My wife: "Chopin used a lot of C# minor."

Me: "No one should ever use C# minor. Well, it worked well for Chopin's stuff since his stuff was all weird and edgy and depressing. He was like 19th century emo!"

... it's "ignorant" to ban gay marriage. Somehow I strongly doubt it's possible to educate someone on the topic via comments on Facetube.

I notice gas prices are on the rise again. Which drives me buggy, especially as summer isn't even here yet. I like cars as much as most people (probably better than many, being an enthusiast, though I perhaps get weary of driving much sooner than some), but I see no point in spending unnecessary amounts of money on them, which includes continuing ( Read more... )

Number one fun thing to do after clearing about 3-4" of snow from the driveway for the third time in about 10 hours: take your lightweight sedan with NO trunk ballast (removed during the warm spell) and "High Performance All Season" tyres, and try to drive it around the block. Yep, fun stuff. I did make it back without assistance (barely), though ( Read more... )

Been trying to discover what normal-income people do to keep their kids entertained during the week and provided with suitable levels of constructive exercise and interaction with other kids. Things I hear or read about typically either cost a lot, are well beyond a comfortable distance away, or both (not that the two are that different anyway ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took bad pictures of David standing at the front of the church auditorium wearing a funny robe. The idea was that the boys from the "threes and fours" Sunday school groups would be shepherds for the church Christmas presentation, and preferably sing Jesus Loves Me in the process. We didn't get him to sing, but Genevieve did convince ( Read more... )

He's also developed an ovenight addiction to headphones, as you can see. Still content to rely on Dad to actually work the tonearm, though. (Thankfully!)


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So my wife has been talking again about trying to get a graduate degree at some point. I thought it was rather nuts at first, she having long ago achieved that holy grail of jobness for someone who studied sciencey junk but isn't afraid of wrenches, but she's managed to clarify to me that further pursuits in the direction of studiousness could end ( Read more... )

Got an interesting insert in the church bulletin on Sunday, rather relevant to Father's Day, an article called "A Requiem for Friendship" by someone called Anthony Esolen. Made a lot of interesting points about reasons why men aren't able (or don't allow themselves) to form close friendships these days - basically, if it doesn't involve football, ( Read more... )

I learned something interesting today. Some random person you offered stuff to on Freecycle can't conveniently contact you if you transpose two digits of your phone number! "2090" != "0290". Still surprised they didn't stop by anyway, but I sent another e-mail correcting the mistake, so I guess I'll either hear back again or I won't ( Read more... )