So I just got rejected by Facebook.  I tried to sign up, more or less to see who they would suggest to me as friends, since p_roqueforti had done it and said I had to try it too, that Facebook found Dale.  Yeah, that Dale ( Read more... )

I just looked at my last entry and realized it's been quite some time since I posted.  We've been busy with sickness and teething.  In the last month, various members of our household have had the flu, colds, a stomach virus, teething, conjunctivitis, and a sinus infection.  March has not been easy.

Nora is starting to get serious about walking.   ( Read more... )

I have a job ( Read more... )

p_roqueforti and I have been making beer the last couple years.  Our latest project was the bourbon barrel ale kit from Midwest Homebrewing and Winemaking Supplies.

It's a dark ale aged for several months with oak cubes that have been soaked in bourbon.  It turned out really well - oaky and smoky with notes of bourbon.  This in spite of us leaving ( Read more... )

Can has meme. Can has fancy book.
From just about everybody, and only because I actually have a book on my desk for once (books do not live on the desk. They live on the shelves, or the floor by the bed, or the coffee table, all things far from the desk):

1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post ( Read more... )

My nephew Sam and his friend have started making short movies and putting them on YouTube.  I may be biased, but I thought this one was pretty clever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrFFmP9iH4

As part of my severance package, I have this consutling company teaching me how to find a job.  They keep talking about the "hidden" job market.

It got me going down this whole road of imagining ads for motivated self-starters who aren't afraid of blood to handle daytime activities for local vampires.  Or detail-oriented professionals to handle  ( Read more... )

We bought Nora a sippy cup a couple weeks ago.  She insists on holding it in one hand while eating.  She periodically chews on the spout, but doesn't tip the cup far enough to get any water.  Whenever I take the cup from her to hold it at an angle where she'll get some water, she gets this "Mom, I know what I'm doing" look and takes the cup back ( Read more... )

We Nilssons had a good Christmas.  Much food was eaten, children did funny and cute things, and gifts were exchanged.  Ben came home from my family's Christmas with several pounds of sausage - my dad's entry in the  gift exchange, while I came home with kitchen gadgets ( Read more... )

For my family's Christmas gift exchange, I have to bring a generic women's gift.  We randomly get a gift to open, then play dice, stealing the gifts back and forth until a timer sounds.

Being that I got laid off, I decided to make some jewelry instead of buying a gift.  I couldn't figure out something nifty from what's in my big box of leftover ( Read more... )