I know I just took a new job two months ago, but sometimes opportunity knocks. Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group has offered me a job as a Manufacturing Prototyping - Systems Integration Engineer. It's a terrific job offer, and I'm thrilled to have it. I start just after the first of the new year ( Read more... )

Last week I mentioned Sidekick Quests to all y'all. This week, my oldest son made a contribution to his Fiendish Fan-Made Fridays. If you have a kid in the 4-10 age bracket, I encourage you to print out a form and send it in to James. Alex had a blast.

I'd like to recommend a webcomic to y'all: Sidekick Quests! It's the story of a group of adventurers, only they're all "real" adventurers sidekicks. It's fun, it's straightforward, it's kid-friendly, and the artwork's terrific ( Read more... )

American politics makes much more sense after the fourth or fifth beer.

I got a little money for my birthday and decided to use it to get one of these. It's now framed and on the wall of my game room downstairs. It's the first thing you see when you walk into the room.

"Mom, I want do some math."

"Well, I need to get some counters for you to do counting with."

[Dad disappears, reappears momentarily.]


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... are you going to watch the debate tonight?

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Weird Al sums up how I feel about spending the night with the two Presidential aspirants.

Overheard tonight, while getting ready to put dinner on the table:

"Want to put a little Sambal Oelek in the kids' milk tonight?"

Every once in a while I'm given to think about how each of my kids is different. It seems like my daughter, for instance, is always happy. Ferinstance:


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After seven months of banging my head against closed doors, I've found employment. Carlisle Construction Materials is opening a new plant in Puyallup, and they've hired me to be a QC Technician. We'll be starting out making Hunter Panels, and then opening an Insulfoam line, and moving on to the manufacture of Premier SIPSI start in mid-October, ( Read more... )