The kid, gomijacogeo, and I were driving home from dinner last night ( Read more... )

“Reading is my favorite thing in the world.”
“I understand; I wish I could read as much as you do.”
“You like to read? Why don’t you?”
“Well, when you’re around, you keep me pretty busy.”
“You should read! On the weekend! You should read at least 10 minutes a day!”

Three years ago, it took three geeks to help me with a computer problem. But times change, life gets more complicated, and now it takes five ( Read more... )

That was a very small increment! The kid's second top center incisor (the left one) came out just after lunch--to much general surprise--while she was jumping up and down in the kitchen (as she is wont to do).

I've had to get used to a second new smile in 24 hours! She looks so much older.....

The kid just lost her first top tooth. The change to her appearance is quite startling--possibly even more than when she lost her first tooth, just about a year ago.

For an excellent documentary about gap-toothed seven-year-old smiles, I could not more highly recommend the Up Series. I saw what must have been "28 Up" with frabbish years ago. I remember ( Read more... )

Tonight the kid articulated an intuitive grasp of human sleep cycles:

“When I [first] go to sleep, I get little dream previews. Then at 5 [in the morning] I start crazy dreaming, and when the alarm goes off [at 6:45am] I don’t want to get up--five more minutes!”

Thanks to everyone for your kind offers! I had also posted on the local Mothers Club list, offering to buy a used one for a modest fee, and immediately got three offers of free ones. Conveniently, the kid invited the daughter of one of those mothers to her birthday party tomorrow, so I should be good, especially if one of the other party guests ( Read more... )

Why is it that I can buy a clock radio--the electronic device owned by every teenager in America in the 1970s--for $4.99, yet I cannot buy that 1980s must-have device--the VCR--for less than $150 ( Read more... )

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