Sometimes the kids crack me up.  This evening Nicole was having some sort of argument with Beth; I was in another rooms, so I don’t know the reason or what specifically the problem was; I just heard the yelling.  Apparently Nicole was upset enough to write a note and, for reasons only her little brain can comprehend, try to blame it on Owen.

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We finally got the security cameras installed on our house!  They brought a very skinny little installer dude to slither up into the small attic crawl space to run the wires.  The cameras are hard-wired to the TV in our bedroom and also to a router in our office, so that we can view the images from anywhere on the Internet.  Pretty cool.

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Catching up a bit since it’s been forever since I’ve updated here.  Facebook has really put a dent in my blogging…  Anyway, so we returned from our cruise last Sunday.  We travelled on Holland America and I don’t think I would go with them again.  The service on the ship was only so-so, which doesn’t cut it when you expect really top notch service ( Read more... )

Here are Owen and Nicole’s 2009 school and Sharks football/cheerleading photos:


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Here is Nicole's big performance from this morning. She is the second in line at the beginning and the one being lifted in the air at the end.

This morning just before our last football game of the season, I finally got my photo with the team:


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Beth’s mom bought me something very cool last weekend: The Beertender!  Do you remember way back when, the late night commercials for a gadget called the Beermeister?  It was a fridge in which you put a keg of beer and it had a tap on the top of it.  The Beertender is a similar, though smaller, gadget.

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I thought I’d tell the tale of my trip home that started on Friday, because it was one of the worst flying experiences I’ve had.  Sadly, almost none of it needed to be so lousy were it not for a mix of random unfortunate circumstances and truly awful airline employees.  I had flown up to Buffalo earlier in the week for some meetings and I since ( Read more... )

Owen had a football game yesterday morning.  It didn’t go well.  The boys are now 1-4 and they really don’t need to be.  If they’d play in the games the way we practice, they’d be a lot more successful.  We made a ton of dumb mistakes in the game and I probably yelled at them more than I should have.  At some point, the players are just going to ( Read more... )

I’ve been updating Facebook regularly, but not this blog.  I’ll try to get better about that.

I just got back from a business trip to Buffalo late Friday night.  I was there all week for meetings at the start of a huge new project I’m working on.  Actually, this project is so big that I’ll be working on it full time for the next year or so and ( Read more... )