Last weekend I had asked the boys to pick up their wooden blocks and trains so I could vacuum their play room. They did and all was good. This weekend I was picking up a few things in there so I could vacuum and I noticed a series of dents in the wall. Apparently they had cleaned up by tossing the blocks into their boxes, many of them hitting ( Read more... )

DS2 has decided to show us his puppy side today. First, I sat down with DS1 to go over his homework assignment and DS2 comes in, stops, looks around, then peaks under DS1's rug. He then dropped it back and stood on the spot where he looked. He had some time previously hidden astra's cloth tape measure under there and seemed to be checking to ( Read more... )

Me: (quiet grumble)
DS2 (busy playing with trains): It crash?
Me: Yeah.
DS2: The computer?
Me: No, just a program.

Beats me how he translated a quiet grumble into knowing what happened. Not like I ever experience many crashes on my computer, except this one bug when using emacs remotely over ssh. (quiet grumble)

DS2's favorite color has recently migrated from orange to green. DS1's favorite color has been red for nearly forever. Both are generally pretty good when going grocery shopping. Today was interesting, though ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago my parents came down to help with a couple of projects around the house that are now complete ( Read more... )

I voted this morning, barely ( Read more... )

Over the weekend we started painting the living room/dining room/foyer area that is all connected. It was painted three different shades of yellow, not corresponding to the borders of the different rooms. Also various other projects left areas that needed to be painted, so things needed to painted. Still have the foyer area to go ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd post an update on projects I've done around the house.

( lots of projects )

No real content, just experimenting with posting from emacs using ljupdate.el from ljupdate.

As of today I've been working for my company for 10 years. :-)