The feline part of the family has been asking to come out and play. So far it has been shut into one (large) room to get adjusted to the new place. Given the repeated demands to exit recently, I figured it was time. (Plus the piles of boxes are lower and safer ( Read more... )

Busy day, hard work, good outcomes ( Read more... )

We're all in crazytime, so I thought, maybe I should post here so I can give longer updates than FB. Even maybe a photo one in a while. I'm not publicizing the posts until I find out whether I am actually writing regularly, but hi to family and friends who left some kind of notification doodad running for the last 5 years and are seeing this ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in almost a year. Uh, sorry about that ( Read more... )

The last time I bought shoes for my children, in the spring of 2009, the room-to-grow sizes were 1 (Bert) and 3 (Ernie). Ernie got size 4 water shoes since the store was out of 3s, and the 4s were able to stay on but clearly too long ( Read more... )

I, um, haven't posted a lot recently. By "recently" I mean "since July ( Read more... )

Ernie has Molluscum Contagiosum! I think that means that she can cast a spell that causes her enemies to break out in bivalves. Or it means she is a contagious mollusc. Or maybe that we can harvest scallops from her skin, but if we eat them, we too will become Mollucsi Contagiosi.

Or you could look it up on Wikipedia or MayoClinic.com. But that's ( Read more... )

The Lego Store was well-enjoyed by the kids, but their website LIED. They don't have a play area. Loserjerks. The children were much taken with the large, superexpensive Star Wars kits (the Death Star especially, $400). They came home with a small rebel speeder and a small clone army walker, which gives them some rebel people and some storm trooper ( Read more... )

This is just... well, it's weird. And awesome.

Shotgun-Toting Sarah Palin Versus Zombie Ayn Rand

New kitty's name is Kepler.

He's a LOLcat (thanks for the tv-tropes link, Ebongreen!) too.


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