Happy Black Friday Eve!I understand we used to be thankful for things other than low low prices and artificial scarcity, but hey, lookit those deals!Off spending time with family. See you on the flip side.
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In the Armory
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We’ll Be Back
August 2, 2009 – 10:38 pm
Information Overload, Kids’ Book Edition
March 31, 2009 – 8:51 am
Emogency!
December 17, 2008 – 8:05 am
Today’s neologism: emogency. When you’re so overwhelmed that only listening to Dashboard Confessional on repeat will make you feel better.
I went googling to see who else used the word, and I discovered an emogency on deviantART and one on MySpace. The MySpace Emogency is Canadian. His two songs are him singing while he plays his [...]
Another Wii Christmas
November 17, 2008 – 10:17 pm
Last Christmas, through a series of unlikely events, we got a Wii. The house rejoiced over a new gaming system.
Over the past year, we’ve played Mario Kart, Lego Indiana Jones and about a million games of bowling and tennis. We weren’t letting it collect dust by any means but I had no idea we [...]
What Would George W. “Lame Duck” Bush Nickname You?
November 4, 2008 – 10:39 am
We were gone last week to Arkansas to hear my brother Andrew perform at Ouachita Baptist University, our alma mater, where he played John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano and taught a class about Cage. Cage’s prepared piano pieces: where artsy music meets Home Depot’s hardware aisle.
Andrew was nice enough to let me [...]
Death to Zima
October 20, 2008 – 4:45 pm
I had a friend in grad school who eventually left physics behind to become a brewmaster. He was a fan of beer, which put him in the same league as, oh, say, Wrigley Field spectators, but he backed that up with a lot of knowledge about beer. He also hated Zima, with a passion and [...]
Little Miss Soccer
August 23, 2008 – 10:37 am
Today was Eli’s first soccer game, which, in his under-five league, means all the kids bunch up around the ball except for the ones whose attention has wandered elsewhere.
All the kids except for this one girl on the opposing team who must have been 8 or 9. She could dribble the ball with either foot, [...]
Frying Pans, Fire, You Know the Drill
August 21, 2008 – 10:28 pm
I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed today. I realized this afternoon that I have about 17 frying pans in the fire and I’m trying to keep my hair from burning as well.
School has started back and I always forget that, even for pre-school aged children, the wheel starts turning again come fall. Eli and Liza [...]
