I’ve been listing the games I’ve finished on the left, but that list was getting a bit long (imagine that!) so you can find a complete version here. You know, if you’re unbelievably bored and have absolutely nothing to do and want to know how I spent the remainder of my life on earth… when [...]
…like Donkey Kong. Last Friday morning I couldn’t exit the shower because I had this incredibly deep sense of foreboding. Turns out I was right. The day was pretty lousy, I got sick (still am, but not as bad as Saturday and Sunday), and we had an unexpected surprise. For my suffering, I was rewarded [...]
Today is Lisa’s first day of independence. The sparkle is back. I presume after dropping Nora off she’s going to run through some brick walls, redo our roof and go rock climbing without safety gear. After that, she’ll probably do the laundry and gush over that doofus Jason being in ‘her pictures’. On the plus [...]
Good dad: going for walks with Nora. I’m glad she still doesn’t know Dora, Sesame Street, Blues Clues, et. al., nor does she show any interest in TV except for watching videos we take of her. I love that she loves the outdoors. I grew up playing outside constantly (when there weren’t chores, of course). [...]
I don’t like summer. Or, more specifically, I don’t like the intense heat of summer. Every time we go to Lisa’s parents’ house or most recently Canada it’s striking how much nicer summer days are there as opposed to here. The flipside is that winters here aren’t hard at all hard. There are minor annoyances [...]
The battery arrived from Hong Kong. I quickly installed it and was greeted with the Dell boot up screen and… nothing. The hard drive spun and spun and spun… for an hour. It’s likely that it wasn’t the battery that went, but the motherboard. I lack the tools and soldiering skills to disassemble it further, [...]
Like the Olympics and Leap Year, every election year liberals threaten to move North if “X” doesn’t get elected. I don’t know how many actually made good on that threat; all I know is, if Obama doesn’t get elected, I’m moving to Canada. (I kid.) This was our little family’s first trip north of the [...]