thane February 27th, 2007
The names of parents have been omitted to protect the guilty
OK, Stuart. What have you got now?
What is it?
Just a outlet-protector. I guess you can’t choke on that.
(Later… sounds of Stuart choking)
OK, I guess you can’t swallow it, but you can still get the whole thing in your mouth and choke on it.
thane February 26th, 2007
Chapter 1: “There was a little girl”
There was a little girl, and she lived with her mom. And she had a play structure.
Chapter 2: “Wood Creepy Girl”
There was a little girl, and she lived. she was big enough to live by herself. She lived in a hut in the middle of the woods, but the woods were creepy and so she never dared go near the woods.
This story is for Daddy.
As told to Mommy by Tory on January 5th, 2007.
thane February 23rd, 2007
Underdog. This is one of the purest, most unsullied image from my childhood. His rhymes, his shoeshines, and Sweet Polly Purebred. There is one episode on YouTube for those of you who were not so blessed. Well, Disney has decided to sully the memory. No rhymes, no polly, a dog who is barely anthropomorphic. Ah well.
thane February 21st, 2007
Today is the beginning of Lent. This year, I have chosen to give up computer games. I don’t usually give things up, but I do on occasion. Now, why on gods green earth would I?
The idea, for me at least, is that of mindfulness. Any time I would play a game, I will (hopefully) think about all of the blessings in my life. I mean, it boggles the mind that I could give up something so trivial and have it feel that I am actually a sacrificing.
thane February 15th, 2007
More like a network cupboard, really. See, Joh uses the Powerbook upstairs, and it has some troubles with reception. Despite everything I tried, it could not keep a connection. The only thing that worked was to move the base station to the first floor and turn on the wireless card in my desktop. So, to make the hash of hardware that puts the tube in our house acceptable in the living room, I had to conceal it. So I drilled a hole in the back of the cupboards and moved all of the hardware into there. Made reception much better for all parties, except me. To keep me happy, I set the router to reboot every 60 seconds if it cannot find my machine. If pappa ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
thane February 15th, 2007
I have a cough.
This is no mamby-pamby cough either. I am hacking up smurfs (as Monroe would say) the size of my right fore-arm (as Karl would say). I don’t think I have pneumonia, but then I didn’t think I had it the last time either. I just thought I broke a rib.
Regardless, when I have a bad cough, there is a home remedy that I turn to. It has arguable medicinal value, but it inarguably makes you feel better.
The 1/2 cup Whiskey Sour.
Take 1/2 cup of lemon juice, add 1/2 cup honey. Microwave on high for 1 minute. Mix until well blended. Nuking it just makes it easier to mix, so do more or less to your liking. Add 3 ice cubes to cool it to a reasonable temperature, and then add 1/2 cup of whiskey. Cheap is fine. I use Potters. Sip it over the course of the evening, and then slam what’s left just before bed. Probably should take an acid blocker, if you are prone to heartburn.
thane February 14th, 2007
Amongst the many wonderful Valentines that were exchanges in and around our family today, the most memorable is probably the one that Henry, the neighbor boy, gave Tory. It is an 8.5×11 sheet of pink paper, with large hearts and paper doilies on it. On it, Henry wrote “I love you”. However, he wrote it “I llF U”. This would be cute, but unmemorable, except that the ll and the F were separated by nearly the entire sheet of paper, and placed next to the other letters. I immediately saw “I’ll F U”. Wendy’s comment was “Our family tends to start a little early.”
thane February 14th, 2007
I think this is awesome. If any of you think that this is a joke, then shame on you. This is a group of people telling the Christian right “Put your money where your mouth is.” Under this law, people who wait more than 3 yeas to have children, like Johanna and I, would have their marriages annulled. For those who don’t know the background, this is a direct response to this ruling (PDF) written by Justice Barbara Madsen about the states Defense of Marriage Act stating (page 6):
Under this standard, DOMA is constitutional because the legislature was entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children’s biological parents. Allowing same-sex couples to marry does not, in the legislature’s view, further these purposes. Accordingly, there is no violation of the privileges and immunities clause.
Personally, I would have the law define a marriage as the birth of a child, causing the two people who made the child to be married. That is even more absurd, and even more in keeping with the Court’s ruling. I hope this passes.
thane February 13th, 2007
It is so strange hearing things we say reflected back at us through Tory. The strange ones we trained her on we are used to. “Where are we going?” “Planet ten!” “When are we leaving?” “Real soon!” It’s the other stuff. Things like “Well that’s just crazy talk.” Recently she started a new one, and I am not sure where it came from. So, we are eating dinner, having a new dish. Tory’s response to said dish is “Well of course ‘Ick’, Daddy!” I am apparently supposed to predict how Tory will respond to new dishes. I guess that is not terribly surprising, but Joh and I have gotten some laughs out of it. “Well of course she’s too tired, Mama.”
I guess you had to be there.