Archive for August, 2006
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Wife is a saint! Daughter's party is ended, and Wife is going to heaven as a result. The reason for this beatification? The National Weather Service accurately predicted rain for the duration of the party. (Sure, NOW they're right!)
The party began at 6pm on Saturday. 8 girls arrived, all ...
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Daughter celebrated her 9th birthday a few weeks ago, but because we were away, we are holding the party today.
It's a sleep-over, and there are currently eight screaming 9-year old girls in my bedroom having a pillow fight.
If I don't survive, I wish for my blogs to be preserved ...
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
I ask myself this question regularly. I ask because blogging:
consumes significant amounts of time, in the following ways;
planning what to blog;
blogging;
editing blogs;
maintaining the blog;
responding to comments and feedback;
reading other blogs (which is necessary research for the conscientious);
puts my privacy, and that of my family at risk;
requires an introspection that is ...
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
I am an only child. No big deal, but it definitely has an impact on how you live your life, especially if you have to share a house.
I suppose the issue is compounded by the fact that I was an only child in a divorced family. Eternally Depressed Grandmother and ...
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Tomorrow is Son's birthday.
What he wants is video games. He always wants video games. The problem is, I can't find video games that meet my standards.
The most popular video games are all 'melee' games, in which you shoot everything that comes your way. The most vivid demonstrations are games like ...
Posted in Father-Son, Rants/Opinions | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 18th, 2006
My dad came for a visit this weekend.
A visit from him is always interesting, because he built the addition on our house, and actually lived there part time for a year and a half. It makes you feel as if he's evaluating the way you maintain the house when he ...
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Son and Daughter have both been enrolled in a reading program this summer.
They are not struggling readers, but they do have trouble with notes and following directions. It was our thought, since the vendor claims to have a special way of teaching children to take notes, that they may ...
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Monday, August 14th, 2006
Updated on November 21, 2006:
I've been writing about family on my other blog, and I though I might like to keep a separate place for the family-related things. A place where I could extol the virtues of fatherhood. A place where I could talk about ancient history. A place to ...
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