I love David and I really hope he got his snail. (click for video)

I know! I’m terrible! I’ve neglected you once again. You know, I used to look at dogs and think they had it made. Man, if I could be a dog, that would be the life. All they do is lay around the house and sleep until someone feeds them and then they get up, eat, [...]

Jacob sent me the AOLer Translator. Just for kicks I decided to translate an excerpt from my blog. Here’s the original: When I was young I romanticized everything. Everything was a grand adventure and something wonderful to be discovered, even the tedium I didn’t want. I don’t do that so much anymore. These days the [...]

If you’ll remember correctly, and I’m sure you will, last year about this time we went to the Northwest Washington Fair. It was great fun and we decided to give it another go. It was different this time though because last year the boys were but a wee 11 and 12 years old. This meant [...]

matt and i took the boys to the drive-in the other night. it was exactly as i remembered it and not at all as i remembered it. there was a big, open space with cars everywhere and a big screen and a concession stand and the voices came out of our car radio. well, the [...]

as the weather has been so beautiful lately, we decided to walk down to the lake for a bit of fresh air tonight. when we got there, we found this little guy: he’s cute, right? but he was alone. there were no other ducks. he was also very hungry. he kept trying to eat trash [...]

the weather was beautiful today. warm and sunny with just the slightest breeze. matt & i went to the tulip festival and of course i took my camera. i played around with the macro & telephoto lens he got me for my birthday. you should totally go check out my gallery. i mean, if you [...]

tonight i had a house full of boys. five of them. youngest just turned 5 and the oldest just turned 12. let me tell you: you haven’t lived. my brother is getting married, right? right. i know! i’m surprised too. that someone would even want to share a car ride with him, much less a [...]

there are so many funny, witty, creative, stupid people out there. and, in case you’re wondering, if you didn’t know…the best way to clean the LCD screen on a notebook can be learned below. sort of. i googled. and honest to god, i’m not kidding or embellishing, this is an exact c&p of what i [...]

tonight was the event of our annual office christmas party. i don’t technically know if i’m allowed to call it a christmas party still. we looked warily at one another and said, “happy chr-holi-chri-kwanz-…i’m going to go with holiday! happy holidays!” and then the other person let out a sigh of relief. happy the decision [...]