This has been a fairly quiet summer for us. We’ve had no huge adventures, as we’ve recently had to replace both a minivan and our home HVAC system, leaving us with very little money for substantial trips. I have, however, had the chance to take each of our children out for a day on the [...]
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Posted 30 July 2010
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Kathy and I spent this past weekend down in San Antonio to celebrate our 15th anniversary. We had considered traveling farther afield in recognition of the significance of the milestone, but after recently replacing both our van and our home’s air conditioning system, we decided that something more modest would be in order. Since we [...]
About a week and a half ago, Abigail, Liam and I got together with their friends Ryan and Eleen, my cohort Jason Young, and my brother Chris for another round of GURPS, the tabletop roleplaying game we’ve been enjoying lately. I had been planning to run an adventure in a Science Fiction setting this time [...]
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Posted 30 March 2010
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When I was 12 years old, I was not a vegetable eater. This was a problem, because my dad and his wife were on the Pritikin diet at the time. For those of you not familiar with this diet, it allows you to eat anything at all, as long as it doesn’t taste good. Thus, [...]
Over the weekend I celebrated my 40th birthday along with a pile of family and friends. The party was terrific — everything I had hoped that it would be and more. Thanks to all who attended and helped to make it such a delightful, memorable time! I had a magnificent surprise shortly after the party [...]
Liam has continued to show interest in creating computer games. His latest effort is Ghost Killer, a straightforward game where your sole job is to avoid the bullets descending from the top of the screen. He created it (with a little help, though much less than for Cat Maze) in Scratch, MIT’s terrific graphic programming [...]
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Posted 26 November 2009
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Hi folks! We’re wrapping up our first week of back-to-school now. Highlights so far have included a badly mangled toe (Abigail), a badly ripped pair of shorts (Liam), and a badly stained neck (Maggie). In spite of these bits of trauma, everyone seems to be settling back into the rhythms of academe without too much [...]
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Posted 28 August 2009
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Hi Folks! I’ve been a lousy blogger/family chronicler lately. As a partial and entirely inadequate penance for my laxity, here’s a high-level overview of some of what’s been up lately: The end of school has come and gone, and we’re a third of the way through summer. The kids have been enjoying their break from [...]
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Posted 09 July 2009
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Emily’s birthday is coming up, and true to her artistic nature, she has created a pictorial gift-giving guide:
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Posted 29 April 2009
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One of my favorite things about being a parent is those sterling moments when I suddenly realize that one of the kids has gone beyond me and done something of their own accord that I didn’t prompt or of which I’m not even capable. Emily‘s artwork has been one of those things for me for [...]
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Posted 21 December 2008
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