Category Archives: Family

Back Issues Online

August 8, 2007 – 3:46 pm

I finally got around to fiddling with some code today to get my old weblog content imported here. You can now read all of my posts back to March 2000 if you have nothing better to do. (I assure you, however, you do.)
In other news, today is Abigail’s 11th birthday! Be sure to lavish love, [...]

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Weekend To-Do: Postmortem

August 6, 2007 – 11:00 am

Post job opening to Craig’s List. Wonder why it doesn’t appear on the site. Email support. Fail to receive reply. Realize one gets what one pays for.
Go to airport to retrieve 15 year old. Scoff at 10 year old’s suggestions that repeated schedule changes are airline’s way of “breaking it to you gently that the [...]

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But How Much Longer Will I Be Able To Outsmart Them?

July 10, 2007 – 6:47 pm

Just got a call from Shawn, a friend of mine. Here’s the reconstructed transcript:

Maggie: Hello?
Shawn: Can I speak with your Dad?
Maggie: Who is it?
Shawn: The President.
Maggie: Daddy! It’s Mister Shawn!
Me: Hello?
Shawn: Dude, your kids are getting too smart.
Me: Yeah, Maggie’s pretty much the brains of this operation.

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Weekend To-Do: Post-Mortem

July 9, 2007 – 7:30 am

Help move refrigerator, stove. Use tools. Narrowly avoid self-inflicted injury.
Help erect fence. Feel disproportionately manly.
Lead music at church. Fail to drive congregants to apostasy or evacuation, in spite of usual fears.
Endure three hundred twenty second continuous day of rain. Wonder who moved San Marcos to England without telling me.
Watch fireworks from semi-illicit perch in top [...]

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The Last Days of the Pool

July 4, 2007 – 7:25 pm

A week ago I posted an advertisement on the San Marcos Craig’s List Free section:
We have an approximately 8,000 gallon above-ground swimming pool in our backyard. It’s shaped like this:
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It has served well for the seven years we’ve been in our house, but since we live only about 5 minutes from the river, we’ve [...]

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A Day with Liam

July 3, 2007 – 10:02 pm

Yesterday was my day to take Liam out on the town for a romp. I had purchased tickets for a special event several weeks before, but had been keeping Liam in suspense until the day of the event.
“What is it Dad?”
“Do you really want to know?”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes!”
“We’re going to go see a 60 [...]

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Weekend To-Do: Post-Mortem

June 25, 2007 – 12:36 pm

Attend wedding rehearsal, play with band while wife and kids dance and run around. Find out after the fact that the bartender cut Liam off after 8 root beers.
Keep kids out far after bedtime, thus ensuring squabbling and grumpiness. Vow never to do so again.
Have breakfast with dear out-of-town friends. Laugh heartily at stories. Spray [...]

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In the Land of Teenage Girls

June 22, 2007 – 1:26 pm

Wednesday night, I found myself at a place I would never have expected to end up as a 37-year old man: in the middle of a screaming crowd of enraptured teenage girls at a Fall Out Boy concert.
How did this strange circumstance come to pass? It all starts with having a teenage daughter. Emily is [...]

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Father’s Day at Mo Ranch

June 18, 2007 – 1:27 pm

We spent this past weekend at Mo Ranch with First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio, which Dad McMains and Lana attend. The church hosts an annual Father’s Day Weekend retreat, which Kathy and Emily and I first joined in very shortly after our wedding. That was exciting for me, as I had grown up attending [...]

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Doggie To-Do

June 12, 2007 – 11:27 pm

Two days ago, I got the e-mail we’d been dreading since posting our found dog ad on Craig’s List:
We have been missing a black & white border collie female.
Her name is Daisy and she is very friendly.
Hope this is her,we are at xxxxx@xxxxxxx.net
Uh oh. We exchanged a few more emails, and it sounded like [...]

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