Counting down the days until Beth’s thirteenth birthday with a few reposts from the archives.
Originally posted: Jan 20, 2002, Beth’s age: 4
Title: One tooth, three teeth
Beth is holding three pencil erasers in the shape of teeth. She advises me (in her typically loud fashion, as if from half way across the house) she has three toothes. Recognizing the grammatical error, I explain to her she…
Counting down the days until Beth’s thirteenth birthday with a few reposts from the archives.
Originally posted: Jan 8, 2001, Beth’s age: 3
Title: A Lesson in Physics
Beth, doing her best impersonation of Isaac Newton, reaffirmed a couple of principles this evening: mommy and daddy’s rules are for good reason, and gravity plays no favorites.
Beth was in the family room when she…
Counting down the days until Beth’s thirteenth birthday with a few reposts from the archives.
Originally posted: Aug 6, 2001, Beth’s age: 4
Title: You’re Never Too Young
Beth started the day, like nearly every other weekday, at 6 am. Although this is not out of the ordinary, getting up any earlier than 8 am is inherently bad. I’m neither looking for, nor do I expect any…
Counting down the days until Beth’s thirteenth birthday with a few reposts from the archives.
Originally posted: Feb 26, 2000, Beth’s age: 2.5
Title: Beth Finds New Ways to Get Into Trouble
A little while ago, Beth decided she didn’t like having to wait on us to get her food for her. She is, as you know, a big girl now. She is capable of many things, including opening doors…
I like getting love letters from my health insurance company. They catch me off guard, but it’s nice to know someone is looking out for me.
A few weeks ago I got a letter asking about all of my other insurance carriers after I made a rather large claim. They said they wanted to make sure I could “maximize my coverage.” As they said, “We’re constantly looking for ways…
Sit back and enjoy a good old fashioned rant, boys and girls. Don’t sit too close though. There could be some spittle involved – unintentional, of course.
I’m not going to review my medical history with you now. You’ve either been reading along and know it already, or you haven’t. Maybe you’ll get the basic idea – or not. I’m really not sorry.
The…
My MacBook wasn’t well. Its trackpad wasn’t quite right. I made an appointment with the folks at the local Apple Store to give it a look. That was at four this afternoon. I was expecting I’d have to leave it there – possibly for days.
I did have to leave it there, after talking to the Apple tech and diagnosing the problem (and the solution: replacing the trackpad) –…
Hearings kept me crazy busy yesterday and the medication let me forget about the headache. It was actually a fun morning.
I thrive on days where I can lose myself in work, where time loses meaning. I love working with the Judge assigned to us, an old retired Colonel from the Marines. I enjoy talking to one of the attorneys I work with – a guy who worked as an enviromental engineer with the…
This is one of those posts that sounded profound and original one night at 3am… and a little less so as time passed – that, and less coherent.
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People told me what to expect before, but I always humored them. I’m not stupid. I’d see this thing coming way before it happened to me. I wouldn’t be so easily fooled.
Then a few nights ago it happened…
For the sake of this post, we’ll call her Lisa. We call her Lisa the rest of the time too, but I love the cloak and dagger stuff. Though, I suppose if I follow the metaphor through, I’ve removed the cloak and sunk the dagger.
Jeez, I must be a terrible brother!
Well, since she’s already uncloaked, let me tell you a little more about my baby sister. She follows the pattern set by…