Category: Family
A Proud Dad
March 16th, 2011, 10 Comments
I saw this on my computer screen the other day, and I’ve got to say it really warmed my heart. I’ll explain below if it doesn’t provoke that reaction for you. So here’s why that made me happy. Well for one, it was the first time Jacob had left stuff on my computer that I [...]
Lots of Snow, Being Stuck, and Fun
February 13th, 2011, No Comments
Those of you that watch my twitter know that we got dumped on with snow recently. The final estimate reported by local papers is 17 to 19 inches. That’s my car. You might understand why I went home at 1PM Tuesday and worked from home the rest of the afternoon. The county didn’t get the [...]
24 hours with Jacob
January 16th, 2011, 2 Comments
Friday, I wrote about the train trip Jacob and I were planning to take. Here’s the story about it. Friday night, Jacob was super excited. He was running around the house, talking about trains. I had him pack his own backpack with toys this time, which were — you guessed it — trains. Plus train [...]
Jacob & Dad & Trains
January 14th, 2011, 3 Comments
Back in July, our family took a train trip from Kansas to New York for Debconf10. And then in September, we went to Indiana. The only train service from here leaves at about 3AM in both directions. So starting about November, Jacob started asking me, “Dad, will you wake me up in the middle of [...]
Christmas Gatherings, a Piano, and a Pickup
December 27th, 2010, 4 Comments
Perhaps I am not very imaginative. Or perhaps insufficiently adventurous. But when I woke up today, a day that would actually get a little bit above freezing, I didn’t have a thought of riding without a coat in the bed of a pickup. Nor did I expect to be involved with moving a piano. I [...]
Jacob: 4 Years Old, and Troubleshooting PCs
December 12th, 2010, 2 Comments
Back in April, I wrote about Jacob and I building his first computer together and how it’s running just the Linux command-line interface — no graphics at all. And he loves it. Well, as is often the case with him, his interest in various things waxes and wanes over time. He hadn’t spent much time [...]
A Switchbox and a Very Happy 4-Year-Old
December 6th, 2010, 18 Comments
This all started this summer. My parents have some dimmer switches in their house, which Jacob loves. He also enjoyed turning their lights on an off rapidly to make them flash. Since we have CFLs almost exclusively, we have no dimmer switches, and we don’t permit making the lights flash. (This hurts the lifespan of [...]
Baby Yoda
November 15th, 2010, 3 Comments
Shifting gears from serious tractor injury stuff to the more humorous… We’re all used to seeing Yoda 900 years old. I’ve noticed over the past couple of months that Oliver, while eating supper, seems to resemble a 1-year-old Yoda. So I got out my camera one evening, with the results below: Or this “what’s so [...]
We’re All Home
November 9th, 2010, 4 Comments
I wrote yesterday about our scare with Jacob. It’s been quite the day. Before I go into it, I want to say thank you to all the many of you that have sent comments and support our way. Terah and I haven’t had the chance to reply to many of them, but we have read [...]
Labor Day with Jacob and Oliver
September 7th, 2010, No Comments
Yesterday started out with Jacob and me going to a men/boys breakfast organized by my great uncle and some others. He’s in his 80s and this is probably his last year doing this. It was out in the woods by the Little Arkansas River. They cooked up bacon, sausage, and eggs and it was a [...]
