Category: Family
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 [...]
Life snippets
August 31st, 2010, No Comments
#1: Dreams of a (almost) 4-year-old Yesterday, Terah had something going on in the evening, so it was just Jacob, Oliver, and me. Due to how the logistics worked out, she brought them to the office after work and I took them from there. We went to the post office, pharmacy, and a restaurant. Jacob [...]
Family updates
August 16th, 2010, 1 Comment
As you probably know from reading my recent blog posts, we spent a week in New York City. Despite some behavior issues from Jacob, it was a good trip. Oliver took his first unassisted step in our hotel room there. As I wrote, the boys both loved the subway. I didn’t have as much time [...]
A Debconf Thanks
August 11th, 2010, No Comments
There was something at Debconf10 in NYC that I owe a huge thank-you to the entire community for. I was completely surprised at how many people made a point to say hi to me, comment that they liked reading about my blog, and encouraged me to keep posting. It was dozens for sure. I had [...]
Really Dark Blue
August 5th, 2010, 3 Comments
As we were walking home tonight, Jacob started singing, over and over: Really dark blue, really dark blue, really dark blue… The tune changed a bit, but the words didn’t. Terah and I wondered what was really dark blue, until finally we heard: Really dark blue, really dark blue, really dark blue sky. Really dark [...]
The Best Place of Ever
August 1st, 2010, 5 Comments
Jacob and Oliver have enjoyed our recent train trip, and our stay, from Kansas to New York City for Debconf. All told, that’s a 40-hour trip, including the layover in Chicago. When we got on the train, in the middle of the night as usual, Jacob couldn’t stop chattering about how “great”, “fun”, and “exciting” [...]
Once, We Were Makers
July 21st, 2010, 16 Comments
I saw an article on Wired today: The Lost Tribes of RadioShack. It is well worth the read even if you’re not into electronics. A key quote: [H]is shop is a lone outpost; in a single generation, the American who built, repaired, and tinkered with technology has evolved into an entirely new species: the American [...]
