‘Twas a weekend, I guess. Notable, for one or two things at least. First, we took in a ball game, watching the new minor league team in town, the Flying Squirrels, defeat the Reading Phillies 2-1 on Friday night. There’s a contradition that I don’t quite understand at work here: I’m bored to tears watching […]

Those three letters in quotes above form what’s probably the best word to describe my general reaction toward the week. Others might be “down”, “ugh”, “damnit” and “don’t want to get out of bed today”. Yep, been one of those kind of weeks. “Riot Van” – The Arctic Monkeys “Clean” – Pete Yorn & Scarlett […]

The pack of teabaggers in the hotel lobby this morning reminded me that today is tax day. They’re apparently heading out on the Mall today to bitch about having to pay their share for roads, bridges, police officers and firefighters and all those other aspects of civilization they use every day that taxes, y’know, pay […]

As I’d mentioned previously, and did a bit of twittering about in theater, the family spent the weekend at ravencon, which politely decided to set itself up about 20 minutes from my front door this year. This was the first year doing the whole weekend (last year, we did a spur-of-the-moment Friday night drop-in), so […]

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn Here’s the latest neat little bit of Colleen’s crafting; a crochet Cthulhu! Who’d have thought the Great Old Ones were so cuddly?

The whole household is terribly excited about this weekend’s RavenCon coming to town; three days of hanging out with like-minded science fiction and fantasy fans, playing games, meeting authors and creators, and generally discovering new things to get excited about. This morning I got the email confirming our registration, and late last week the schedule […]

Having been a parent for more than a decade now, I feel that I’m at least a little bit qualified to talk about trends in parenting; I can’t say that as parents, my spouse and I have gotten everything right (far from it), but we’ve had enough practice over the course of three kids to […]

TheRAM arrived today; just swapped it out with the old chips. Twice as much, and a much faster transfer rate. I think my login time (password to desktop) is down under 10 seconds now; boot-up is under half-a-minute. I just opened up an 800 line openoffice spreadsheet in like four seconds…seriously, this thing is flying […]

I spent the evening on phase one of my campaign to make a few cheap tweaks to the laptop so I can keep it going another couple of years, dropping in a new, huge hard drive, installing Ubuntu 10.4 beta 1, and re-loading all my important old data (cheap usb hard drive enclosures are a […]

The DC area was filled with families of tourists and kids on spring break, all marvelling at dogwoods in Old Town and thinking they’re cherry blossoms. The metro was way too darned crowded. But, that’s spring in Our Nation’s Capital and the surrounding environs. Here’s a little bit of the soundtrack of my week: “Little […]