So, twelve years. I’ll take it. I shall always be eternally grateful my best friend agreed to this arrangement so many years ago, and that she continues to put up with me and all my quirks. Especially those quirks that cropped up this year. Not much else to say, really, except “thanks.” And this little […]

We started Saturday with a nice family bike ride to the local farmer’s market to pick up some fresh vegetables – eggplant, sweet corn, basil, and a couple of other bits. Led to some good meals for the weekend, though next time, with the eggplant, i’m going to season italian, but cook asian. A little […]

Long-time readers of this space are probably aware of my general cynicism toward broadcast media, mostly to do with the fact that the “news” isn’t really much about disseminating useful information than about selling advertising slots, and with vast swaths of the american public, the most effective ways of raising ratings (to get eyeballs on […]

Happy Birthday, kid. Enjoy the eleventh.

Yes, it’s that fateful Friday every year where I get to start resenting my kids because they don’t have to get up early every Monday through Friday for a couple of months, and I still do… THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL™!!! Oh well, nothing to be done about it. Still, it’s cool another year’s gone […]

Not a terrible weekend; took an extra day, got a bunch of stuff done a day early, which was nice, because of all the end-of-year Girl Scout activites going on. Also, thanks to the newly-arrived car bike rack, we got a few good hours of trail riding in at the local park. Very nice. Saw […]

I don’t feel especially guilty spending part of my tax return on a huge HDTV (at a fraction of the price listed on the link; I’m not stupid) and turning my living room, which also got a refresher with some paint and new shelves which really opens up the space, into a screening room to […]

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 […]

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 […]

I love living in the future. Seriously, lag-free video conferencing with my wife and kids who are sitting over 100 miles away is a very, very cool thing. …now, to get working on those warrior robots.