Upon reaching a certain age, one may leave behind certain childish things… …but not all childish things. PFFFFFFFT!!!!!

Among other things* this weekend, we took a trip (at my son’s urging) to the Science Museum of Virginia, which is twenty minutes from my driveway (and has been as long as I’ve lived here), but I’d never managed to visit before. It was a nice day out for the family; we played with a […]

Posed for a pre-race photo, here are this year’s entries for the cub scout pinewood derby: Three of us built entries this year. From left to right, Mary’s mouse racer, Andrew’s flaming car, and my last-minute Conestoga wagon. Hopefully, we’ll do well.

…I’ll let this guy do it: Happy Birthday, My Dear!

With much fanfare and Bravado, today, the Institute for the Study of Random Stuff Told to Chuck on the Phone during his Lunch Break received the results of a study which will, once and for all, settle a long-standing, heated debate in the disciplines of temporal physics and autovisual transmission which has raged between experts […]

Lots snow, at least for Virginia, this weekend. No worries, really, given some last minute scheduling changes, we didn’t have to be anywhere. This was fine since a couple of us were kind of sidelined with nagging colds. Much sledding and driveway shovelling was done, many fresh-baked cookies and bowls of homemade chicken corn soup […]

As I was walking in Old Town last night, I found myself getting a little choked up every time somebody walking a dog passed by; and in NoVA, there are a LOT of dogs walking (Alexandria, for example, has more specially-designated “dog” parks than it does elementary schools) on any given evening. It seems strange […]

Fifteen years is a pretty good run, isn’t it? We’ll miss you, Pup.

After FINALLY closing a long-standing action item Saturday morning (Hoo-Effing-Ray!), The whole lot of us ventured across town to hang out at the VA Comicon for a few hours and rub elbows (sometimes literally, given the crowds) with fans, creators, and geeks of all stripes. This weekend’s show was a much larger than the usual […]

…by Friday evening, I’d come to the conclusion that the best remedy for lingering sinus malaise was to just get past it and do something else… In an effort to satiate our bibliophilic tendencies, and because we had some errands in that part of the world anyway, the five of us packed into the family […]