Mary had a great time with the sleepover…pizza, innocent (thank god) nine-year old girl gossip about boys, and staying up way too late. And, since it’s our house, I DM’d a session of Faery’s Tale (a very rules-light pen & paper RPG aimed at younger kids) for the girls, who had lots of fun pretending […]

We spent the morning at “Community Day” at the kids’ elementary school…parades, pizza, wooden building blocks, and lots of kids that weren’t mine. That, however, is done and over with now. School’s out for summer. We’re now the parents of a fourth grader and a first grader. Now, I just need to survive the little […]

I had a great time on Monday night, no question. However, being up that late, given how I’ve been sleeping the last week and a half, probably wasn’t the best thing for me. I went to bed early last night, though it was still a chore to pull myself out of bed this morning. One […]

It took me three and a half hours to drive to DC this morning. I-95 was pretty much a parking lot from Fredericksburg to the mixing bowl in Springfield. A very wet parking lot (thankfully, I was going slow the whole time – I’ve got that flakey braked Stratus again). I had a lot of […]

Andrew and I caught a matinee of Iron Man on Friday afternoon…afterwards, he was telling everyone he met, in breathless excitement, how cool it was, and what his favorite part was. It was cute. Of course, when I threw a mic in front of him to record his excitement; he clammed up. Colleen managed to […]

First, let me direct your attention to the photo gallery, where I added a handful of shots from Andrew’s baseball game on Saturday. Shots taken with something other than a cell phone camera, even. Second, although this news a bit old, and we filled most everyone in already, Yes, one of the tornadoes in Virginia […]

…most of the time, such as here, where she got a really, really, great grade on her poster/presentation on Independence Day: Note the first element, “Appropriate Dress”. This meant that Mary had to dress as her topic. Some kids had historical figures. Mary had a holiday. She had to dress up as “Independence Day”. That […]

♦ The race rolls on…the small net gain Clinton picked up yesterday will almost surely be cancelled out come May 6. It continues to be essentially a 51-49 split within the party. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as the vast majority of Democrats (and consistently, Democratic primary turnout has been twice that of the […]

It may have rained the rest of the weekend, but the weather dieties conspired to give us a really nice Saturday morning for Andrew’s first baseball game. Bright, sunny, high seventies/low eighties, with just a hint of breeze. The game was scheduled to start at 11am, with practice/warm-ups beginning at 10:15am. We left the house […]

Since everyone else was off this week, I took Wednesday and Thursday off as well. Partly because I frankly just needed a break from the work grind, and the rest because I just needed the rest. And what the hell, I deserve a couple of days off now and then. Y’see, since Thursday or Friday […]