After work and school today, Mary and I are heading up to Alexandria to catch the Jonathan Coulton show at the Birchmere. I’m sure that for the drive up, she’ll insist on a near-constant repeat of “Code Monkey” and “Ikea”, but perhaps we might manage to work some other tunes into the mix. At that […]

Today was another fine Sunday afternoon at the Central Virginia Comicon for Mary and I; poring through the fifty-cent longboxes for forgotten treasures worthy of an eight year old girl’s attention. This time, a bunch of Byrne She-Hulk (well, those were just as much for me, being the Jen Walters geek I am – thanks, […]

yeah, I really don’t have much to contribute to the discourse of Teh Interwebs™ today, but I have this space, so it kinda feels like I ought to fill it. So I shall fill it with this. A question: If you were six, and your eight-almost-nine year-old sibling came up to you with a pair of […]

…with the arrival of www.michaeltroykeyboardist.com! Behold, the neo-classical metal keyboard majesty! Go, there, I command you, GO! (and don’t just go because I built it…) Yes, brother-in-law Mike T. finally outgrew myspace, and set up his own little shop on the web. Take a look – I think you’ll like what you see and hear, […]

We’re sending Andrew off to school this morning with a crisp stack of 100 individual emails, thanks, in large part, to a lot of you folks who read this drivel I write. Andrew had a lot of fun reading everyone’s messages, will send out his own “thank you” message to the assembled messengers at some point […]

As I glance into the box here at noon on Thursday, we’ve crossed the half-way point, with 51 emails so far: We saw a huge uptick yesterday, and if we keep it up, we’ll blow past 100 easily, but, at the risk of sounding like a public radio pledge drive, we need YOU to make […]

Okay, friends and family, Andrew needs a little help with a school project. Monday, February 11th, 2008, is the 100th day of school. To commemorate the occasion, the kids in Kindergarten are being asked to bring in one hundred of something. The letter the teacher sent home offered a few suggestions; stuff like puzzle pieces, […]

Widespread outbreak of vaccine-resistant flu in 11 states CDC has found flu affecting most of the country but widespread outbreaks in Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. Mary, Colleen, and the fact that I just slept for 16 hours straight back this up. And I had the […]

The verdict’s still out on how well the office move is working out…the actual workspace itself isn’t too bad; a little bigger than I had before, and the higher walls I actually kind of like. I’ve got some space now to hang up posters and whatnot should I get motivated to do so – not […]

I took one more day off than the kids did; Colleen, Catherine and I had a reasonably quiet day, and did a little shopping – groceries, spending a couple of gift cards, and drinking expensive coffee while discussing metaphysics and religion. Honestly, that’s what we do. We also upgraded our cellphones – it’s been over […]