The holiday pilgrimage back home is finally over. And it was exhausting. We did, however, see more people (including a couple we haven’t seen in YEARS!) more efficiently than ever before; partially due to a well-timed family holiday party, but mostly due to obsessive planning, organization, and spreadsheets. Anyway, I’m very tired…the day started with […]

After the dress rehearsal for the somewhat half-assed children’s program for Christmas Eve mass last night, while Colleen got the kids to bed, I ran out to the store and picked up some gift bags (nobody really wants to see a present that I wrapped), then we got to the business of wrapping the presents. […]

Since Colleen’s ipod is back in service after disappearing behind something or other in the kitchen for a while, it felt like time for a guest appearance; a little variety in the variety; a window into the mind of the other half of this partnership, if you will. Here’s what the shuffle function on Colleen’s […]

You really ought to watch this. I’m not going to say why you ought to watch this, but… (that keyboard player’s pretty good, though, isn’t he?)

There’s a certain danger to meeting the wife and baby for lunch in the middle of a big steaming pile of a work week.   That danger is the pressing temptation to just simply not go back to the office and hang out with these two pleasing individuals for the rest of the afternoon.  Today, I […]

Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Usually, our household goes non-traditional for the big feast, with reasonably good results (last year’s duck was excellent). This year, I was leaning toward something a little different – lamb or something; but the kids voiced their opinion for tradition. So, for the first time in years, I’m making a turkey. […]

In a somewhat atypical turn of events, I actually got out this weekend to do some interesting things… With the girls planning to take in the Richmond Ballet studio performance Saturday afternoon, and not feeling like sitting around all afternoon, Andrew and I took a little drive to the Metro Richmond Zoo around mid-day. The […]

Yesterday on the way back from ballet class, Mary asked me, while wearing her Totoro shirt, when we can travel to England so she can buy the really good Doctor Who toys.  She’s also eight years old and a huge Bruce Campbell fan.  Sometimes life goes out of its way to remind me that despite all the […]

Happy Wednesday dear readers, all half-dozen of you! I compose this small missive from the lobby of the Richmond Ballet building in beautiful downtown Richmond.  As has become habit in the last month or so, I’ve taken the mid-week taxi shift to haul my firstborn child to her ballet class; since it takes a good […]

The work I had back in July achieved the desired result. Quite a relief. The wife says I was way too excited after the doctor’s office called this afternoon. Personally, I think throwing ones arms into the air and shouting “YATTA!” Hiro Nakamura style is a perfectly valid reaction to this news. Life rolls on […]