So, seeing as it’s the day after Christmas, I suppose some sort of update is in order; just a little bit of flavor of our holiday experience, if you will. I was awakened Christmas morning by the dulcet tones of my wife’s voice, intoning “Hon, can you wipe the poop off of the baby while […]

On Saturday, against my better judgement, based on two previous experiences both ending in tragedy, I picked up a black molly at the pet store while I was out buying cat litter and Prime. An hour after acclimating her and netting her into the tank, I noticed she’d gotten a fair bit thinner. And that […]

I am glad that I am not out in the trenches malls today. There’s a reason why I do all my shopping online. You folks have fun, though – I’m just not up to having to fight crowds of soccer moms in full make-up and designer sweatsuits skirmishing for a limited supply of cheap 720p […]

since I have some time (see last post), here’s some of this weekend. The first part of the weekend, Andrew and I went camping with the scouts at the local scout reservation for the district camporee. The usual scout camp rules apply; get to the site late, set up tents in the dark. Luckily, we […]

On Saturday morning, Andrew and I spent the morning at the local Scout Council’s “Fishing Fun Day” at a small scout camp near our house. It was Andrew’s first fishing trip ever, and overall, he had a great time. Mostly because this was the result of his second cast into the small pond we were […]

I am in the midst of my third week in a row at home. That, <mccain>my friends</mccain>, is something that hasn’t happened in almost a year. I am rather happy about this. It’ll completely throw Catherine’s world into disarray when I leave next week, but right now, it’s very cool. I’ve been pretty quiet in […]

We woke early this morning (even earlier than I wanted to, thanks to Catherine) to trek up to DC for the National Book Festival on the Mall in D.C., most specifically, to catch a reading and signing by one of our favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, who was just one of a ton of authors out […]

Upon coming home from work today, I managed to catch my high-fin platy giving birth! I caught four or five deliveries before quickly sheathing the filter intake with an old piece of panty hose (so the babies don’t get sucked in, you know). I also saw one of the dumber baby fish head out into […]

I was kind of worried that my outdoorsman muscles had atrophied somewhat, since it had been some time since I’d been camping regularly, but the skills honed through many years of Scouting (where I hit a peak average of an outing every eight weeks or so some time in my mid-teens) came back without a […]