Through some of the downtime on the project, the topic of movies came up in the office this week. As there are a couple of relatively young guys (i.e. me and the contractors) in the room, the work of director Kevin “Silent Bob” Smith soon came up. As a way of identifying the auteur, one […]

You kids today, with your hundreds of channels on digital cable or satellite, with your VoD, your Pay-Per-View… You still don’t have an MTV that plays videos. But, now, thanks to the magic of some guy finding an old VHS tape in a box in the basement and google video, you can see what life […]

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. […]

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 […]

I am very tired. We were way too busy this weekend (well, okay, too busy Saturday). The baby keeping me up past two am didn’t help either. Luckily, I have a nice wife who lets me sleep in occasionally while she gets showered with baby gifts. I am going to bed early tonight. I think […]

Today is Friday of my first week of paternity leave completely “off”. Besides all the normal baby stuff, the list of things knocked off the “to do” list is not insignificant. As I type this, I’ve just finished spending two or three hours contorting myself into a small space and rapping my knuckles repeatedly, in […]

One of the benefits/drawbacks of broadband internet is the fact that you can get completely freakin’ lost clicking link after link on youtube. Follow a link to a kitten video on cute overload, and before you know it, you’ve killed forty minutes watching japanese toy commercials from twenty years ago. You know, I can’t even […]

Kristen Bell to join the cast of Heroes Well, it looks like I’ll get my Veronica Mars fix this fall after all. With super-powers no less. Anyway, it was a neat bit of news to read this evening, which maybe improved my mood, temporarily, at least a little bit. I’ll take what I can get.

Assuming no more problems, tomorrow, the bathroom floor will be done (it better be, I’ve paid the up-front deposit already!). Tonight’s going to involve some heavy lifting, getting the washer and dryer out of the way (got a hand truck for that, shouldn’t be a problem), and getting all the stuff that’s fallen into the […]

So, the plans to hit the cheap movies at the new multiplex collapsed right about the time we saw the line snaking all the way around the attached mall. After lunch and  a quick trip to the bookstore, we headed home.  However, since Andrew’d been such a good kid for the morning, Mary hadn’t been, […]