For OLC’s birthday, I made her some dolls and things for her dollhouse. Lots of fun, but tiring. I wired the dolls so they are posable. This is the procedure, in case you were wondering, which is mostly based on the old Family Creative Workshop craft encyclopedia’s instructions:
Make a simple [...]
The world is against me, but the universe is for me. John 16:33.
I was wondering why I didn’t like granite countertops. Well, polished granite reminds me of headstones, and headstones remind me of death. Now, multiply that by a few million granite countertops, plus the second-order effects of dreary paint and accessory colors, and the state of the economy starts to make sense. Death [...]
Believing something is true because scientists say it’s true is one thing; actually understanding the science yourself is another. I’ve been seeing a disturbing pattern lately, where belief in science is being encouraged at the expense of actual scientific literacy. In this pattern, blind faith in Theory X is good. Outright superstitious [...]
I figured out why all the kitchen paints and dish drainers are such drab colors now: because bright, cheerful colors don’t go well with the granite countertops that everyone was installing. I was never a big fan of granite countertops anyway, but I am alarmed to have discovered that they’ve brought down the [...]
My mother-in-law is about to repaint her kitchen, and is having a hard time choosing a color. The lady at the paint store kept recommending colors like gray, and taupe, and beige; dull, drab, and much, much too dark. She tried a few samples out on the wall, and….ugh. Even some of [...]
From the Star Tribune. I was Minnesota Nice again, and didn’t fill out their business reply card with what I really think of their newspaper, and send it back. But now I have some creative ideas for the next one….
This looks like it’s going to be another blink-and-you-miss-it Minnesota fall.
TLG is pulling himself up to a stand all the time now, and he’s starting to cruise a little. Or he’ll stand there, only holding on with one hand. He’s not even six months old yet! He can sit a little, too, [...]
I can tell, because when I read At Your Cervix’s post (she is a labor and delivery nurse) about hospitals not allowing VBACs for “safety reasons”* I thought, “What we need is a Vulcan woman, with her eyebrow raised, to tell them that their reasoning is illogical.”
I am convinced, too, that Satan does as much [...]
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There is another, even more important secret the super achievers know you probably don’t. They know their down time is ten times more important to their success than their “work” time. Super achievers are not workaholics. They understand they have to rest and recharge to be sharp and focused. They tend to get more sleep [...]