We’ve been thinking for a while now about moving to a new place–and kind of living paycheck-to-paycheck in terms of certainty about the future–but now circumstances have conspired to pick the date for us: by the end of February, we will be out of this particular beige shoebox-shaped living space. God only knows [...]
“…is do my happy little taxes in peace.” –I may have discovered another sentence that has never before been uttered in English. Digging deep into the numbers has been one of my few joys lately; we are nearing another milestone for MFH’s amplifier kit sales, and so the forces of darkness have been [...]
…I was thinking about these words from a Waterdeep song a lot (though I don’t actually know the song title or which album it is on):
Jesus, I’m a sucker
I wish I’d believed less of the lies
Did anything I thought I knew
Turn out to be true?
‘Cause baby boys and little toys are all that
I see anymore
And [...]
In physics, there is the Three Body Problem–trying to determine the motion of three objects that are exerting gravitational effects on each other. The “Two Body Problem” is the problem of finding jobs for both members of a physicist couple in the same geographical area. The Two Artists Problem is the problem of [...]
The holiday busyness made me defer all my projects that I had been thinking about. So I have been working on a lot of things, the past couple of weeks.
First, I redid the lampshade for my floor lamp, which was starting to fall apart. I took off the trim and fabric, retaped the [...]
The second sentence of this article is hilariously untrue:
In fact, the average cost of raising a child to age 17 is over $150,000 per year.
That cost is the total estimated birth-to-age-eighteen cost, probably from the USDA’s Cost of Raising a Child calculations, not the actual annual cost, thank goodness.
The rest of the article [...]
These are my top recommendations for unusual, yet highly practical, baby shower gifts:
1. Earplugs. Even the happiest babies with the most loving parents are sometimes inconsolable. Mothers’ ears have so much to listen for, that sometimes the auditory processing part of the brain just gets tired.
2. Lobby broom and a standing [...]
Some things I’ve been reading lately:
Stephen R. Donaldson’s The Chronicles of Thomas R. Covenant the Unbeliever, two trilogies worth. An intriguing premise (fantasy writer thrown into another world that may or may not exist only inside his head), some memorable characters, a few scenes of haunting beauty and action, but mostly the main characters [...]
We’ve had another crazy, crazy week, crowned with MFH getting another round of viruses on his computer, and we had to do a big Advent calendar catch-up on Friday, because we were several days behind.
It is really starting to grieve me that we are spending our fourth Christmas in an apartment complex that doesn’t [...]
December 2: Object is an angel from an old Christmas card. On the card, I wrote that an angel told Mary that she was going to have a son.
December 3: Object is an embossed Christmas card picture of Mary, but the reverse side, where I did a rubbing with a graphite pencil. [...]