Sallie has a good link about the extent that companies will go to, to gather information on their customers. In this case, it is Target trying to figure out as early as they can which customers are expecting babies, based on items purchased; the birth of a child disrupts parents’ spending patterns, and so [...]
We found a new place; it was probably the easiest housing search I’ve ever had. No beige, thank God. Now for the hard part: getting our stuff there. So far I’ve just been purging; we’ve been living the frugal life hard the past few years, to cope with various major expenses, [...]
We’re still not sure where we’re moving, but God did put one house in our path to see, if not to live in–a truly homely house tucked away in an unlikely place. It was good for my soul to see that such houses still exist; I am finding that nearly all of the rental [...]
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 [...]
TLG is now officially Done With Diapers. We don’t have much of a potty training system. Mostly we just wait until they are ready, and wildly applaud any successes.
My big book order arrived, and I have been reading, reading, reading. We’re all sick now, too.
Our car needed multiple repairs this month, and [...]
“…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 [...]
For all the different social circles that we traverse around here, we know of only one other homeschooling family. So everyone assumes that OLC either is going, or will soon be going, to school, and this leads to occasional awkwardness.
I was thinking back on my own schooling; I went to public school and my [...]
…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 [...]