Last week we took a whirlwind tour around to see various friends and relatives. We stayed four different places in the course of a week. I am glad that I got the apartment relatively clean before we left, it was nice to come home to our own space. The roads were great [...]
But I got some sewing done yesterday: four more pairs of underwear. Sewing underwear is about as relaxing as sewing can get, because the mistakes will all be hidden under other clothing.
TLG has been taking ten-minute naps again. But he sleeps ok at night, as long as you [...]
I recently read The Alpha Strategy, by John A. Pugsley, which asserts that the best investment in an economy like ours is tangible goods, because of inflation and other eroders of value. A post at Coffee Tea Books and Me outlines basically the same strategy.
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I was reading in Nehemiah how debts with (if I [...]
It is a very white Christmas here, and still lots of fluffy snow coming down. I’m tired because there were drunken Russians out yelling and playing in the snow right outside my window, at two or three in the morning, and because TLG wanted about twenty feedings during the night. Kind of in [...]
TLG is eight months old, and we have already seen him take a couple of unsupported steps while flinging himself at the ottoman. He is an enthusiastic eater. I don’t spoon-feed him very often, I just put things on his tray and he dives in with both fists. He is also in [...]
I was letting OLC play with the old Suzy Homemaker oven that my sister and I used to play with at my grandparents’ house, but forty-year-old turquoise plastic doesn’t stand up to a toddler very well, and I decided to salvage the burners and knobs, and make her a new toy stove.
I knew that the [...]
As a little sabbatical exercise, I started listing things I’ve done and endured in the last six years, and now I understand why I am so tired:
FOUR moves
Took half of the courses for a master’s degree in computer science (and maintained a respectable GPA), until I dropped out
While I was in school, I was also [...]
…was that it lowered my voice so much that I could sing right along with Johnny Cash songs. But now my voice is starting to return to its normal range, and I’m losing the lowest notes.
Otherwise, this has been one of the nastiest colds ever. At first, we thought it was the swine [...]
There has been so much spiritual warfare stuff going on here this fall, impeding the completion of my book, and other projects that we are trying to get going. One thing after another; interruptions, illnesses, and we just now found out that some witless minion smashed out a window of our car TO STEAL [...]
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 [...]