http://crazybutable.com/zateraul Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:54:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/02/07/one-step-at-a-time/ 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 ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/02/01/movin-on-up/ 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 ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/01/28/chugging-along-2/ "...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 ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/01/22/all-i-want-to-do/ 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 ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/01/17/the-control-group/ ...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 ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/01/17/a-while-back/ 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 ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/01/15/the-two-artists-problem/ 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 ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/01/14/recent-projects/ 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. ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/01/12/not-quite-that-bad/ 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. ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/01/06/the-naturally-frugal-baby-top-baby-shower-gifts/