Family Life

At breakfast this morning Debbie volunteered to take the three boys grocery shopping. Privately I felt that this was insanity, but the weeds on the driveway were getting out of hand and we’re having lots of people over tomorrow afternoon so the lawn needed mowing. Harsh chemicals plus dangerous machinery plus small children? Best get [...]

The other day I went into the local FutureShop (a home electronics retailer) with the two older boys. It’s always fun to browse, even if you don’t intend to buy anything. The boys have acquired their Dad’s love of gadgets so they were quite eager. Wife had gone to buy supplies at Michaels, an arts-and-crafts [...]

After a few days of doom and gloom at work things are slowly settling back to normal. “Normal” is partly interesting, partly boring, sometimes hard work, but not terribly stressful. I have other projects to catch up on, other customers to attend to, other schedules to meet. And so life goes on. Today I started [...]

Think you have problems in your job? Take a look at these guys! Taniwha, a mural showing a battle against a mythical monster. Click the picture for a larger version. I’ve been wondering, What are the important lessons in the current crisis

Monday everything went wrong. Debbie would call it a custard day. It’s kind of ironic, since on Sunday absolutely nothing went wrong. The story starts a couple of years ago. I’d been asked at work to help design a new (to us) type of press. After some research and a few calculations, I presented my [...]