Family Life

I’ve been writing manuals for the past week, and I’m going stir-crazy with boredom. It’s like watching iron rust, only worse. I sit at my keyboard and type, and eventually just stare off into the distance, and then nod off. A minute later I’m awake again, glaring at the computer with loathing. And I go [...]

Yesterday’s approach must have had some effect, because when I got home from work tonight the living room was spotlessly tidy. I could almost see all the carpet fibers combed in the same direction. I’m not sure how much of that was Debbie’s doing and how much was the boys’ efforts, but man, what a [...]

We’ve been trying to teach the boys to tidy up their toys at the end of the day, without much success. Tonight Debbie asked them, commanded them, pleaded with them, and eventually started tidying up herself. She gave up when she realized the boys were untidying faster than she could tidy up. There are three [...]

I lost my camera eyecup in California over a week ago. I’ve been taking pictures without it ever since. This afternoon I finally got around to ordering a new one, and felt much better knowing it’s on its way and my camera will be complete again.
Tonight I needed to clean my glasses. I used the [...]

Success! Debbie did a masterful job at decorating Daniel’s birthday cake, as predicted. In the past she’d been plagued by icing that was too runny, so she made it extra-thick. It looked more like Play-Doh than icing, something that could be molded and shaped, laid down like wallpaper rather than paint. Decorating was easier that [...]