Family Life

The boys have a fixed bedtime ritual, and part of it involves turning off the light. Such a simple step, so intrinsic to going to bed, and yet so fraught with conflict and formal negotiation. On the surface, the agreed-upon procedure is that the boys take turns: tonight Daniel turns off the light, tomorrow night [...]

Debbie brought down a whole bunch of toys from the attic. Daniel and Joel have played with these before, but Micah hasn’t. Of course, after a prolonged absence these toys were greeted with as much excitement and enthusiasm as if they had been brand new. The original intent in bringing out the old toys was [...]

Flickr does video now! It’s an interesting flavour of video, limited to 90 seconds, intended for brief little clips (what flickr calls “long photos”) and it certainly suits my no-time-for-this approach to video. I know YouTube has been doing video for years, but I really dislike their cluttered, convoluted pages. I muchly much prefer flickr’s [...]

What a deadly day it was today at work. Absolutely nothing to do. And yet if I did nothing I’d fall asleep in a heartbeat. Not good. So I spent the day trying to be busy. Or at least trying to look busy. A very tiring endeavour, with nothing to show for it at the [...]