Limp-Home Mode

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

It’s spring, and the damp has brought it’s seasonal troubles to the car’s electrical systems. A front-end collision many years ago (before our time) resulted in damage to the engine computer wiring harness. Several repair attempts left a hodgepodge of mismatched splices wrapped in miles of sticky, gummy, melted electrical tape. It’s a mess. The [...]

Bust Follows Boom

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

So everybody is sick again. Coughs, runny noses, broken sleep, lethargic. I got to sleep at about 5am last night, kept up by Micah’s restlessness. For several months we slept Micah in a playpen in the office every night, as a way of getting some distance and several closed doors between a noisy baby and [...]

Goodbye, 2008

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

It has been quite a year. 2008 was the year Debbie & I got very little sleep because Micah (pictured here) was prone to cry all night. Things weren’t too rosy from Micah’s side of the fence either. He probably managed a total of two months out of the year in perfect health. The rest [...]