I have been fighting to get Katie interested in longer stories (books) for a year and a half now. This effort has been met with limited success: the world is full of too many interesting things to sit still for a story, even at night when winding down for bed. She is just too wiggly. […]
Category Archives: life update
PAX East 2010 Roundup
Short form: We had a fucking fantastic time. Long form: I am not a big fan of cons and I don’t attend gaming cons. I have never been a big enough tabletop gamer to want to dedicate my entire weekend, plus a drive, plus hotel, plus food, to tabletop gaming. But since I was about […]
Blergh
Katie brought some DEATH BUG into the house several weeks ago from school and it got to Eric. Then it took Eric down — and he doesn’t get bugs. Eric is normally impervious to every yuck and nasty that comes through the house. Then it went to me, and I’m full of misery and have […]
PAX East
Attention K-Mart Shoppers! We will officially be attending PAX East in Boston! We are leaving on the evening of the 25th and arriving on the 26th at the hotel adjoining the convention center and then leaving on the morning of the 29th. I have already spoken to a few of you about our possible arrival but […]
Beware the State of Maryland
It’s an enormous pain to get rid of a dead car in the State of Maryland. If your car is dead, you’re pretty much screwed unless you get aggressive with the phone and go on some sort of quest to find someone to take it. – You cannot remove insurance from a vehicle you still […]
The Tank
My truck died and we had two days to make a decision and $5000 that we could scrape together as cash for a down payment. And here is what happened: 1. We went to Ford Dealership A to look at their used cars and this was a terrible experience. Their vehicles were in such phenomenally […]
No Post Thursday
I didn’t post today. But I have an excuse: the highlight of the day was a neighbor’s house being lit, quite literally, on fire. Honestly. On top of everything else, the neighbor’s house caught on fire. My poor truck is dead. It blew the head gasket which, for anyone who lives by the SE Michigan […]
Truck
My truck died again. In an ugly way. I am quickly giving up on the entire concept of getting my basement even partially finished this year.
Plowed
We are now plowed and dug out. The enormous piles of snow are a little disturbing. In theory, we could get out. And that would be nice because I really must get to CVS some time in the rather near future. Getting free of this storm was much less arduous than getting free of the […]
Pictures of the Third Storm
I managed to snap a few pictures out the door at the new storm. It is coming down very hard right now so going out in it was a non-starter. I have three interesting pictures — 1. The trees next to the door in the front yard are all dead. All of them. Luckily I […]