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Out Loud

Some of you will have already seen this. Amanda posted on Monday night a very important piece about the state of the Amanda. In short, it hasn’t been good, but it is getting better. But to get better,...

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Spend money to make money

Did you know that childcare is really expensive? Some of you don’t have kids, and some of you plan to never have kids, in which case, you’ll never know this personally. And this post may not be for...

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And the other other shoe drops

Amanda has posted about the third in a series of N things we are struggling with right now.  Hopefully N stays == 3. Again life is sieging us about our mental walls and trying to reduce us to useless...

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How is a raven like a writing desk? (Net Neutrality)

Recently, the FCC decided to allow ISPs to charge content providers for the services ISPs provide in conducting content to customers.  This is principally a fight over bandwidth consumption from...

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Goodbye my gentle giant.

Goodbye Ozymandias.  Full post another day when I don’t hurt so much.

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Hearts do heal, but slowly.

So, a long post now that the knife’s edge is blunted a bit. Cats and cat ownership has long been a big part of my emotional anchoring.  I got my first cat when I was eight (he was Italian, no really,...

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Updates for Facebook

It has come to my attention that crossposts to FB weren’t going through.  This is to rectify that and reach out to people who are on FB but don’t follow elsewhere.  There have been a lot of emotional...

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Uh…. great?

My kid has recently proven that he has the strength to weight ratio and the coordination and the cognitive ability to put it all together and to pull himself up and over the railing of his crib and to...

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Good weekend

Had a really good weekend. Friday (I have fridays off in the summer) Jaeger and I went to our Music Together class where he fell in love with a new djembe, then we we went to the library for books and...

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Uplifting video of the day

This is (literally) your uplifting video of the day. And remember: each balloon has a basket underneath with at least one person floating up in it.

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Do over.

Today: The deck crew did not show to do their work, have said they’ll be here tomorrow. Was supposed to take niece to thrown weapons and archery practice. She threw up all over the backseat one highway...

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Now with even more cuddles!

Our household has recently gotten an upgrade of the furry nature. This weekend we went out and found two new cats to join our family. We weren’t expecting two. We were expecting one. But these two came...

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Probably about time

Well, in honor of my 20th anniversary being in, out, around, over, under, and through the SCA (yeah, 20… I looked. Feast of the Simple Fare in Barony Beyond the Mountain in 1994 was my first event....

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Add another line to the resume…

Now that I’ve told those who need to be told first, I can now say that earlier today I accepted a new job offer. As this year passes and a new one arrives, I’ll be stepping down from Regis and...

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It’s okay, I’m with the band.

knightoftheburningpestle.com Just to get that out there first thing.  What is Knight of the Burning Pestle? It’s a play written by Francis Beaumont around 1607. Lucky him, he’s been overshadowed in...

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Use makes perfection….

Last night was the first performance of Knight of the Burning Pestle.  I commented to one of the actors at Wednesday’s dress that it felt like the whole thing has come together, gelled, at the point...

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Further proof of our debatable mental faculties.

So…  Amanda and I have decided that we’re going to go to Pittsburgh this summer to visit her brother. And since we’ll be there anyway…  Let’s take the toddler to Pennsic!  What could possibly go wrong?...

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Sounds about right.

Went to college reunion today. I think I knew more people there from the class of ’05 than my own class of ’00. But then again, I was friends with a bunch of introverts who have mixed emotions about...

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Would have been easier with a table saw.

This weekend I built a server rack for the house. Out of 2x4s. Perhaps an unorthodox choice, but cost effective. (The rails are metal, sold for audio rackmount gear, but it’s the same spec. The rest of...

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Free bookcases.

We’re trimming back the book collection and with it the bookcases. This is in preparation for moving J from his current room into what is at the moment our library and guest room. He’s three now and...

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