1. For those waiting for photo updates, I uploaded a whole bunch of new pics yesterday. These pics are real photos, taken with a real camera. And they don’t actually suck too much. You know where to click.
2. Today is the last day of Claire’s grandfather’s work before retiring. As [...]

I know I mentioned that I’d be uber-posting episodes from the novella here this week, but I’ve needed to re-evaluate that particular goal due to some random distractions, inconveniences, and other personal reasons. I’ll try and get at least a couple up before the week is out, but realistically the one-a-day thing is now [...]

Arc the third story in my “year of the short-story” project. I was aiming for four. I’ve progressed on two. The year is nearly half through. The clock is ticking.
Basement purge, to make way for an impending arrival of construction supplies that will turn a hollow cave of steel, wood, and concrete [...]

three… (the countdown to seven years!)
Edward Lorenz is famous for having introduced the world to chaos theory, which holds that small differences in the initial conditions of a system can have outsized impacts on its functioning, a phenomenon sometimes called the “butterfly effect.” He died yesterday and thus my own chaos follows:
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9. My pirate coffee mug was broken upon arrival, but rather than shipping it back I glued it together and filled it with dirt and seeds, and set it in my window at work.  This morning there is definite sprouting going on. Yarr!
8. Claire has a new repertoire of tricks since I last wrote.  These [...]

We’re all on the mend here after a few days of moderate (though merely annoying) head-colds, one of the souvenirs we brought back from Portland. (Alice will likely feel guilty ’cause I wrote that, but after her generous hospitality the least we could do is take some germs off her hands.) As far as [...]

1) For those who are confused, this is a photo-per-day effort, and NOT a blog-post-per-day effort. As much as I know you enjoy reading my ramblings on a daily basis, logistically it ain’t gonna happen. Deal.
2) I finished reading JPod this weekend and thought I would catch up on the television version last night. [...]

December 31
Well, this is it. The last day in December, and with thirty successful entries behind me it’s time to look way back. This is New Years Eve, and one of the things about running a blog for over half a decade is that eventually things become habitual — repeatable — traditional, even. [...]

December 26
… but only if you don’t find yourself waiting in line at a store or mall.

Day 26: Cuddlin’ Cousins!

10. Nurse your sugar-hangover from eating too many Christmas goodies.
9. Spend two hours hooking up various electronics and explaining to technologically illiterate relatives how to use the gadgets you or someone else gave them.
8. Sample [...]

December 23
It snowed again last night. I went for a walk amongst those sort of flakes that fall like bits of cotton candy, and in the cone of light dropping out of each lamppost seem to drift and swirl in a surreal four-dimensional ballet of brownian physics.

Day 23: Careful, or you [...]

December 11
I have a headache from looking after Claire on my own for three hours while Karin went out to a function. She screamed most of the time. Claire, that is. It was either gas, or it was because I can’t provide fresh milk. Either way, not much I can do [...]

December 8
Just one of those got-stuff-done, but didn’t do much sort of days. This included:

Day 8: That Christmas tree looks so good, I could eat it!

Slept in a little bit.
Made a pot of really good coffee.
Picked up a tree at Ikea after scarfing down a one dollar breakfast.
Vacuumed the living room twice, once before we [...]