On Friday, Jess and I drove up to Burlington with the kids to train at an aikido dojo there. After class, we were talking with one of the dojo members, who told us that their head instructor's father had recently died and that he has been spending a lot of time away from the dojo while helping out with the family farm - which just happens to be in ( Read more... )

We brought Meg's Mac Mini along with us on our visit to my brother, because it's a lot easier to carry a Mini, keyboard & mouse than it is to organize all the kids bookmarks and passwords to use on someone else's machine. In order to hook it up to Don's monitor without having to change the cable every time we switched users (which, if you remember ( Read more... )

Last weekend, while we were out and about, we stopped in a nearby small town for dinner. Since it was Sunday, there weren't many choices. After seeing what was open, Jess asked me, "So, do we go for Subway or bad Chinese?"

Yesterday, while we were in the same small town, Nicky asked, "Daddy, are we going to bad Chinese for lunch?"