I wrote this whole big diary entry and then I accidently unplugged the computer. I will try to remember all of it in bullet point ( Read more... )

First, here are some arts and crafts for the people who only read my journal for the art. This is a little bee I made of pipe cleaners. My daughter was playing with a crafts for kids book and there was this bee that looked cute in the picture, so I did it. Except when I finished it in real life it looked stupid. It had no wings, no legs and no ( Read more... )

Let me see ( Read more... )

Right this very moment, I am not doing very well. I have been suppressing all these PTSD type feelings rather well, to just deal and get on with my life. Now that things are settled down a bit, it is all beginning to catch up to me. There is quite a bit of pent up grief weighing on my soul ( Read more... )

I think I am a better house-husband than I am a father ( Read more... )

Just when the wounds were starting to heal:

Back in August, we had a fireWe were living in a house that we set up a rental agreement with the owner. Since Emily was in the hospital and I was out of work, we did not have renter's insurance. The owner did have the house insured though. After the fire, both the fire chief and the inspector deemed it ( Read more... )

So, a lot has happened in my life since my last update. It is hard to put it down in one entry. Rather than making a diary-type item, I will try to condense it to the most important events.

Emily’s SurgeryEmily had her second surgery on August 31st. They spent some time trying to reposition the Rex shunt to work better, however they could not get ( Read more... )

So I am cleaning off the exterior to my computer before checking out to see if it works. I have not even opened it up yet, but I see through the translucent plastic that some got in. As I am cleaning the exterior, I keep thinking that there is more to this. I mean smoke, suet ... this is basically a thin layer of carbon. Carbon conducts electricity ( Read more... )

When I ordered my digital internet through my cable provider, it came with server space. I have been uploading all of my images that I post in LiveJournal to that account. Due to the fire, I have called to have my cable disconnected so I do not have to pay for services I am not getting (and the less than 2mb of images are not worth what I am paying ( Read more... )

I was in the Ann Arbor News Thursday ... although they had the story all wrong.

( FIRE!!! (a long story, but you really should read it) )