Bedroom chatter the other night...

Me: I wonder how much I enlarge my carbon footprint every time I have a lot of gas.
Vogon: ...
Me: Like cows and methane.
Vogon: Why isn't Al Gore against eating beans?

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These science tattoos rock. They remind me of the time I discussed tattoos with toddler_hiway and he mentioned that if he ever got one, it would be the ( Read more... )

Part of the reason why I enjoy scanning old photos is having the opportunity to play around with them -- touch up dust spots, minimize creases and stains, draw goatees on people I don't like ...well, you get the idea. Today my sister sent me a few dozen photos our cousin had scanned and two were earmarked as ones that had been chosen to go in the ( Read more... )

parrot_bay requested a picture of Laurel's (imaginary) little sister.

( A drawing by Laurel, 23 kb )

The 120 Gb hard drive that I mentioned on Friday is in but not yet formatted because Vogon surprised me with a desk and a DVD/CD-RW drive on Saturday! (I'd previously had separate DVD and CD-RW drives.) Assembly and setup entailed a lot more decluttering than I expected, but I'll post photos after I get everything nicely arranged ( Read more... )

( Four images of her artwork with added text, ~150kb total )

The past week has been trying. The side effects of the antibiotics are slowly wearing off and I had a few days of bleak mental weather at the beginning of the week, but I know what triggered it. I've been sitting on the fence on filing taxes because I had no income last year and don't want the appearance of impropriety if Himself claims Laurel as ( Read more... )

Laurel spent Sunday afternoon's warm weather using the end of last summer's sidewalk chalk to write numbers and draw things she associates with "love day" on the patio.

( A valentine by Laurel, 39kb .jpg )

As a little burrito, I remember making round, easy-to-grasp crayons from broken crayon bits in an old muffin tin. After saving most of Laurel's broken crayons until I had a small plastic container full, I decided to do try it myself using a dollar-store muffin tin. My local dollar store didn't have any in stock, so I decided to try it using muffin ( Read more... )

At some point in the near future I plan to devote a Gallery album at castle.geek.net to Laurel's artwork for the curious/bored/killing time viewer, but for now I thought I'd share the funniest thing she's drawn this week: walking letters. I think it was partly inspired by "When Two Vowels Go Walking" from PBS' Between the Lions, which we watched ( Read more... )

After yesterday's poopfest, I do have good news about Laurel. Her eyes are noticeably less crossed, so now she rarely looks cross-eyed in photos and is coloring in the lines _without_ wearing an eyepatch. She's doing fine detail coloring, too -- today at lunch she very carefully colored a boat oar with a handle barely the width of a pencil and ( Read more... )