Younger Son has been working his way through the Harry Potter books since 4th grade. It's taken him about two years, but he's managed to (as of Saturday), read all seven of the books. He was determined to finish DH before HP7.2 comes out in July. He's proud that, for the first time ever, he'll be able to watch one of the HP movies and know what ( Read more... )

So last Sunday night the phone conversation when somewhat like this:

Man (In a very heavy Indian accent)Thank you for calling HughesNet technical support. My name is Bob. How may I help you today?

Bob? Are you kidding me? BOB?? Do you really think giving yourself some overly-common non-Indian name is going to trick me into believing the call ( Read more... )

A week after a diagnosis of bronchial pneumonia, I'm feeling much better. Who knew normal air had so much breathable oxygen in it? It's lovely ( Read more... )

Older Son's science teacher is trying to kill me. I'm sure of it. To "help" the class study their vocabulary for this chapter, he handed out a worksheet with 20 (!!!) cryptograms on it. Cryptograms!! Twenty of them!! I really, really dislike cryptograms ( Read more... )

My oldest starts high school this Wednesday. I'm handling it pretty well while still insisting I am NOT old enough to have a child entering high school ( Read more... )

We had to take Boots back to his previous owner. He was miserably unhappy being fenced in. He'd stand at the fence looking in the direction of his old home. He didn't want to play. He was just pitiful. Younger Son and I took him back yesterday afternoon. As soon as we let him out of the car, he was off to the pastures hunting rabbits again. YS is ( Read more... )