I finally got my Scion in the shop to get repaired from a few weeks ago when I got rear-ended. So I'm in a rental. It's a Pontiac G6. It's AWESOME! I love this car! The seat actually goes far back enough that my legs fit comfortably, and it has actual PICKUP! Compared to my Scion, which when you hit the gas gets one last sip of coffee, a ( Read more... )

We started potty training the boy last Saturday. It did not go well. Much laundry was done. Many big boy pants gave the ULTIMATE sacrifice before being laundered. And I seem to recall that the floor got peed on once too. All in all, not an encouraging start ( Read more... )

I got a magic magazine I really like in the mail yesterday. So I opened up the envelope, took a look at the cover and my name was on it ( Read more... )

In the mornings Xan is still kinda sleepy and slow. So when he gets up, he kinda slowly comes out of his room, walks into our room ... and the last few mornings I've been home. I saw him coming in each morning, and held my arms out. His entire face just lit up with a huge smile and he dashed forward and jumped into my arms. It's just amazingly ( Read more... )

So we are trying to potty train the boy. It’s very exciting. It also involves lots of laundry ( Read more... )

This morning my son asked to see the R2-D2 movie. I got him to show me which one ... he wanted to see A New Hope ( Read more... )

I miss having long hair sometimes. I miss how it felt moving around my head. I miss playing with it. And I just generally miss having it. I think I had my first mini OMG aging sucks moment with that, actually. I'll be 40 next year and that time of my life ain't coming back. It's OK - I love where I'm at, I love my kids, but frankly the mini- ( Read more... )

We had a little Thanksgiving dinner at Xander's school last night. So we went with our kids and had a pretty nice time. Then part way through it I looked around, and noticed (with some happiness, I must admit) that my wife was the hottest one there ( Read more... )

I worked late Monday and went to a magic club meeting to compete in a little magic contest (I didn't win.) I stopped at a red light on the way there. A few cars moved up, I was at a parking lot entrance with cars trying to get in and out, so I didn't move up so that they could go ( Read more... )

Colin Powell was evidently on Meet the Press lately. And he said something about the people who were claiming Obama was a Muslim. And he reinforced my belief that he is a good man ( Read more... )