I have discovered Education World!  Oh wow, what an awesome store.  A lot of the stuff is for teachers, which means there's going to be 30 of them in any pack, but most of the stuff would work perfectly well in a home, too.  And, get this, the vast majority of the stuff is designed to be actually useful and fun to play with while simultaneously not ( Read more... )

Yeah yeah, so it's late, what can I say?  Anyway, Thanksgiving was generally great.  We got to relax a bit, and we even got on well with everyone (at least, I think we did).  There were a few "incidents", notably one between B & I, but things were resolved and we still had a good time.  Brian's mom seemed to have come with the intention of getting ( Read more... )

Check out McKibben's latest article on Christmas at Grist:

http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/11/20/say-no/index.html

Man, McKibben just rocks.

EDIT:  I simply must quote my favorite paragraph from his article:

There are, of course, some who will say that a course like the one I'm describing here will damage the economy -- that anyone who proposes a ( Read more... )

I just got back in touch with a good friend of mine from college (Hi Melissa), and this was in her email to me (geez, I hope you don't mind me sharing this...):

"One of my favorite times with you was after you graduated with your philosophy degree, I asked you "Why are we here?" and you told me to fuck off.  Man, I've missed you."

I don't think I' ( Read more... )

The Christmas Reclamation project has come to an end, and I think we've won.  There are now only two Christmas-related objects remaining in our house--one snow-globe, a concession to Alex, and the Advent calendar, which I just plain forgot.  We only had to endure one-half-hour of full-on meltdown from Alex, so I'll call that a success.  However, I' ( Read more... )

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the nation ( Read more... )

Last week encountered a truly reckless abandonment of our scheduled menu, so some of that will be showing up on here.  In other words, no, I do not make eggplant parmesan every week.

• Ian's Birthday:  Waffles and chocolate chip cake
• Yule Feast:  (potluck) Mashed potatoes, sechuan green beans, and Buche de Noel
• Paneer Masala
• Eggplant Parmesan
• Christmas ( Read more... )

Erg!  I found the perfect book for my dad for xmas, and I order it off of Amazon.com.  They claim that this book usually ships in 6-12 days, and as such I cannot use the SuperSaver FREE Shipping (tm), cause it won't arrive in time.  Fine.  I choose the standard ground shipping.  No dice--still won't arrive in time.  FINE.  I up it to 2-day ground ( Read more... )

Houston, we have a problem. The problem is that, lo, though my due date with Ian was Dec. 6, 2004, he was forced out via induction on DECEMBER 24TH!! This is a shi-ity day to have a birthday. While in the future this will cause us no end of problems I'm sure, it's already rearing it's ugly head and he doesn't even understand what a birthday is ( Read more... )

Your Christmas is Most Like: A Charlie Brown Christmas
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