Gavin broke one of the support poles for the tent on Friday. Thankfully, this happened while we were airing out the tent AFTER we came home ( Read more... )

Rory & I took the kids to DC for a couple of weeks to visit my parents. Now that we're back, we noticed that we took about 15 photos the entire time we were there (too busy chasing down Gavin/living, I guess). There were a few places I would have liked to take photos. Here are the highlights of the trip ( Read more... )

Gavin has a fever of 103°F. Boo. As you might imagine, this did not put me in the best mood tonight. Corursant

However, the powers that be must have decided I needed cheering up because I just found this:

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Willamette University recently had an intensive week-long trial practice course for a select few of its students where the culminating activity was a mock trial. The students in the class paired up as teams to act as lawyers for the trials, while (paid) volunteers came in to act as juries and witnesses. Guess who signed up to help ( Read more... )

I think I'm happier about it than he is. [yes. -Rory ( Read more... )

Hopefully this will update properly: livejournal has been under a concerted denial of service attack for almost 2 weeks straight ( Read more... )

A friend recently asked for useful advice for moving/packing/placing stuff in storage. I've had to move something like 11 times in the past 8 years, so here's some of the stuff I've learned...

Use Produce BoxesAlthough there are a number of places where you can get free boxes, I prefer produce boxes from the grocery store for a number of reasons ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I can't claim that these occurred with a two-year-old like in my last post, but rather with my mother (sorry mom).

Apples to ApplesIf you've never played the game, it's where one player puts down an adjective card and the other players pick a noun card that seems to fit the adjective from their hand of 7 cards. Here's a snippet from ( Read more... )

No knowledge of context or popular culture
Gavin: (in the bathtub and growling a bit indistinctly but sounds a bit like 'rerum rerum')
Me: Gavin, are you saying 'red rum?'
Gavin: Yeah. Redrum. Redrum. Redrum.
(Rory & I burst out laughing. Oh, and have I mentioned that most of my in-laws have decided to participate in the new ad campaign for the ( Read more... )

Glancing through blogs that my sister watches yielded this gem:

Two New Genera of Agathidiini from the Nearctic and Neotropical Regions (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) - a publication describing some new species including the new genus Gelae. According to my sister's friend, Gelae stems from the latin word for gelatinous because the bugs feed on slime ( Read more... )