I'm not really a huge fan of law enforcement. But that's not to say that I mind calling them on occasion. We were at the park today and Eli and Robin were enjoying themselves. Several young kids came wandering by and were loitering on the playground equipment. Not much of a bother as we weren't using it at that time but a little annoying ( Read more... )

There has been a mouse in our van for some indeterminate period of time. I've known about it since Monday when I first found something chewed on. I finally caught it this morning. I really should have perservered with my first thoughts and found the type of trap I originally had in mind. The first day I discovered the problem I ended up getting ( Read more... )

One of the things I have been intending to pourchase with a portion of our income tax return is a LCD monitor. I had almost bought one about a month ago but I seemed to have entered something in wrong and the order didn't process. By the time I found out about it, the special price on the item had expired. Lame. So I've been shopping around for a ( Read more... )

This will make sense, it just requires some background ( Read more... )

Several weeks ago we were out and about somewhere and I left Lexi in the van with the boys while I went inside whatever establishment it was to do whatever it was I was doing. Lexi came inside and I left her there to finish the transaction. When I got out to the van I opened the door and asked Eli how they were doing. Eli calmly replied that: "We ( Read more... )

I finished and e-filed out taxes last night. For those keeping track that's 6 months earlier that I did the last two years. It has also come to my attention that there is almost no point in itemizing deductions. I'd like to think that we have quite a few deductions what with medical expenses and such. But it would seem that the standard deduction ( Read more... )

Just want to see if it shows up nicely.

I installed TurboTax on my machine (the old e-machine Alexis gave me (the one which, importantly doesn't have a DVD drive which attracts the children like flies)) and started the preliminaries of our return. Now, I hate taxes, just the general idea of them and the fact that I stand to get more back than I put in and lots of other theoretical stuff ( Read more... )

Lexi made a great soup for dinner yesterday. Really nice bacon, potato, cheddar. I had to go to the store for some corn starch so I brought back some heavy cream as well. With a little french bread it made a very tasty meal ( Read more... )

There are now Elmo stickers on my laptop. Eli was watching a DVD on the laptop last night. It was on the desk and he was sitting at a chair scooted up to it. Alexis was sitting next to him and I was elsewhere. Eli found some stickers on the desk and put them on the laptop below the keyboard, on the opposite side from the Intel and Windows stickers ( Read more... )