1+1 = Aaaaaahhhhh!
Posted by dminor Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:15:00 GMT
A toy was lobbed across the table where I was working on my TiBook today. The 2 key broke off.
Site Update
Posted by dminor Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:05:00 GMT
OK, weekend time again. I have successfully kept myself from playing with the site during the week when I should be doing paying work.
Layout updates today. Added the calendars and got the XHTML validating. Also got the site sync’d to my TiBook so that I can develop and blog offline, then rsync when appropriate.
Coming:
- reader comments interface
- valid CSS
- valid RSS
- stuff about me
- more stories
Neighborly Gift
Posted by dminor Mon, 07 Jul 2003 15:00:00 GMT
We just moved into a new house 2 months ago. I say “new,” it was actually built in 1916, but it’s new to us. Our neighbor to the East have a beautiful house and yard. They work really hard on it.
During the night July 4, we endured severe thunderstorms from 3 to 6 a.m. It was an impressive lightning and wind show, however one of our very large trees next to the house split and fell into our neighbor’s yard. To complicate matters, it didn’t come all the way down, it lodged itself against one of their trees about 30 feet up and stopped.
I was going to call some tree services this morning to see how much it would cost to remove the beast, but nature took it’s toll before I could get the phonebook. Another strong thunderstorm came through this morning, and as I sat at the kitchen table, it gave out a couple of warning cracks, snapped off the top of the neighbor’s tree and came crashing to the ground.
Wish I had a fireplace …
Shattered Dream
Posted by dminor Sat, 05 Jul 2003 13:00:00 GMT
Continuing my last blog ...
Then there are times that they bust out a window in the backdoor while you have company over because they didn’t get their way. :(
Breakfast is Served
Posted by dminor Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:00:00 GMT
The boys beg me to get out of bed most mornings and feed them breakfast. Weston turns 5 in a few days. This morning, Weston came in and annouced in a very proud voice that breakfast was waiting for me! I probed with a couple of questions. He had set the table and poured cereal in the bowls. At this point, I’m having visions of a bowl buried beneath a mountain of HoneyCombs with rivers of milk cascading down waterfalls to the floor. Needless to say, I got up.
To my delight, he had poured a small amount of granola cereal (they call it “adult cereal”) into three bowls (two “kid” bowls and one adult bowl). Luckily, he had decided that the milk was too heavy for him to control, so he left that for me. :)
What a joy it is to realize that your kids are growing up and able to do some things on their own!
Start at the top.
Posted by dminor Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:00:00 GMT
Every vamp starts at the top. So here we are at the top. The beginning of something long overdue. A place on the web for me to spout and muse on whatever I like. Of course, every vamp is typically short and repeats itself over and over and … So lookout. A lot of times, I feel like I don’t have much to say that anyone would want to hear.
One of my goals for doing this is to have some record of when not-so-newsworthy things happen: funny stories about the kids, special milestones, frustrations. Who knows?
Keep your eye here if you’re interested in what happens in the walls of my house and head.
dm
