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Category: Everyday Stories

  • Unsolved Mystery…At Least For Me

    Been an unusually loud few hours. Our landlord had the heat turned off over the weekend (geez) but it was back on last night and kicking the pipes harder than I’ve heard so far this year. Bang bang bang bang bang, the radiators were rattling and all the pipes leading to it. Bang bang bang…

  • So tall, so fast

    Interesting conversation with H.o.p. tonight. We were sitting at the puters after he’d practiced piano (he is now taking piano) and H.o.p. says after a while, “What can I do to keep from floating up?” Hmmm. Okey-dokey. “You feel like you’re going out of your body sometimes?” “Yes. Going up. I float up above it.”…

  • Not Learning About Geo-Spatial Intelligence with Terry-Firma and Wanda World

    Today I thought H.o.p. and I could look at the military’s kid’s section of the Geo-Spatial Intelligence website. H.o.p. could review and I could (probably) mock it–not in front of him, mind you, I wouldn’t want to influence him, because after all I’m trying to see what key ideas and words are dropped on govt…

  • Learning about intelligence and information with Little Lady Liberty and Beaker Eagle

    The National Counterterrorism Center for Kids Page sucks. You knew it would but it sucks even more than you could have guessed. The reason I was there is The Spy Who Billed Me’s blog on the National Counterterrorism Center’s release of their 2007 Counterterrorism Calendar, which I went to take a look at and is…

  • Ikea and the bed

    Never wrote about the Ikea bed fiasco we had at Christmas, just before the flu. A lot of people write about problems with putting together things from Ikea. We’ve never had a bad experience and I still love our cheap bookshelves, with which we’ve filled the apartment. The really cheap ones. The $50 a pop…

  • The word of the day is "Zombified"

    So this evening I for some reason thought about how it had been a while since I’d had one of those coincidental moments with H.o.p. where something I’m thinking will pop out of his mouth. Earlier today I wrote on the blog how I was feeling “zombified”. It’s not a normal part of my vocabulary.…

  • "I was just trying to help"

    For dinner tonight we had guacamole. We make great guac. While making our great guac we realized we were out of lemon and co-adult ran out to get some. Gotta have lemon for the guac. And it was great guac. The avocados were perfect. The last ingredient added was a little salt. Just a touch.…

  • A lot more where this came from

    This flu has some kind of mind of its own–or maybe the multi-symptom daytime cold medication that I took does. Which I took several hours before I went to bed last night so probably isn’t responsible for what went through my mind as I lay waiting for sleep that didn’t show up. Won’t say how…

  • Magical lint, secrets for cash – The Sanity of “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Magical lint, secrets for cash – The Sanity of “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Of course I spent yesterday in bed, unable to move. But who didn’t know that would likely happen? Even I knew that would likely happen, I’m not a complete idiot. Though I must say I was hoping that I would be spared, mainly because I was the one doing all the cooking and I didn’t…

  • Still standing

    Let me put it this way, the holiday pitched a few punches. Mother-in-law in from out of town since last Thursday and co-adult’s two brothers arriving a little after that, co-adult got hit with the flu last Friday and has been in bed since then, completely since then, steeped in misery. I have been gobbling…

  • In which I do a good job of not spreading Christmas cheer

    In which I do a good job of not spreading Christmas cheer

    We hit the Imperial Rome Exhibit at Fernbank a second time. The exhibit is leaving early January so not too long left to see it if you haven’t and are in the area. Imperial Rome Exhibit, Education Alley, Fernbank, Atlanta, 2006 View On White Going through the Farmer’s Market afterwards I finally mustered up a…

  • Why do I always think of Young Life when I meditate a moment on "The Blob"?

    Puppet Maker’s Hand, 2006 H.o.p. trying his hand again at making paper mache puppets the other day, which didn’t turn out so well and he decided it was too much work. But I did get this picture and liked the way there was an ungooped spot on his hand where you could see the flour/salt…