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IB turned one year old yesterday, so we had a huge party for her, of course.  In our house, reaching one year of age is a Big Deal.  My beautiful wife and I think she may be our last endeavor at creation, which is also a Big Deal.  To us.  She’s been the perfect baby.  [...]

I chose to host a Zillow party this weekend, based on your comments from my last post.  I took a screenshot of the declining home values in King County (where I live), and opened the image in Photoshop Elements.
I can’t wait to get Creative Suite Four! By all accounts, it rocks.  From what I’ve seen.  [...]

Washing Mutual Savings Bank (WaMu where I live) was seized by the Federal Government yesterday.  It’s assets are being purchased by JPMorgan Chase.  The failure is the biggest in U. S. history.  Why did the bank fail?   WaMu bet on the housing market, and lost out when house prices started downward.
I live in Washington State.  [...]

I heard President George W. Bush’s bailout proposal today on the radio on my drive home.  He is proposing that the Federal Government spends seven hundred billion dollars of our tax money to buy bad securities from Wall Street institutions.  This will alleviate the cash crunch for banks and enable them to extend credit to [...]

By nature, I am not a road rager.  I’m too old, for one thing.  Road rage is usually a younger man’s sport.  I’m also a professional driver.  More accurately, a driving professional.  Let me explain.
I drive up and down I-5 several times a week between where I live and Seattle.  For non-West Coasters, I-5 is [...]

You’ve met the main players of my little blog: my beautiful wife, the three-year-old (Panda), the one-year-old (IB), my daughter HB and my son, Socko.
Please indulge me as I introduce the supporting cast.  These people (and animals) will appear from time-to-time, sort of like Paul Lynde on Bewitched.  I probably won’t set them up Hollywood [...]

Tomorrow my blog turns one month old.  Yay!  I have no idea if that’s a long time in blogland.  I have no idea of what I’m doing in blogland, anyway.  Not to say I don’t like it!  I just don’t know what I’m doing.  I’ve enjoyed budding friendships.  I’ve learned a lot more than I [...]

Hi Socko,
It’s been a crazy year for you.  I guess it’s fitting that you’re in your high school’s drama program, because drama defines your life.  Not the billy-was-with-suzy-and-did-you-hear-what-johnny-said kind of drama, the real-life, roller-coaster, hard-knocks kind of drama.  The kind of drama that makes you who you are.
Of course, there is the OTHER kind of [...]

Hi, I’m Pocko.  Jeff doesn’t know I’m writing this. He’s finally taking a break from sitting in front of his computer.  You can’t imagine how much time he spends in front of his thing.   He used to play Ultima Online for hours and hours.  Then it was Galaxies and then World of Warcraft.  Gah.  He [...]

Hi Ianna,
I’m so excited that your first birthday is coming up!  Your mother and I are planning a little party, which I’m sure I will post here.  It’s impossible that a year has gone by already.  You have been the Perfect Baby.  You are quickly becoming the Most Rambunctious And Fearless Toddler In The World.  [...]

Hi HB!
I can’t believe you’ve started high school already.  That just blows my mind.  You were three years old yesterday.  Yesterday!  OK, maybe seven, but that’s it.  And now, as suddenly as finding my first gray hair, you are fourteen years old, in high school, and doing what normal teenage girls do.  How did this [...]

Hi Panda-bear,
I hope you’ll enjoy this post when you’re older.  I’ll try not to embarrass you with too many pictures of you naked in the bathtub, or stories of your potty training adventures.  That would be mean -  something your mother would trot out when you’re fifteen twenty-five and you have your first date.  I’m [...]

Hi Shweety!
I was going to write an introduction for you on my blog, but I decided to just write you a letter instead.  It seems more personal, somehow.  How are you?  I hope everything is going well for you.  On your side of the desk in our office.
I’m going to refer to you as ‘BW’ [...]

For those of you that commented on my last post, please indulge me today.  I know I promised you some introductions, and I WILL get to them, tomorrow at the latest.  Please, please stop flooding me with comments on this!  I don’t know how to do the ‘comments closed’ thing in Wordpress, and I’m too [...]

I was writing a post about robots, and I realized that I haven’t properly introduced the ‘cast of characters’ of my blog.  The robots will have to wait.  Over the next week or so, I’ll be introducing the people in my life that make their way into my blog, cataloged on the ‘Cast’ page that [...]

Over the last year-and-half, I’ve lost about 115 pounds.  I really needed to lose the weight - I was at risk for all the typical diseases that go along with obesity (yeah, I was OBESE): diabetes, heart disease, suicide (underrated as a risk, but believe me, it’s there).  I was at a point in my [...]

TMI warning!  This post is about a sensitive subject (ahem).  It may not be suitable for work, or all audiences.
Yesterday my wife asked me about our veterinary appointment for our latest addition to our ever-growing zoo of animals, Scratchy.  He’s a beautiful cat, very playful, and old enough for The Operation.

‘Aren’t we taking Scratchy to [...]

If you’re returning to my site, you may have noticed that I’ve replaced the default ‘front.jpg’ image in the Wordpress template I’m using with an image of my own design.  My employer would be proud ;).  I’m not expecting a ton of questions or comments down the road about this image, so this is the [...]

I’ve figured out the solution to one of modern life’s ultimate problems between people of the opposite sex that live together.  It gave me poop chills when I figured it out.  It’s the kind of solution that makes you smack your forehead with its obviousness, and yet, as far as I know, I’m the ONLY [...]

And the twist is… it’s our daughter!
The three-year-old had her first day of preschool yesterday.  It was exciting for her, although I may have been the most excited out of all of us  And nervous.  We all took her, and my beautiful wife shot video and pictures.
The school is 5 minutes from our house.  She’s [...]

My beautiful wife’s breasts are worth their weight in gold.  Technically, the right breast is worth more than the left one, so it doesn’t quite work out from a strictly monetary point of view, but the metaphor is sound.  If I could weigh her breasts and get that weight in gold by participating in the [...]

Happy Labor Day!  it’s hard to believe it’s the end of another summer already.  Where we live, it was actually hard to believe we were having summer.  June in Western Washington was the coldest in history.  Today it’s cloudy, threatening rain, and 59 degrees.  I know, I’m gonna get flamed by those of you that [...]