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The snarktastic Sprite’s Keeper gave us a different kind of Spin this week: ‘Email me with a list of your favorite blogs (about five or so) before Midnight, Christmas Eve and I’ll send you your Spin.’    The idea is that we are to be a ‘Secret Santa’ for a blog that we love, and introduce [...]

Best Christmas wishes to everyone today (and Happy Hanukkah Continuance).  We got up early this morning, and found that Santa left a rather large gift for Panda under (beside) the tree.
Panda promptly named the pony Amadeus, from the German Bibi und Tina animated series.  It took her a few tries, but she can now climb [...]

I got tagged for a meme by Churchpunkmom over at Embellished Truth and Polite Fiction for a meme!  I’m going to paste the rules into this post as a reference, but if you’ve read my blog at all, you know that mayhem will ensue.  I use rules as guidelines.  For doing things wrong.  But here [...]

I’m a loser.  I admit it.  This has been a bad month for me.  First my job.  Then my manhood.  Now a bet.  But in the last case, I’m firmly entrenched in the school of, ‘If you didn’t bring none, there wouldn’t be none’.  I definitely made this bet with my eyes open, fully intending [...]

[Update - we've still got power.  It looks like there are seven to eight inches of snow on the ground.  I'm gonna make me some snow angels. ]
OK, it’s really snowing now.  Really, really snowing.
HB and I went out and hooked up the generator in the shed this afternoon.  We’ve already had 2 inches of [...]

We got snow!  Well, not like some places, but snow in Western Washington isn’t common.  Real snow.  Allow me to clarify.
We usually get slush here.  It will get down to 37 degrees or so, but colder in the upper atmosphere, and snow will fall.  Heavy, wet snow, that melts on contact with the street.  People [...]

IB (our one-year-old daughter) is cutting teeth right now. On top of that, she has a cold. She was pretty miserable all day, but she’s sleeping right now. I’m hoping she sleeps through the night (wish us luck).
There are so many firsts and lasts in our kids’ lives. I remember when [...]

Fascinating. Pure energy. Pure thought. Totally incorporeal. Not life as we know it at all.
Mr. Spock, Errand of Mercy, Stardate 3198.4
The Super-Cool Sprite’s Keeper’s Spin Cycle over the last two weeks (she was at Disney World, so we got an extra week) is to reveal the birth of our blogs.  The assignment is to [...]

First the update: I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl happy to report that Saturday night’s test flight was a success.  I’ve got the steam back in my stride.  I’m back in the saddle.   I’ve got my groove back.  As my beautiful wife pointed out (as well as a few of you), having sex again for [...]

You know how you come across some blog posts that are very gender-specific, and are about things like menopause, breast-feeding, or that time of the month?  This post is like that, only about a guy thing.  Ladies, feel free to use the nearest exit, I promise I won’t be offended.
Today marks one week and a [...]

I’m not here again, I’m over at Sprite’s Keeper, guest posting for her while she and her lovely family vacation at Disney World.  Please drop by her place and say ‘hi!’

Panda’s preschool class had a field trip to a local tree farm yesterday.  It was actually a tour of the facility - it started with a presentation in the main conference center.  After receiving name tags and signing non-disclosure agreements, we were seated for the keynote presentation.
The session was hosted by the farmer’s daughter, who [...]

I’m not here today, I’m interviewing with my new friend Tess over at Six feet under.  Please go read the interview and leave her a comment - she loves comments, and collects them like fireflies in a jar.
This was my first blog interview ever, and I have to admit I was nervous.  Like everything else [...]

A while ago, I wrote a post about getting snipped.  On Friday, two days after getting laid off from my job at Adobe, I had the procedure.
What a week.
I had already scheduled my appointment and asked for the day off from my manager (heh), so I decided to go through with it when the day [...]

I find it ironic that my last post was about the recession.  Yesterday, I got laid off from my job.  I’ve never disclosed where I’ve been working, in observance of the Golden Rule of blogging - you don’t blog about your work.  I can say it now, though, since I’m no longer employed.
I was employed [...]

A couple of days ago, NPR (Nipper) announced that the U.S. economy has been in a recession for the past eleven months.  To many of us, this wasn’t news.  It was also not surprising that the forecast for the next 4 to six months is not good either.   The ‘Big Three’ U.S. automakers are still [...]

My friend Captain Dumbass at Us and Them had an observation a couple of weeks ago during a telephone conversation that kept cutting in and out: there’s a lot of bling in the blogosphere in the form of awards, but not much of it is man-friendly.   I wasn’t sure what he meant, so I slapped [...]