Last year I completely gave up caffeinated beverages for three months. I stopped when I hit dissertation crunch time and couldn’t afford to be drifting to sleep early in the evening. But going cold turkey wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be - I just started buying Sprite instead of Coke and walked [...]
OK, time to play Crabby Old Guy. I’ve been watching those sneakers-with-wheels get more popular, judging by the number of rolling kids I have to dodge when I’m out at malls or stores. And I know it’s a matter of time before klutzy me can not get the heck out of the way. I assume [...]
Pattie and I had hoped to keep our air conditioner off during the month of May. Despite temperatures hitting the 90s this week, so far we’ve hung in there. But I would not be surprised if things change at 12:01.
Truth be told, I’ve just been thankful that my desk is in the basement. It’s far [...]
I decided to take a crack at making homemade chocolate syrup last night, and printed out Alton Brown’s Cocoa Syrup recipe from the Food Network site. I really should have gone to the Alton Brown fan page to check out the episode transcript just to see what details I missed, because when the printed recipe [...]
After years of discussing it, today I filled in two areas in front the house with small white stones - snowchips, as the rock store called them. Rather than make roughly three hundred extra trips to Lowe’s, we ordered the rocks from a wholesaler. Thus it came to be that at around 3 in the [...]
Pattie’s recent mention of the latest marketing tendril (tentacle?) to snake outward from Disney’s “Princesses” franchise struck a nerve with me. You see, I’m going to become a dad myself this fall, and even though I’m going to be spending the next few years learning baby talk and then trying to transition that into [...]
So we went out to dinner tonight because I had a hankering for tacos, and in the restaurant there was a guy making balloon animals for tips. You can guess what the chances of us leaving the restaurant without a balloon for Alex was. So the guy comes over, sees my Fordham cap, and asks [...]
I went to an activity day at Alex’s preschool on Wednesday and brought my camera to take some pictures of her with her classmates. The four and five year olds would come up to me and ask me to take their pictures - and then they would reach out to turn the camera around and [...]
Spent the day clearing out the garage for the primary tomorrow. If we didn’t host the elections in our district, I don’t know when we’d ever get around to it. Gotta say I’ll be happy when this election’s over and we can start trying to figure out what it all means. And maybe I can [...]
OK, so remember all those plants we put out front last Saturday? Today’s Saturday was spent ripping them all out and putting new ones in. Hooray!
At least part of the blame goes to the fact that the night we planted those flowers, we had a huge wind storm that actually broke at least one plant [...]