Some weeks ago I left the patio umbrella open in a storm. I awoke the next morning to find it quite broken—broken so that no amount of duct tape would fix it. And yes, I tried. The next week, Danielle was gone, so I told Sean one morning that we were going to buy a …
At the library this afternoon, I was struck by something very odd: there aren’t very many books. There weren’t very many magazines, either.But there were a lot of computers. In the “Teen Zone,” there was a big screen television. The children’s library, on the second floor, however, was awesome. It’s huge, for one thing. For …
When I bought my Kindle, I also ordered the Patagonia Kindle cover, which is all black polyester. It’s a great cover, but it’s a little bland. The only embellishment it ships with is a little Patagonia label, which I cut off with my pocket knife some months ago. That’s when I got the idea that …
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Another great story from Michael Lewis. With The Big Short, he has made the task of understanding our current economic state enjoyable. This book tells a hell of a story and it’s peopled with real-life characters, people who say …
[Clears throat] Good morning. [Blows cobwebs off blog] Well, we’ve been busy! Danielle has reported to her ship, Sean is potty training, and I—well I haven’t been blogging, apparently. What I have been doing is a lot of gardening and home maintenance, computer repair, and “home theater optimization.” (Separate posts to follow for some of …
I set a calendar reminder for myself. People have been talking about it all week. Sean even woke us up an hour early this morning, and we still blew it. Mission fail.
Succubus Last night I woke up at about 12:30, and I wasn’t wearing any pants. This is curious because I was wearing pants when I went to bed. After that, I did not sleep well. I just kept waking up. And so this morning when the alarm spun up at ten past six, I actually …
Or, to put it another way, who has time to pay significant attention to the staggering amount of “serious” writing effervescing into the ether from the brains and fingers of Writers? To put it still another way, who has time to pay all that significant attention and still write? Because I pay a lot of …
The woman who provides the voice for the GPS on my cellphone is named Noreen. I’m not sure how I know this, I just do. I also know she wears her hair in a beehive and wears eyeglasses with severe 1950s schoolteacher frames. But she’s not a schoolteacher. She used to sit at a steel …
I’ve got a new post at milhusbands.com about our recent car-buying experience. Then Danielle had to sit down with the business manager and hear her pitch. And, finally, when everything was signed, when I was off playing with Sean, the manager (a great beast of a woman with terrifying hair) told Danielle she also lived …
