The internet is such a weird place. Statistics are always weird. In December, Our Dumb Blog had twice as many hits on Thursdays as any other day of the week. The following search terms were typed into search engines and led people to this site. This list keeps getting weirder. (The number is the number of people who used that search term to get our blog.) dauchands 3 10 % miniature dauchands 2 6.6 % scandinavian keyboard 2002 2 6.6 % nerbun 2 6.6 % miata engine making noise 1 3.3 % train timetable paris to marseilles 1 3.3 %…
They’re posted! There’s 74 of them. We might should have culled a bit more, but posting them is free. (Link in upper right hand corner.)
The other day Diane Carr asked me what my earliest memory was. I remember my 2nd birthday party. My mom made an intricate cake in the shape of a ladybug, with licorice strings for antennae and gumdrops for dots. A lot of people were invited, and we were going to have it outside, but a downpour forced us into the carport. I remember my mother placing the cake down on the coffee table, looking quite incongruous on the concrete floor. My bestest friend Cara Catlett was there beside me (her birthday was two days later than mine, and we usually…
The UPS man brought a long skinny package today. Wondering what the heck could possibly be in such a package, I looked at the return address. A company called “Into The Wind”. And then I put the pieces together: Nathan had told us that a present was on the way, and he knows we love kite flying… A kite! Since most everything else we got as presents were things we asked for and thus things we needed, this is by far the most fun. I don’t think I realized how much we needed a kite. We even have a place…