Neither Dad nor my brother looked up as I carried the blender in its box from the kitchen, through the den, where each was busy reading or scribbling notes, and back into the computer room. How excited do you get about a blender? Dad and Ben didn’t even notice the pretty, white box capped with…
I just got back from the Stones’, where I went over songs with Shawn. Justin managed to come away with a bag full of beef ribs, which he and Dennis and Grody and the cats and I just ate, and books on C,_Schrodinger’s Kittens_, and _The Linux Bible, as well as Linux slackware3.2. So I’ve…
On the way to Holly’s tonight, we were listening to the soundtrack to That Thing You Do which led to Max telling Dennis he needed to be exposed to Jacob’s Trouble and how the best song is These Thousand Hills which we listened to all across Wyoming and how that was a fun road trip…
They were right. I did hear the kids that morning, but I’m used to sleeping through noise. Eventually, I picked up my watch and looked at it. 8:00. I got up and started changing clothes as Tess told me through the closed slat doors what time it was and asked if I wanted to get…
Dodging the funnel clouds, we made it to the Galleria Mall in Dallas safely. The Russian shop was kinda cool, full of nesting dolls, Soviet uniform coats, and medals. Some of them were labeled, telling what they were for and “very rare” added. I laughed and wondered if they really were. How could the average…