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Archive for 2008/05


she wants A WHAT?

Welcome back!Now that Daughter Number Two has graduated from the Math and Science school in Hot springs (and she passed calculus! WooHoo) she’s been walking laps in the circular driveway. This is partially because she wants to get the exercise she’s missing by not walking all over the school and partially because she CAN now […]

Welcome home

It’s a very happy day at this end of the internet as we welcome the newest edition to the family, Mollie Elisabeth. She is Daughter Number One of my own Daughter Number One, so she shall forever more be known here after this post as Granddaughter Number One.
Before anybody asks, no, I did not misspell […]

What ever happened to “Formal”?

One thing I noticed while attending the graduation ceremony today was the amazing number of people who didn’t seem to think it was a formal occasion. There was mention of that fact in the letter from the school detailing when and where the commencement exercises would be, so I broke down and dug out a […]

Graduation Exercises

I attended Daughter Number Two’s high school graduation ceremony this afternoon. It seems like just yesterday I was the one wearing the cap and gown and proudly walking across the stage in front of six or seven hundred proude parents. Now I’ve watched two of my children do that. Where does the time go?
When I […]

Don’t believe everything they tell Congress

Last night ABC News showed a clip in which a Congressional panel was …erm… discussing … the oil price situation with the CEOs of the five largest oil companies. I can’t quote verbatim what was said and I don’t remember, at this point, who was on the congressional panel, other than that woman whose […]