The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!Recently I drove Daughter Number Two to Fulton, Missouri so she could tour the college she plans on attending. Since it’s almost a 12-hour trip, we drove there the night before and stayed with friends. The college campus is beautiful. I was very glad I remembered to take my camera along. You can see [...]

This laptop I’m using may be used, but it’s still new to me and I still find myself wishing for one accessory or another. I recently spent $12 on eBay for a “new” cooling pad that was missing half it’s screws and bent when it arrived. I complained to the seller and he sent me [...]

It doesn’t seem possible to me that it’s been a week since my last post went up! I could make some smart remark about how time’s fun when you’re having flies (or something like that), but the truth is that I’ve just been busy doing other things. A large part of what I’ve been doing [...]

While I was typing the last post, I heard a commotion coming from the next room where Daughter Number Three and Daughter Number Four were taking turns on the computer. It seems that one of them ran two minutes past the agreed time limit for her turn and the other one literally took a swing [...]

Daughter Number Three has developed a thing for chipmunks recently. Specifically, Alvin and the Chipmunks. She spends an alarming amount of time on YouTube looking up song videos that have been “chipmunked” (meaning that someone with the same strange obsession and a sound editor has raised the pitch on the audio so it sounds like [...]