Had another run-in with Effie this afternoon.
It started off fine: We got to the school to pick up the kids, and I let Christina walk around the classroom holding just my fingers; Alexander wanted to try, so I let him walk her around the room once; A few minutes later, the kids lined […]

We finally — after almost two years in this house — can say that we’ve used our basketball net. Clint bought a ball a few days ago and, since it was nice out this afternoon, moved my car out of the driveway so we could shoot some hoops. It took a little while […]

It was nice to see Angelina with a bit of energy and a smile on her face today. She kept asking if she could go to school, and I had to tell her that we needed to wait until we heard back from the doctor’s office about her strep test — then she proceeded […]

So today Angelina completed a shut-out of school this week. We expected to get the results back from the lab after the doctor’s office visit on Wednesday came up negative. That’s what happened last time: doctor’s office negative, lab positive. She seemed much better today, despite the lingering cough and very slight […]

Angelina was home sick again today. Dave brought her here after dropping Alexander at school. She settled into some morning PBS, Carole worked on getting the UPromise education fund website stuff set up, and I — well, I don’t remember what I did really before heading out to the house around 10:00 to […]

Angelina was home sick again today, with a voice in inverse proportion to her energy; she was moving around, playing with all sorts of things, wanting us to watch her do stuff, even as her croaky voice became ever froggier.
I kept working on Curt’s drawing for Bruce Gomez, while Carole dealt with the lawyer handling […]

She was sick enough to stay home on her special day, which caused much grief on Alexander’s part. He did not want to go to school by himself, and no amount of logic—he wouldn’t be having fun with her at home, if he was sick she’d be the one going to school, etc.—was going […]

Almost thirty years ago this month that Star Wars debuted, celebrated here with the original trailer. What’s funny, though, is that as antiquated in some respects as it looks, it still looks more exciting, even in that trailer, than any of the later three, and indeed most recent films. I got goosebumps just […]

It’s not often—okay, it’s never happened—that I finish a book and see the film adaptation the same day. Very interesting—a little strange, in fact— experience.
So I finished Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon. The “double” ending suffered for me not from any fault of logic in the book, but from the too many films I’ve […]