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Latest — 27 Oct 2026

Don't Wake a Five Year Old at 5am

"A" wants to go to the gym with me, but I get up at 5am. I'm just not willing to wake up the 5yo that early. "S" goes to the gym right after me though, so she took him along this morning for a workout of jumping, running, medicine balls and more.

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Areas with Room for Improvement

"S" is going to church this evening to meet with the session and express some "areas with room for improvement." As relative new comers, we don't have an emotional attachment to the way things are. Some people are just opposed to changing anything. But some things need to change.

Smashing Up Our Car for Fun and Profit

The poor driver's side mirror got into a fight with the garage door. And lost. Meanwhile, the family is gone all day (after I taped the mirror back onto the car), so my work productivity skyrockets.

Lap Swimming, Surgery and Home Schooling

An all-day outing for surgery leaves me at home with the four older kids to get my work done while managing the home school...process. Impressively, there was no crying the entire time. H and I started the day with lap swimming.

Baby Back Ribs

Every Saturday we grill burgers, brats and chicken. The kids love it. Once a month, I smoke something instead. Ground beef was actually more expensive than baby back ribs, so I piled four racks of them onto the smoker today.

Swimming, Waterfalls, Cereal, Birthdays & Photography

"J" and I got some lap swimming in at 5:30am. "A" turned five years old. We visited a giant waterfall. I'm going to wean my kids off cereal. I got my wireless Sony camera sync app working. And we're smoking ribs tomorrow.

Swimming, Waterfalls, Cereal, Birthdays & Photography

Home School PE Class

5am alarm again. 15 minutes later, I got K up. This is his first trip to the gym. We started with 20 minutes on the treadmills. I showed him some weights and machines he might like, but he instead gravitated to the stair-stepper, then the rower, and he finally found a home with a stationary bike.

Home School PE Class

Mouth Stones

I told K to play with the tooth with his tongue. Push it as far away as it'd go, then pull it back. 30 seconds later and the tooth let go. K was able to return to his now-soggy honey nut cheerios. And I left. I go where I'm needed, like that old guy in the kung fu show.

One Mile in Thirty Minutes

It's just 2mph, but it is surprisingly difficult to maintain that speed for half an hour in a swimming pool. That's the goal though. Ever since work mysteriously asked, "are you a competent swimmer?" I have my motivation to make sure I'm not the weakest link.

One Mile in Thirty Minutes

What About Fraternal Conjoined Twins?

At work we discussed the human object model, data structures, concepts, etc. My mind kept drifting: was our model adequate to support fraternal conjoined twins? When the boss asked for feedback, I was powerless to remain silent. Apparently, not all edge cases need to be addressed at this stage.

What About Fraternal Conjoined Twins?

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