The Birth of the Girl
My wife was in labor when the texts started coming: a 103 degree fever, then a double ear infection, then a grandmother who tripped and caught the flu too. I delivered the baby news and then went home to triage the house.
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family
A collection of 125 posts
The Taste of Betrayal
Carob chips were the 1980s anti-chocolate health craze, a mother's tool for disappointment dressed up as nutrition. Some sites still insist they deserve a spot in your pantry. No. No they do not.
Kids & Personal Space
The baby drools like a fountain on one arm, the four year old has turned my legs into a jungle gym, and the six year old has claimed the rest of me. Kids help cure you of your silly need for personal space.
Happy Birthday!
My six-year-old wanted ice cream for her birthday, with a notary and UPS Store stop along the way. At both, strangers wished her happy birthday and she ate it up, gliding out with a polite "thank you." Who knew running errands could be so impactful?
A Science Project with the Kids: Learn, Design, Construct & Test an Antenna
I need an antenna tuned to 1090MHz. I could just buy one, but with patience I can turn it into a project for a couple of my kids: learn the electromagnetics, design a quarter-wave ground plane, construct it, then test whether our reception improves. More to come.
Visiting the In-Laws; Seashells
Things I value in a bathroom: counter space. Things I do not require in a bathroom: bowls of seashells.
The Evolutionary Biology of Learning English
We use WordlyWise for vocabulary and I've been pleased, until today's lesson, a short story so rife with evolutionary biology I couldn't salvage it even by scratching out questions and skipping a paragraph. Whatever your views on evolution, you can teach English vocab without it.
Meta Quest 3
My employer's surprise gift store had me pick a Meta Quest 3, mostly for the virtual desktop feature. Setup was seamless, but the 1920x1080 limit keeps it firmly at toy-level usefulness. So I handed it off to the kids, where toy-level is exactly perfect.
Marriage Advice
Does my wife read my blog? I shall know soon enough.
Oglethorpe
We hiked Mt. Oglethorpe with the clouds fully descended, so we had basically no view the entire time. Old growth trees, gorgeous all the same. True of the North Georgia mountains as a whole if you ever get the chance.
