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Muppets from Space (or The Desperate Need for Quality Family Films)

Finding a movie that satisfies both the CoComelon-tier toddler and the adults is a perennial challenge for pizza-and-a-movie night. Then I stumbled on Muppets from Space. The kids were rapt, the parents weren't bored, no dodgy themes, and Gonzo finds his people.

Muppets from Space (or The Desperate Need for Quality Family Films)

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

I'm trying to find the polite way to inform the in-laws that this isn't actually a step in making pineapple upside down cake.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Swap On!

My VPS kept freezing the moment I published a Ghost post, and support swore no one else had issues. Turns out MySQL was eating all the RAM on a box with swap disabled by default. So: enable swap, and don't forget the fstab entry so it survives a reboot.

They Only Do These Things During Meetings

A message to my team explaining my brief absence from the meeting: one kid got hit in the face with a rake, and my wife spilled oil all over the car. They only do these things during meetings.

They Only Do These Things During Meetings

Jones Boys

I'm one of six, with dozens of cousins, yet the Jones name is nearly gone. My grandfather's four boys yielded eight, who yielded just three (I've got four). To beat my four, you have to go back to Allen Jones (1794-1875), blessed with eight boys. His record is safe.

Awesome Kids

On short notice we hauled the whole hoard of kids to a lawyer's office for hours. They drew, read, and watched a show with almost no complaining, not because they enjoyed it but because they understood. Parenting is hard work, and important work.

Cool Air Curtails Croupy Coughs

When I was a kid with a croupy cough, my dad would bundle me up and carry me out into the cold night air, and it would fade fast. Tonight I burritoed my daughter in her pink fuzzy blanket and did the same. Like magic, her cough was gone within minutes.

Cool Air Curtails Croupy Coughs

Would You Rather; Bad Dreams

My 4yo's best joke: would you rather eat ice cream or eat POOP? ChatGPT has no sense of humor. Meanwhile the baby seems to have had his first bad dream, with a cry unlike the usual hungry or dirty-diaper ones, and it took real effort to calm him down.

Would You Rather; Bad Dreams

Programming & Parenting

Programming and parenting coexist beautifully for the few months a baby can't squirm, roll, or crawl. After that it's nearly impossible to get work done, though it stays fun to try. He rolled over at just shy of four months, noted for future reference.

Programming & Parenting

Treasures Everywhere

There are treasures everywhere, to a degree I never would have believed before having kids. They find their way indoors. Unexpectedly stepping on a random rock in the living room is the best.

Treasures Everywhere

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