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Got the ‘rents to the airport for their flight home today. Haven’t heard anything from them yet, so I am assuming that the planes are doing their various airplane things and doing just fine. I would say that the house is quieter with half as many humans, but my folks are pretty quiet […]

Haven’t left the house for two days, and it feels great.
Thursday, my parents’ 35th anniversary, we braved the roads to treat my folks to the tasting menu at Parker’s, and there was much rejoicing.
Yesterday, I made a quickie breakfast of scrambled eggs and breakfast sausage. When lunchtime rolled around, I whipped up fancy grilled […]

Dad and I went out to shovel at about 10 this morning. Got done by about 12:30 or thereabouts. Don’t know how many tons of snow it was; I am content with calling it, simply, “an awful lot,” and feeling a vague sense of accomplishment in having conquered it. Thankfully, the Westlake […]

Got some good play time in on LotR: The Third Age yesterday afternoon. Having just finished the Helm’s Deep chapter, I am apparently (according to the game), 56% complete. It’s not a tremendously wonderful game, but as RPG’s go, one could do worse. Running around various Middle Earth locales, mindlessly whomping on […]

Mother’s Day began with a lazy morning in bed, sunbeams probing gently into the house as birds sang out the joys of spring. Before long, though, the graceful lethargy of the morning was interrupted by the phone; Liz’s mom calling to announce the passing of her mother, Liz’s grandmother.
As expected, the day has been […]

Someone check the weather forecast for Hell, because we’ve had two gloriously sunny days in a row here in Cleveland, with temperatures in the low-to-mid-50’s. That by itself is absolutely delightful, but what’s really astounding is that it was this nice on a weekend. The universe just isn’t supposed to work like this!
After […]

Technically, it’s Christmas now, since it’s the middle of the night. But as the theory goes, it’s never really the next day until you sleep for more than an hour or two. Now, operating on that basis, it means that it won’t really be Christmas for all of us for another half a […]

So, I’ve been meaning to catch up on things since last week, and just too busy and burned out to get around to it. I figure it’s about time, so here’s a little bit about our Turkey Day weekend.ThursdayWe slept late. It felt incredibly good. I spent much of the day in […]

We ended up leaving several hours later than originally planned thanks to the last-minute chaos at my office. There’s nothing like being one of the only geeks around during a holiday week and having to get something new and potentially dangerous designed, coded, tested, jammed through QA, and live in the same day. […]

At long last, Andy and Lauren are wed! They are now Mr. and Mrs. Doctor and Doctor Andrew Boyd (insert Spies Like Us joke here). They were married in the fields outside of The Salt Lick’s party pavilion, under a high, graceful canopy of trees. A light, refreshing rain spattered in joyful […]