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11:49 PM. From down the hall, an ominous THUMP…. THUMP…. THUMP… The sound of Claire kicking her legs against the mattress like some kind of imprisoned mermaid.

Me: Drums… Drums in the deep…
Liz: You know, that’s what I think every time she does that.
Me: Damn, I love you.

I’m really excited by the amount of progress I’ve made over the last couple of weekends, hacking away at what for now is known as Shindig, a group management blog/calendar app written against TurboGears. Its primary purpose is to be something easier and faster for me to maintain than ClePy’s current Plone site. […]

Keeping busy. More than a little stressed. The next couple of days are (as usual) critical. So far so good, though…
I’ve graduated from being assigned weird shifts for monitoring the farm during Val to being on call 24×7 for the duration; I’m not sure if this is an improvement or not, but it […]

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We’re now back from our adventures in Indiana. Friday was occupied with the drive down (filled with an amusingly punch-drunk loop of “are we there yet?”), and capped off with a bit of prosecco and tasty eats at Agio, which we selected based […]

After working eleven days straight, the weekend–a weekend, any weekend–is almost in sight. Hip-hip-fucking-huzzah!!
In brief: Valentine’s Day. We. Owned. It. Oh, baby, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh! After a year’s worth of fear, worry, and despair, it turned out that two or three weeks of frantic last-minute preparation […]

aquamindy and I (okay, mostly aquamindy, but I helped) installed a cat hole on our laundry room door this week!

Julia beholds the glory
Valentine enjoys the new opening
Julia through the arch

In thoroughly unrelated news, we have tickets to see One Man Lord of the Rings in Chicago in February!! My bounces of excitement and joy […]

Apparently, today is the single day of the year that is in most dire need of listening to the Bangles’ “Manic Monday” until your head explodes with nostalgic, new-wave cheer. That’s right, today is officially the most depressing day of the year.
To cheer you all up, here’s a nice little follow-up to last time’s […]

Two bottles of not-so-tasty wine on Friday night eventually led to one that was happy, which ended up paired with grilled brats and Return of the King.
Slept in far past our originally planned time, then discovered that our lack of hot water on Friday morning was not a fluke, as the shower would only briefly […]

Somewhere, someone has flipped the switch, and Cleveland has suddenly lurched out of its long, dreary season into one of sunshine, flowers, and warming temperatures. Of course, there’s always a day or two of delay before the climate control in the office adjusts to the change, so it’s currently just shy of fifty million […]

Egads, but it’s been far too long since I’ve posted anything here. I guess I’d better write about this weekend while it’s still fresh.
Sometime last fall, I bouncily reported to my wife that the Columbus Orchestra would be performing Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus in March, […]