On Genetics, Unusual Properties Of
The images in the post are from Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Kid 1, tearing into the house: What’s for dinner? Me: Broiled chicken breasts, marinated in Italian dressing, salad, and ravioli. Kid 1: Me: Grrrr. Kid 1:
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Misadventures in Parent Land
The tempest of hilarity, drama, and emergency that is Kid 2 is difficult to describe. It really has to be experienced. In the same way one experiences a tornado, for example. Or a typhoon. This is a kid who works
...read moreOdds and Ends
Today is just random stuff. Sore from the gym yesterday. After Christmas, I got us a family membership at Golds Gym. I have to tell you it is the nicest place I have ever worked out. Not only is it
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Why I can’t go to PetSmart
So we were in Petsmart, getting Baby Trinity and Angus vaccinated. I felt really awful, because this cold was (and still is) kicking my butt. At some point I realized that I had to move around or I would lay
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Sith, Embrace Your Hate
Five years ago Gordon: I’ll give you a dollar, if you wash the dog. Kid 1: Cool! Present day Gordon: I’ll give a dollar to whoever finds my glasses. Kid 1, in a thick North Carolina hillbilly accent: Oh
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Birthday, SWTOR, and funnies
Holiday I am generally a very antisocial person. Or at least I used to be. I don’t really have speaking anxiety, for which I credit Russian education. Over there, declarative reading, poetry and prose, is considered to be a talent
...read moreAngus and the small dog like creature called Baby.
When we did the signing in Houston, we met, among many other great people, a nice lady who works as a vet in Cedar Park. Not sure why she came all the way down to see us when we live
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The talented ladies at Bookpushers have sent over this link. Don’t drink anything while clicking on it. http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/X9PqqDeUq8flEtLb So yesterday was a crazy day. We dashed in just under the deadline on some additional things for GUNMETAL MAGIC, then we
...read moreMeow!
Salem: Meow, meow, meow! I want outside! Me: It’s cold and raining. You won’t like it. Salem: Outside! Outside! Outside! Me: Okay. *** Two minutes later Salem: Meeeow! Meow! Meeeeeow!! It’s cold and rainy! I don’t like it. Me, opening
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