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October’s Geek Fuel was a little bit of a mixed bag. It isn’t because of the quality of the contents, but more to do with the age and interests of the person receiving the subscription. Perhaps the best was the Firefly themed shirt. The brain-shaped gummy candies were a hit. I think this was a Game…
Last night was Halloween and our plans had to change because not everybody was feeling well. Nothing serious, but Grace was rather fussy. We had planned on putting her in her Seahawks onsie and having her be Russel Wilson’s love child as her costume but she just didn’t make it. The other kids did, however,…
I was introduced to Love And Rockets, really, in 1987, though I had heard a couple of songs before then. It was the video for “No New Tale To Tell” that got my attention. I love the cardboard drum kit. Anyway, so I picked up the band’s then current thrid album Earth, Sun, Moon and enjoyed…
October has been…. busy. Difficult. A blur. Something. Grace is 2 months old. She is sleeping. This, more than anything, is what keeps everything from falling apart. No, she’s not sleeping all the way through the night, but but close enough to it for us to get hours of consecutive sleep each night. – –…
It has been two weeks, I know, but things have been pretty crazy around the house. Xavier has been home almost all of this week sick (today he is finally feeling better and his temp dropped below 100) so it’s not like we haven’t been around, it’s just… been busy parenting instead of documenting. But…
Maybe you don’t know, but we recently had another baby. Two months ago as a matter of fact. Naturally having a new baby in the house has caused a bit of an upheaval in our schedules, though thankfully not nearly as large as it could be. Our biggest challenge these days is not sleep. We…
This was a big week for us. It started off with Grace getting baptized. Marianne made it out for the baptism to act as godmother. The next morning there was a lot of comic reading during breakfast. The last full cross country meet was this past Sunday. Here’s Xavier coming to the finish line. And…
I have a long history with the Batman franchise, like many of us do. It has been around for 75 years and was among the first ever costumed comic book super heroes. My association with Batman began in the 70s, through various television incarnations. It was not initially the 60s series which got to me,…
Even before October 1 the pumpkin invasion began. Of course there were the pumpkin spice drinks at your local coffee shop – and no, I’m not going to go into how little pumpkin is in those. I will say there is such a thing as “pumkin spice” does not actually exist, and that most people…
Yes, it has been two weeks. You try doing regular updates with a toddler and a month old. By the way, here is the toddler acting and dressing as fabulous as he is. We made it to one more Mariners game this year. Cotton candy was had, with Ciaran none too happy I was taking…