Archive for February, 2006

the advantage to receiving both a banana-cream pie and a GPS for one’s birthday

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

the ability to fire off sentences like:
“and I can now tell you that the remaining half a banana cream pie is at N43 31.876 W72 13.602.”

If we ever have twins

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Kate says that we should name them “Gertrude” and “Murgatroyd.”

Fafblog Q&A

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog.
Fafblog: where politics, sanity, and surrealism all meet:

Q. Why are we in Iraq?
A. For freedom! Recent intelligence informs us it is on the march.
Q. Hooray! Where’s it marching to?
A. To set up a government of the people, by the people, for the people, and held in check by [...]

Another day, another eggplant torta, another Epic Fantasy

Monday, February 20th, 2006

The closet-sized Meriden Public Library down the road from us took two weeks to come up with George R. R. Martin’s “A Clash of Kings.” I picked up the big golden hardback on Thursday evening, introducing Kate to our librarian and losing nearly an hour to a discussion (well, monologue, nearly) on town history. [...]

cooking at a run

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

I wanted to make a birthday treat for John, so I arranged with Mike that we’d bring something by around 10, when the two of them would be done with dinner. With that in mind, I signed out of work a little early to get dinner done so that I could make a Dried [...]