So I was talking with my wife the other night when inspiration struck: why not build a house on a lazy susan? How cool would that be? Want to see the sunset? Rotate the house to the west! Play pranks on visitors who don’t know your house rotates! The possibilities are endless! Well, she didn’t [...]

On the weekend, I’m usually the one to get up to feed and clothe the children. This is partly because my wife does it the other five days and partly because they invariably ask for Daddy on the weekend. This morning my kind and lovely wife let me sleep in. This is partly because she [...]

I’m making a book, a “Year in Pictures”, to send to the family for Christmas. I showed my wife the work in progress last night and she commented, “I just realized that you’re the scrapbooker in the family.” I guess she’s right. This blog, the photo album, now the book — it is scrapbooking of [...]

“I wanted to play Internet games so much. I wish I could just play games without having to think of anything else,” Mr. Jin told police.

Both the kids crawled into bed with us this morning. It annoys my wife because they always commandeer her side of the bed. I tell her that they pick her side because she’s more snuggly than I am — that it’s a compliment. She gives me the look. Then we discussed setting up some bear [...]

Where to begin. The Boy. Because he’s still relatively new and shiny, The Boy is fascinated with just about everything. He hasn’t yet reached the jaded heights from which my four-year-old daughter looks down upon me when we have conversations like: “Hey sweetie, let’s watch something educational!” “Dad, that’s SO booorrrrrring.” Today while waiting in [...]

After upgrading my daughter’s computer to Mandrake 10 official, I found that I could not print. No matter what I did, I always got the NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error message even though smbclient could see the shared printer (you can see the logs by running tail -f /var/log/messages /var/log/cups/error_log). The problem is that the configuration utility either [...]

I used to work with Heather, a contestant on Rebel Billionaire. So weird. She won’t talk so I have to watch the show to see how she did.

We’ve been teaching The Boy to use the toilet and, while he does have a keen interest in doing so, his timing needs improvement. He usually tells me, urgently, “Daddy, me need to use potty,” much too late to be of any use. Much too late. Tonight he informed me of the situation and I [...]

My daughter and I were playing tonight and I guess I was being a little too silly because she admonished me to “Quit goofing around and play, Daddy!”