Happy Halloween, everyone! Be on the lookout for an adorable monkey-girl in large ears and a banana skirt and a heroic firefighter (on the short side). Oh, and not to totally gloat or anything, but it’s sunny and clear and 89 degrees outside right now. It’s going to be a great night.

I’ve been a fan of Nick Park’s work for a long time and his latest Wallace and Gromit movie, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, does not disappoint. We saw it Sunday night and everyone loved it. Lots of funny moments, lots of jokes (and more than a few that go right over the kids’ heads), a [...]

Turns out making up violent lyrics to songs is normal. Well, common anyway.

Is Cingular GoPhone service about to be cancelled?. Damn. We just signed up last month and were rather liking it, too.

This past weekend I finished a task that turned out to be undeserving of my procrastination and left me with a welcome sense of relief. I made a backup of every digital photograph in my collection, over 15,000 images, spanning nearly 6 years from early 2000 through last week. It had been far too long [...]

I’m sure a lot of you are, like myself, a member of Netflix. I love it but I was wondering if it was really worth the expense. Sometimes the DVDs sit on my shelf unwatched for days. Sometimes by the time I receive a DVD I don’t have any interest in watching it anymore. Being [...]

Scene: eating sandwiches in the kitchen. Son: Dad. Me: Yeah? Son: I just pulled a yellow thing out of my ear. At this point I stop eating and look at him and think about where my feet are lest I step on something unpleasant. Me: Oh, yeah? What did you do with it? Son: I [...]

Wow, what a day. 6:26am We wake up by being urinated on by The Boy. Good morning. Our 7-day old feather-bed needs to be washed. 8:08am The Boy makes it to the bathroom just in time to pee on me and his clothes again. 9:30am After breakfast, both kids sent to their rooms for fighting. [...]