What’s on the news?
Daughter: Can I watch cartoons?
Me: Not right now, I’m watching something.
Daughter: The news? Borrriiing. The news only shows dying.
Archive for November, 2005
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
To everyone with A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving in their Netflix queue with Availability showing “Long Wait”. It’s my fault. I won’t be sending it back until Friday. Sorry. But it’ll be on ABC Thursday night. I’ve also got A Charlie Brown Christmas. I know. I suck.
A bed of her own
Have I mentioned before that my lovely and talented wife is the arty type? Theater? Fashion? Dancer? First reactions are usually that there isn’t much in common between a person who likes those things and a person like me who enjoys programming computers. But that’s usually because people who have [...]
Strangers vs. the Spooky Eye
The kids were playing outside yesterday afternoon while I was working in my office upstairs. Through the open window that looks over our front yard I heard them start yelling, “Stranger! Stranger!” followed by the sound of little feet stomping up the stairs. Our “stranger training” obviously worked. I went outside with [...]
Cheaters are mighty fine eatin’
Me: Did you have fun playing outside?
Daughter: Ye… No!
Me: No? You didn’t have fun riding your bike?
Daughter: Yeah, but the other kids cheated when we played dinosaurs.
Me: Oh?
Daughter: Yeah, they’re cheaters. They wouldn’t play right.
Me: Well, you’ll have to deal with cheaters your whole life.
A short speech about cheaters and how best to [...]
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