I’m not sure how the really good coaches do it. Â I don’t mean working with kids – Â I love that part. What I do mean, is remembering everything you want to teach the kids so they can become better. Â I’m working as part of a team so it’s a wonderful experience since I remember one [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Family’
Math and Science in schools
This year I have been thrilled to be involved with Xander (5th grade) and his classes science program. Â It’s an interesting program that is trying to teach the Scientific Method through simple experiments. Â Xander’s teacher (Miss Hopper) is doing quite a good job guiding the kids through the curriculum. Â The amount of science being done [...]
Snow Leopard – First Impressions
I received Snow Leopard yesterday. We currently have 5 Macs. I have a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro (15″). Each of the boys have an iMac. And lastly, I have a MacMini connected to our Home Theater setup where we can replay movies that are on a very large Drobo with 4 drives that [...]
Wondering if my family is coming to Portland for weekend
I’m down in Portland, OR for a week. I’m attending 2 woodworking classes (see my woodwoorking blog, This Week in Wood for more details). Before I left, Kathy and I had a tentative plan that the family would come down for the weekend. We’ve never really come to Portland before and we figured it was [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Ok, this is in so many ways a contrived holiday heavily promoted by corporations that have financial interest in this holiday and the things they have promoted (cards, candy, flowers, …). …but I have see an unstructured movement to move from gifts to reconnecting with our mates and refreshing the romance. In that spirit… My [...]
Terminator – John Connor
I’ve been a pretty big fan of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I like the characterizations and the story keeps moving and changing. The special effects are decent for a TV Sci-Fi show. I’ve been rewatching the Terminator movies with Xander (a friend of his watched them and so he asked). There are scenes that [...]
Money Discipline
No one would ever mistake me for an ultra frugal person. Most of my life if I saw something I wanted, I bought it (maybe not right away but soon). That is not to say I haven’t bought those things by looking for the best deal because I have. But someone who buys everything they [...]
Daily Self-discipline
A while back I posted something about Guitar Practice which was focused on the discipline needed to make different levels of progress. I’m still doing well with this but I thought that I should apply it to my overall day too. When you are full time parent like I am, you are busy when the [...]
Politics and Family
I touched base with my folks yesterday. I probably talk to my Mom (sometimes my Dad though he’s not much of a talker and never really has been) once a week on average. They travel during the summer (since living in a dessert gets really hot during the summer) so it may be slightly less [...]
Enjoy some family and friends time!
Here is a short video that I made using my new Flip Video Recorder. Image quality is fine for the tubes so enjoy. Check out the link: 4th of July 2008 Video for the video or browse to our Gallery (see top of page for link) and then choose Video and then 2008 to find [...]
PTSA Fiscal Year End
This is sort of anti climactic since I’m not just the outgoing Treasurer but the incoming Treasurer as well but today is the first day of the next fiscal year for my kids school’s PTSA. That means for my outgoing gig, I’ve got to put together a team of folks (during the middle of summer [...]
Summer has begun!
I know that the official start of summer is not till about 5pm today (6/20) but the weather is finally here. Yesterday was low-mid 70′s and today is upper 70′s/low 80′s. Xander, Mitchell and I (plus our neighbor Egor) have gone on several bike rides and the boys are all playing in the sprinklers right [...]
Garage Sale Today
Well, today’s a day that we always struggle with. Our purpose behind a garage sale is to get rid of the stuff to someone who may use it. Trashing it (taking to dump) is not very green and taking it to a thrift store doesn’t always work out (what do they take and what do [...]
Power Outage
The power just went off probably because the wind, which has just started to blow a bit, knocked something down and into a power line. I just finished doing some sanding on my Blanket Chest so after the power comes back up, I’ll work to put a picture or two up. UPS’s are great except [...]
Go Mariners!
Yesterday was Little League Day (part of a weekend) at Safeco Field, which is where the Mariners play. Since Mitchell is playing “A” ball in our local Little League division, we thought it would be a good family activity. The game itself was fun for Kathy and I. We were worried a bit about Xander [...]