I’ve mentioned going off of Topamax (aka Dopamax). One of the impacts of this choice that I’ve noticed is that my dreams have become more vivid and I remember more of them come morning. In many ways it feels like the dreaming I remember from when I was a teenager. Last night I had the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Family’
Mac Mini
A few days ago, I bought a new Mac Mini (it will be quite upsetting if Apple suddenly, in the next 2 weeks or so comes out with a new version!) for my kids to use. Mitchell has been primarily using my old Powerbook so he’s already familiar with OS X and likes it (though [...]
Standardized Testing
Today, Xander is taking a standardized test. In the state of Washington, all students in public school take the “WASL” which is taken at a few grade levels (3rd being the first) and covers a variety of subjects. If I understand the true definition of standardized tests, the test should allow a view whether the [...]
Running Thoughts
For most of the week, I’ve been busy with working on the multitude of Guitar Scale Sheets (I talked about them in the last post) and so had no clear ideas for posts. I’ve always worked with the notion that I must have some additional ideas to bring to any conversations that I jump in [...]
Our Family Twitter
Ok, this isn’t exactly Twitter but I’m going to keep calling it that because at this point I’m not signing up for it. I’ve instead set up a separate WordPress blog with the Prologue theme so that my family can have a very personal twitter like interaction. I’ve mentioned this in a past post. Last [...]
Hurt my arm
When I was doing all the organization in my garage, I was doing it as I always do things – aggressive and get it done. Well I’m 45 now and even though I work out 5-6 days a week and am very fit, my body is not that of a 20 or 30 year old [...]
Project Organization!
I know, I know! It’s a show name on HGTV or some home improvement cable network but I don’t need no stinkin’ Project Organization! We had too much stuff building up in our garage so I decided to thin it out a bit and move some stuff around. I also wanted to prep for the [...]
Lunar Eclipse
We went to dinner with Kathy’s folks tonight and it seemed cloudy before the sun set so we figured we were not going to get to see the eclipse tonight. We had settled into watching a movie before bedtime when we got a call from our neighbor telling us we were missing the show. We [...]
Went to the Zoo
Monday was zoo day. We have a membership so we go a few times a year. We all enjoy it. Mitchell is really into tigers right now so that was his first pick. I was grateful that the tiger was at least sleeping in a visible place. Sometimes the animals are doing their naps in [...]
Mitchell’s using a Mac
At first I had Mitchell using an old Windows laptop but, man, it was painful. He was having a lot of problems and they were all due to the fact that the laptop is really slow and the websites today all have increased requirements on a system, it seems. I’ve been thinking about upgrading my [...]
Kathy is back
Kathy is now at home though getting her home was interesting… Over the weekend, the weather people were constantly predicting icy and snowy weather and while it was very cold, it never snowed. In fact, both Saturday and Sunday turned out to be gorgeous days – sunny, clear, though cold and crisp. So when they [...]
Busy Weekend as Single Parent
Kathy took a trip to visit with some girlfriends, kind of a long weekend. Part of the weekend was supporting a friend (cheering up) who has a spouse who’s very sick so it’s something I am very empathetic with. Anyway, this left me as a single parent for the weekend. My nature is to overdo [...]
Internet Security for Families
Last night I attended a meeting that our local Sheriff’s office presented on Internet Security and how it relates to families. With 2 boys getting increasingly interested in the world out on the internet (and being a geek dad), I was hoping for some stuff that I could use. For the most part, I was [...]
Xander and his classmates made a commercial
Xander is part of a gifted program for one day a week. In this program, they focus on going into 5 topics over the year really in-depth rather than re-doing what the “home” class does. In watching this and Xander’s reaction to it, I am finding this program to be an excellent addition to his [...]
Got a Wii for the family!
We actually got a bundle quite a while ago because it looked like the shortages for Wii’s were still on. We found our bundle at Costco. I made sure it worked when I first got it but then packed it up again and didn’t touch it till the kids unpacked it. Now it’s hooked up [...]