It may be fair, but it still bites.

Today we went on our second annual pilgrimage to North Seattle Community College so we could wait around for 40 minutes and not have our number called.  This means we get to be on a wait list longer than the one to get a Kindle in order to get Liam into a nearby co-op preschool. [...]

Date night recap.

The usual fare at date night last night.  We had been lazy with making reservations so we needed a place that was tasty, not pretentious (Elemental) and didn’t require reservations.  It may be a little unfair for me to suggest Elemental is pretentious — but two seatings, lines, no reservations.  I can’t be bothered with [...]

Flock gets the boot.

I had picked up a Firefox-based “social browser” named Flock not too long ago.  There was a time where I was lured by its integration with Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and WordPress.  In the end, however, I’ve given up. 
Flock does part of its job well enough, tbqh.  But I found that I couldn’t reliably get status updates [...]

Plane Karma

I’ve traveled again recently to Washington DC and back.  That’s twice in the past 6-8 weeks after years and years of somehow managing to miss the suburban mecca that his Loudon County, Virginia.  I have to say that it’s not like it is a particularly bad place — but there’s just culture here that I [...]

Modest means "crappy”.

We saw a lot of modest homes on Whidbey Island on Saturday.
Amy and I have been thinking about a move to Whidbey Island. We both grew up in places with woods and relative freedom and lots of places to run around and get ticks — and we kind of want Liam to have the [...]

Bird. Dinosaurs

Amy: Some scientists think birds are modern-day dinosaurs.
Liam: Hrm. But they don’t have very long tails.
Amy: That’s true.
Liam: And they don’t say rowr!”.  So that’s why I don’t think birds are dinosaurs.
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