I don’t much care for uncertainty. I like consistency. I like the determined, the knowable, the provable, the demonstrable. I like stable. Maybe that’s why I like being a manager (project or otherwise): because the discipline is all about making things as certain as possible. It’s taking the uncertainty out of processes which, otherwise, are [...]
My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great (or so) grandfather is the Danish King, Gorm the Old. I’ve done the [...]
Last monday (nearly two weeks ago now), our new Cedarworks playset arrived in 18 large boxes, 1 slide, 1 pole, and 1 large bucket of bolts and other hardware. I had just cleaned the garage out so we could fit the delivery. The weather had been iffy and it wasn’t clear when we’d be able [...]
The other day, as I was driving home from somewhere with Jack in the back of the car, we spotted the neighbors at the end of the street outside with their son, two years younger than Jack, but one of his favorite people to play with all the same. I stopped and rolled down the [...]
I am feeling all handy-man right now. Our kitchen sink disposal tried to eat a tchotchke Google LED pen and choked on one of the batteries and was summarily destoyed. Water leaked out of the bottom of it and it shorted out.
So, I went out and bought a new one and… I installed it [...]
Ann and I are participating in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk as “Team Affleck” and invite people to donate to the cause! While no one in our families have had breast cancer, we feel that this is an important cause and looking forward to this walk. It’s a 4-mile walk around Roger Williams [...]
Apparently, Jack wanted to watch TV in bed but having no TV in his bedroom, he improvised. He got out his inflatable travel bed and blew it up using the battery-operated pump and snuggled in for some quality tv time. School starts one week from today and camp is over. This is his last lazy [...]
And now, before and after pictures of the other new garden Ann put together after she and I tore out the weeds that had taken over the space… (taken with the iPhone)
In our backyard is a Rose of Sharon tree with lovely white flowers. Underneath it is a blue Hydrangea, a ugly statue (inherited from the previous owner and never removed by us as we had other things to deal with), and a viney plant which was slowly choking the tree to death and taking over [...]
