I took these pictures a long time ago but am barely writing about them. This year my youngest started kindergarten. She has been excitedly looking forward to the day when she could get on the school bus with her older siblings and finally the day was here. Usually on the first day [...]
Archive of entries posted in the year 2009
More canning news
I got a call from my aunt Kathy on Monday inviting me to go with her and her daughter to Brigham City to go get some peaches for canning. Unlucky for me is that all my kids are in school and there is no good time for me to go except for weekends. [...]
Clearly, One of Us Doesn’t Have Any Fashion Sense
While stumbling around the Internet today I bumped into this article [via Newser] on a new line of preppy menswear that Harvard is endorsing.
Some interesting bits:
Harvard Yard — a lawn we imagine makes a nice resting ground for Harvard students to repair glasses, wipe down their pocket protectors, and memorize an extra [...]
Carnegie Mellon Orientation
Just got back from a long weekend in Sunnyvale, CA for Carnegie Mellon’s incoming student orientation. It was a fun weekend – filled with seminars and workshops. Nancy went with me and spent the time visiting her family.
The orientation opened on Friday morning with class pictures and a “mixer” activity designed to help [...]
Contrasts
Driving to work today I saw a license plate holder that said the following:
I see it, I want it, I throw a fit, and I get it
While obviously intended to be funny, the sentiment struck me as a glorification of selfishness and childishness and that one would not consider putting such a sentiment on one’s [...]
Beets
Today was the day I decided to break in my new pressure canner by doing beets. We planted two rows of beets and most of the seeds sprouted so we had tons. We started off using the beets by making Borscht and beet salad. They were really good but we grew tired [...]
A Little Light Reading
I just got the reading/course material for classes this fall. I have two classes: Elements of Software Management and Metrics for Software Managers. The books for the Metrics class are:
Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results
The books for [...]
Lemonade Stand
Sam has been asking me since before last Winter if he could have a lemonade stand. I took the day off today because we were originally planning to go and pick blackberries; however, the blackberry farm said the berries wouldn’t be ready until next week. A hot summer day with nothing else to [...]
Anonymity Wasn’t All That Great
The nicknames are gone. They just sounded dumb and they were too hard to maintain. It was also impossible to prevent commenters from using our real names. I am making one concession to anonymity though: I have removed all instances of our last name from the blog.
Stitches
The part of raising a family I don’t really enjoy dealing with is that of injuries. This past weekend we had another trip to the instacare to fix another injury. It was Luppin’s turn to get some stitches.
While I was mowing the back lawn Luppin and Samuel were in the front yard playing [...]