Return of Soccer Dad- September 29, 2006 Jacob won his first soccer game this past weekend. It was a nice change. We'd already dropped the first two of the season and I was not looking forward to another semester of futility. Its funny, I almost typed "year" there instead of semester. I'm used to a sports season lasting its time and then ending for a year. But of course youth sports often run year-round, so "last season" really means "a couple of months ago".But they won, which was good. Its a completely different team this...http://domesticus.blogspot.com/2006/09/return-of-soccer-dad.html The Doorbell of Doom- September 19, 2006 So the pixels weren't really dry on my last post when I finished up a little project that turned out to be a lot more trouble that I had thought, something that required a bit of Tool Man chutzpah, and partially restored my faith in my own abilities.Yep, I replaced our doorbell button.This was not my first foray into the world of announcement devices. I had attached a knocker to the door of our old house. Here, I had replaced the old chime mechanism with a new, louder one, and added a...http://domesticus.blogspot.com/2006/09/doorbell-of-doom.html Requiem for a Geek- September 13, 2006 For years now, I have gradually gotten more and more adept at taking care of the physical parts of my computers. I had a computer in high school, and I got another while in grad school. It was, of course, a gradual thing. I learned about adding memory, then swapping out video cards. Then I graduated to installing CD-ROM drives, then hard drives. For a long time I wasn't quite ready to put everything together myself, but when the time came to change out everything instead of a part or two, I.http://domesticus.blogspot.com/2006/09/requiem-for-geek.html Lets Have A Round of Applause...- September 7, 2006 This is something I meant to write quite some time ago. Long time readers will know that we suffered long in searching for a new place to live, and then, having found it, spent another long while waiting for it to be fixed up the way we wanted it. Despite the struggles and frustrations that are part and parcel of those types of endeavors, I have to say that we were really very lucky, and that by and large things went about as smoothly as one could expect.That sort of thing does not happen...http://domesticus.blogspot.com/2006/09/lets-have-round-of-applause.html |