Monthly Archives: May 2009

It takes me 30-35 minutes to drive each way to work each morning.  Most of the time, I just listen to the radio, but I am looking for a better option.  Books on disk are very cool, but also very … Continue reading →

On the way to work yesterday morning I listened to James Dobson interview one the employees of Focus on the Family.  The talked about a book the employee had written about Paul Harvey titled Good Day! The Paul Harvey Story.  … Continue reading →

The problem with exercise planning is that it is not exercising.  The problem with exercising itself is that it is exercising.  I am starting back today on a program of exercise on the treadmill in the workout room at my … Continue reading →

Good food turns into great food when it’s been in the refrigerator for a day or two.  Take mom’s grilled salmon.  A delicious and nutritious fish, drizzled with lemon juice and garlic and grilled to perfection.  It’s wonderful when you … Continue reading →

We went to the North Carolina Museum of History yesterday. We parked a couple of blocks away and, as we walked down the mall between the History Museum and the Museum of Natural Sciences, we saw there was a Memorial Day … Continue reading →

We went to Red Robin for lunch yesterday after Sunday morning meeting.  Kelly wanted to do some research for her latest Betty Blonde story line on eating out.  After that we went to the Barnes and Noble down the street … Continue reading →

I got called back into work yesterday to find a bug in a program that needs to be released today.  It was very enjoyable to work friend at my desk for several hours.  I have always said that if I … Continue reading →

I do not know whether it is because the kids are a little older, but we seem to be accelerating our activities as we move into the summer.  It always seemed like we slowed down during summer break.  We had … Continue reading →

Kelly enjoys drawing her Betty Blonde comic strip very much.  Up until yesterday, we only owned the bettyblonde.net domain name.  A couple of days ago I got an email from a guy wanting to sell me the bettyblonde.com domain name … Continue reading →

The kids went down to the YMCA last night for the first meeting of our local YMCA swim team.  Some of the kids from last year were missing, but many of them were back.  Both Kelly and Christian love just … Continue reading →

Yesterday after Sunday morning meeting, we went to Kelly’s end-of-year piano recital.  There were only three non-Asians who played out of about a couple of dozen students.  The last three were absolutely amazing.  I had not realized how much Kelly … Continue reading →

I am in the middle of Pilgrim’s Progress right now and I am enjoying it immensely. All the characters are named after their overarching bad habit, trait or virtue (Help, Obstinate, Mistrust, Piety etc. etc.)  I got to thinking about … Continue reading →

The conversation on this blog and in our household right after Luke wrote about the Marketplace of Ideas and Eric added his comments on his blog has been stellar.  While all that was happening, Michael Egnor wrote an absolutely amazing … Continue reading →

As we arrive at the end of the school year–we will be done for the year by the end of the month–we always have a ton of stuff to do.  This year Kelly is especially loaded up.  When we started … Continue reading →

Luke Holzmann over at the Sonlight blog wrote about the Marketplace of Ideas today.I think he is exactly right when he said, “Shocked, I realized that was my experience as well. The ‘marketplace of ideas’ is oddly empty.”This is something … Continue reading →

We got invited to a Cinco de Mayo get-together at the neighbors last week.  It was a great excuse to wear the straw hat my brother-in-law, Lauro bought for me while he was in Columbia.  I know a Columbian hat … Continue reading →

Christian and I found enough pieces to put together to make an internet server this weekend.  We put a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on it, go ourselves a NO-IP address, and put it up on the internet.  This … Continue reading →

Kelly and Christian had a great time last year on their swim team at the local YMCA.  We just got an email that the practice is going to start back up again in about a week and a half.  The … Continue reading →

I have come to the conclusion that no one, and I mean no one, can ink Betty Blonde except for me.  You see, the rough drafts of Betty Blonde have little lines going everywhere, not perfect, straight lines for a … Continue reading →

Kelly’s big accomplishments for April included a couple of piano competitions and her CLEP US History II test.  After a month or so of work on the Thinkwell Precalculus program we have adjusted her schedule for completion a little to … Continue reading →