Jen managed to pull a bunch of friends and family together for a belated birthday (too many people couldn't make it if we had held the party on Easter weekend, and my birthday was Good Friday this year). She also convinced them to pool their cash and get two sweet …

For a little over 7 weeks now, Sweetpea has been kicking hard enough that I can hear thumping when I press my ear up against Jen's tummy. Long before that I could hear little swishy noises. The baby has been responding to light tapping and voice for some time. In …

Wee lad's computer arrived yesterday. He calls it "Mac ee tosh." We have a couple of games he likes, although I won't be buying more from the JumpStart series. They claim to be Mac OS/X compatible but they don't work well on the iBook, and according to some searching …

In between my school paper and clean-up from the painting and bookcase project, I managed to get my bookcases and storage shelves loaded. You can almost see the dining room table now (not pictured) and I only have a few more boxes to go through, two of which are destined …

Thanks to the help of a great many people, the painting was finished yesterday. I touched up the stained spots this morning and they have not bled through the new paint, so the blocker works. You just have to let it cure, otherwise it continues to bleed through. Applying more …

The room is a lot brighter. When everything is dry it will be very nice, and hopefully less... stinky! Love those paint fumes! Tomorrow is the bookcase build-out. Jen put up some progress pictures on the gallery.

Hopefully this one spot on the wall will bind with the stain blocker …

Tonight we start the taping and moving and preparing for the painting of the den and build-out of the bookcases. :)

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. With luck, I'll get my paper done for class, too.

Moving my machines to the closet under the stairwell was the year-end project. Had to run my own power, network, and telco cables. We had an electrician inspect it and do the final circuit hookup. Jen has put up pics of the new desks from IKEA in January. We have …

I've heard a lot of criticism of online universities. I'm sure the rinky dink outfits exist, but University of Phoenix Online is not one of them. I'm taking one 3 credit hour class and putting in about 14 hours a week. I'm getting 0wned, here.

I'm doing well, but its …

It looks like Wee lad is nearly ready for a computer he can explore with less supervision. We've weighed several options, including cobbling a PC together from spare parts, and come to the tentative conclusion that he is better off with a Mac mini. Among the reasons are the fact …