Archive for September, 2003

Cold War Legacy

Friday, September 5th, 2003

Check out this house, for sale north of Seattle for $259k. It’s got a four story deep bunker underneath it, is build to withstand a nuclear blast 2.5 miles away, has its own generator, water tank, and independent ventilation systems, and the computer room is EMP shielded. Directly out of a Heinlein novel! [...]

Frustrated

Thursday, September 4th, 2003

When Jo was born in 1999 I had a really long and difficult labor. After pushing for over 4 hours, it was finally over. At around 3 weeks, Jo developed a fever of unknown origin. Because she was so young, she had to go into the hospital for..3? I think 3 nights, [...]

Tooth Fairy

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003

I just finished The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce. At some site I had seen it listed as a really scary book, and I started reading it with great expectations. Turns out that it’s your basic group-of-boys-coming-of-age novel, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s like drinking a swig of Dr. [...]

What we have here…

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003

…was a failure to communicate.
Anyway, there was a message Saturday night about the baby, but it was on hub’s cell phone voicemail and Sprint was screwed up and never gave him a new voicemail notification. Therefore we all blame Sprint.
Both dogs are in considerable intestinal distress and have painted the walls and floor of [...]

Happy birthday

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003

I read on Binkey’s blog that M.S. had her baby on Saturday. Congratulations! Her husband left us a cryptic message this morning with the number for the hospital, but he didn’t happen to mention why they were there, or that there was a baby involved.
This is, however, an improvement from last time she [...]

Extending a helping hand

Monday, September 1st, 2003

I’ve been getting a lot of hits from people searching for the lyrics of the song “Manifold de Amour” by Latin Playboys (a.k.a. Los Lobos). I’m pretty sure this is right:
Voy a navegar
al puerto del alma
cruzando el mar
hasta que llegaré
in English:
I’m going to sail
to the port of the soul
crossing the sea
until I arrive
It was [...]