June 29, 2007Hey — if we’re going to move there, I probably ought to arm myself with anecdotes. ’tis so easy with the Internet: There are lots of claims that Cleveland boasted the first traffic signal in the United States, which seemed interesting, since I spent 2.5 years working for Automatic Signal/Eagle Signal (acquired by Siemens after […]
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June 27, 2007Alana got a mini kitchen set from the Campbells for her birthday (apron included). Benton spent a good 15 minutes on Sunday morning looking through cookbooks to try to find a recipe she could work on. We suggested…Jello. First, Alana waits patiently and watches “B!” pour Jello into a container she can handle. He hands […]
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June 27, 2007The horror!
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June 27, 2007Julie takes more of a semi-regular newsletter approach to providing updates. For those of you who are reading this because you received one of her updates…this post is a repeat of that information verbatim. Hi! A good deal of chaos has ensued here in Austin, but we seem to have a breather in the moving […]
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June 26, 2007Benton’s passion for chess has waned. Temporarily, I’m sure. But, he used some of his remaining birthday money earlier this week to buy Risk. Remember Risk? It seems like one of those games, along with Monopoly and Dungeons and Dragons, that my generation (and, perhaps a half a generation in either direction) grew up with. […]
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June 24, 2007Saturday morning, Benton got into “best big brother in the world” mode with Alana. Mostly, he built tunnels and caves for her with the furniture and cushions in the living room. Actually, the picture in the previous entry here was taken by Benton of Alana crawling through a tunnel he had made. The unintended consequence […]
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June 23, 2007Quick note here to point out that I’ve added a new album for viewing on the web as well as new pictures to the desktop rotating pictures. I’m wondering if I might start playing around with Flickr one of these days. Shutterfly seems to be getting a little stale design/features-wise.
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June 22, 2007Isn’t this a nice picture of a happy couple? It’s Bruce and Cheryl Bone, Julie’s godparents in Dallas during Marilyn’s visit to Dallas. Oh. Wait. Look closely. CHERYL’S ON THE PHONE!!! Now, apparently, there is a perfectly logical explanation for this picture. But it’s not nearly as interesting as just posting the picture.
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June 21, 2007We’re officially under contract with a house in Dublin, OH! It turns out, after doing some more research, on a pure school-to-school comparison, Julie prefers the elementary school that the kids are going to get bused to. It’s still not ideal that they’ll be bused, but even Benton pointed out that that means he’ll have […]
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June 21, 2007Within a one-week period, two different sources described Pandora to me. Jonathan Roe, a former co-worker, current friend, and musician who is actively playing with 3 or 4 different bands at any given time mentioned it over lunch. Then, I heard an interview with the founder of the site on an NPR podcast (the real […]
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