google is monkeying around with accounts ...

Google's really messed this blogging thing up: I'm too lazy to look up the details, but I think blogger.com and blogspot.com merged and then were bought by google. Now, google is deactivating all the original blogger/blogspot accounts. They have a "migration" thing in place to move everyone to google accounts, but they've got something screwed up because people can't log in to their old accounts to do the migration (see here for gory details). I *think* this blog will be safe, but I made a backup just in case. If the migration goes okay I'll post again in a few days. If not, this blog will remain up but obsolete: in that case, go to my home page where I'll post a link to a new blog.

See you on the flipside!

Puzzle Moment

He likes puzzles and he likes TS3, what could be better than to have them together?

Note from Daughter

After one of her argumentative evenings, sadly all too common, Daughter called me up to her room a half hour after "lights out" and delivers this note, in a nice envelope. Click for the full image. It's meant to be read in three columns, so "Super" is followed by "thoughtful". My favorite part is "fun in a Bossy Way". Her Mother gets one too, in the same format ....

In Motion

Local indoor play-place, with cool scooters which Son loves. Daughter was off at some event so he got to come here and play by himself for a couple hours.

Still Alive!

Yikes, I haven't posted since November 14! I'm very sorry. We're still here, still bumping along. I'll try to be better about posting ... if not, hit me with an email or comment on a post to remind me :-)

Cyber Neighbors

I recently got a new cell phone number, and I've been getting lots of phone calls for the prior holder of this number. At first it was aggrevating, but in a way it's been kind of an interesting experience. She was apparently a very nice person and very connected (I think she's gotten more calls on this number than I have!) and I think she had been doing some charity work.  The people in her network are by-and-large quite nice: I almost look forward to chatting with her next caller!

Halloween!

Another Halloween come and gone. This year the kids were very excited about decorating the house, or rather the front yard --- probably because a house a couple doors down had done their place up in spades. So we added some more to our slowing growing stock of decorations (no pics, sorry!). Also, this year Son decided he would stay home and greet the trick-or-treaters instead of doing the rounds. I rather enjoyed this, sitting on the front porch with a warm drink and listening to the sounds of Halloween up and down the street.

The crowd pics are from the downtown merchants' Halloween event.