the occasional occurrence

This blog has probably been pretty boring lately for those of you who aren’t interested in my technical musings. The main reason for that is because there has been too much junk going on for us these days. I kind of had two options:

Whine about our problems.
Sugar coat our problems.

Ok, so I probably [...]

My brother-in-law is picking up Democratic presidential-hopeful John Edwards from the airport tonight. Anyone have any questions that you’d like him to ask while he has him captive?
UPDATE (8/4/2007): Ok, so he isn’t picking him up until later this afternoon. Feel free to get your last minute questions in.
cw

Here are a couple questions that Curtis (our 3-and-a-half year old) has asked me in the past 24 hours:
Dad, did God make microbes?
I think I stumbled through ok on this one. Something like:
Well Curtis, there are many good microbes, and even microbes that would be bad to get in our bodies have their place [...]

Sarah, on why she snatched Eli (our 19 mo. old) from me last night at 3am when he woke up crying:
It was my zombie-mom nurture mode.
I was happy to return to “zombie-dad sleeping mode”.
cw

We just got a new digital camera today. Our four year old Minolta DiMage S414 likes to say “Err” more than take photos, so it was high time to get a replacement. After looking around for a couple months, we settled on the Nikon Coolpix S10. We definitely wanted a smaller camera [...]

Curtis and I joined a bunch of men and boys from our church for a canoe and camping trip on the Little Beaver Creek this weekend. The trip was a lot of fun and I was very proud of how well Curtis handled it; he had a lot of fun and was very patient [...]

Whew. We are two-thirds of the way to our new home. We are camping out in South Charleston, Ohio tonight. Not really camping; we are staying with my mother-in-law and brother-in-law. The drive went great, but packing up took longer than expected (as we should have expected). We had a [...]

The moving van is loaded. We are sleeping on a mattress on the floor. Hopefully we have a place to move into on Tuesday.
It has been a roller coaster ride this weekend. Our lender has thrown a hissy fit about problems with the furnace in the new house, even though [...]

Sarah relayed this Curtis quote to me this morning.
I’m going to hit San Diego.
I think that means he’s ready for me to come home.
cw

Wow. I have only three days left at my current job as Network Administrator at Greenville College. I have been there for 4 1/2 years. It was my first “real” job out of college, and it has been a great place to learn and grow. I am really going to miss [...]