Friendly Fire

June 28, 2013.Reading time 10 minutes.

My Middles is 11. He plays video games. In fact if left to himself he would play video games for 12-14 hours – emerging from his room only occasionally to get sustenance. He would do that very stealthy so I wouldn’t see him and remind him to put away clothes, pick up a room, or […]

A New Base

June 27, 2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

We are updating our home. We bought it nearly a year ago (man does time fly – hasn’t felt like a year here in Cali). At the time we were looking to buy a home here in this area, there were 12 on the market. Yes only 12 that somewhat fit our desires. We bought […]

What Diabetes?

June 26, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

We arrived at the beach, Venice Beach in Half Moon Bay, CA, around 6pm. We carried our sand toys and large sheet down to the soft sand. We moved a huge (like 12 foot long, 12 inch in diameter) piece of drift wood away from the washed up sea weeds and spread the sheet out […]

Screw Schrodinger

June 24, 2013.Reading time 9 minutes.

I am not a scientist. I vaguely remembered the lessons of Schrödinger’s Cat in regards to thought process and even less in regards to Quantum Mechanics when I was briefly introduced to it in some philosophy class in college. I was only reminded of it while watching an episode of “The Big Bang Theory” (funny […]

Don’t Panic

June 12, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

Today is Wednesday and according to blog code this post should be “Wordless” but lets face it – blog code is like the Pirates Code – really more like guidelines. So tomorrow my kids have their last day of school. I will soon have a 8th grader, 6th grader and 4th grader. My kids will […]