Hell’s Half Acre

Yuma is a better known town, but we’re actually camped on BLM land so you could pretty much just throw a dart at southeast Arizona pick a town of your choice. We had planned on two nights here, but the amazing sun, the endless desert, the pure and complete silence and stillness, the [...]

A little recap for the past few days. Disneyland, as can be imagined, was a rousing success. It was such a day of perfection; the kids were in a blissful zone and as such, so were Jamie and I. There were absolutely NO LINES to speak of and the boys began [...]

Oh, yes, we’re STILL in California. Not that I don’t enjoy my sister’s company and the screaming littles and the dreary rain and the barfing and the snarfing and the drizzle but I sure thought we’d be across the border by now. Jamie reminded me the other day that it isn’t about the [...]

Our recently acquired IMB Thinkpad T30 has died. I hope it doesn’t have the flu. Connecting an external monitor brings nothing up, removing the battery does not good, booting off CD no good; I’m thinking it is the motherboard as it actually powers up. No beeps on power up. Does anyone [...]

I guess I missed the inter-office memo about Lurker/De-Lurker week, shit I guess there’s even a freaking button out there too, but hell, I don’t even know if I WANT to know my lurkers, so how’s that for a half-assed plea?
Anyway, it is apparently something about De-lurker week on blogs and from what I gather [...]

When the kids are, one by one, dropping like flies from what looks to be the flu; when the 11yo who is normally solid as a rock, walks about the trailer in the dead of night delirious; when the 4yo who is normally bouncing off the walls with energy spends the entire day sleeping, [...]

We got a receiver, car adapter and home adapter all at Costco mainly so Jamie could get his fix of Howard, now that Howard is on Sirius. I looked over the stations they offered and figured I’d probably be listening to NPR. Ho hum.
Last night, Jamie, after replacing the rotors on the [...]

when your baby sister, the one you have been introducing Ashtanga Yoga to (via a book, but still…) manages to start doing JUMP THROUGHS (the part she is doing is the part after down dog) without a second thought, after only a week of practice. I don’t know WHY *I* can’t do the [...]

That title could refer to any number of things (the kids included) but this morning, a very bright object appeared in the sky and the sky is a very mysterious colour. I had the kids look it up on the internet and they report that The Internet says the colour is “blue”. Thanks, [...]

One thing about living in a trailer in California; when an earthquake hits, you REALLY know it is there. Or are those kids boucing about at midnight? Nope, just Pike rolling over in bed. Late nights have been de rigeur lately here (I wonder if I came anywhere close to spelling that [...]