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RTFM

In Aldous, Family, Technology on 22 November 2007 with no comments

Anyone who might be baited into anticipation already knows I’m Planning Something (Relatively) Big. For anyone else who stumbles here on their way to…well, it’s a dead end, so I’m not sure who you people are. But you clicked something and weren’t smart enough to go where you wanted to, so I’m going [...]

Glorious Shadows

In Aldous, Family on 20 September 2007 with no comments

I’m loathe to send yet another “Sorry I haven’t posted in forevah! My bff stole my lolcat, and I can’t has my gerbils” post. So I won’t.
Instead, I’ve decided to wave my hands, and point to shadows in the mist, whose nature I choose not to divulge at this time. I don’t [...]

In Motion

In Family, Foolishness on 22 August 2007 with no comments

I am off in mere minutes to a 7-person road trip, including me, Danielle, Danielle’s mom, my girls, two of our boys, and, well, me. For 14 hours. Or more.
14.
Hours.
7 people.
I’m sure there’s something quite appropriately quotable here. It probably came from Groucho or Karl Marx. Some Marx. Hell, maybe [...]

The Hopeful Shroud

In Aether, Family, Muse, Threnody on 16 March 2007 with 1 comment

Would that there were a curious boogie man of convenient construction, vile enough to be a lightning rod of our fears and angry rebukes, sweet enough to offer safe haven for the friends we won’t see anymore. A creature, in short, onto whose shoulders we can heap the vast coldness of reality in whatever [...]

Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep

In Family, Threnody on 5 July 2006 with no comments

Happy birthday, Ella.
A year ago today, my youngest arrived from the womb screaming like something from a Clive Barker novel. It’s among the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. I cried. That scream told me that Ella was strong, resilient, and I knew she’d need to be. Ella’s heart wasn’t healthy, [...]

Take This Blog and Shove It

In Family, Muse, Technology, The Rush on 13 January 2006 with 5 comments

Meet the New Poop, Same as the Old Poop
I’m pooped, folks. That’s not to say that you’ve any evidence of much activity, but—truth be told—I’m kind of drained. There’s this new fetish for immediacy, for recency, that’s propagated specifically by blogging, and RSS subscription. The archetypal blog is updated at least daily, [...]

No Love Lost

In Aldous, Family, Threnody on 25 December 2005 with 1 comment

This is a bittersweet time of year anyway, what with all the festive machinery grinding away, making us all happy whether or not we want to be. Still, it’s unavoidable, principally because there’s a warmth in gathering with people you care for that can’t be matched in any other way, and so we’ll bear [...]