Yesterday, our internet was down for most of the day. Peter called Comcast, who could only tell him it was a bad regional outage, but it was being worked on. I’ve been in a chicken-little-the-sky-is-falling mood lately, so I sardonically surmised it was the Chinese testing the gear they’d recently installed into our electrical system. [...]
A few weeks ago, we went for a homeschoolers’ hike at Villa Montalvo, and to our surprise, we found a banana slug on the way, which delighted the children, particularly the younger ones. So this weekend, I thought I’d take Neil and Kelly out to someplace with loads of banana slugs to look at and [...]
I got paid by my client on Thursday, about which I was very happy. I love capitalism, no matter how brutal, unfair and “chaotic and unforgiving” our president may deem it as being. I sacrifice my free time and work hard, and then I get money which I may spend however I wish. I reiterated [...]
On Thursday, during our “break” from Charybdis and Scylla formal schooling, we took a day to visit the Exploratorium in San Francisco again. I’ve blogged about it multiple times including here, because we visit it often, and it is a fabulous place. It was particularly refreshing after our visit to the disappointing Academy of Sciences. [...]
Today I was in a black mood again, because it was time to get Kelly’s TB test read, and then return to grovel at the school district enrollment office. I figured if I did everything the very first thing in the morning, I might have a chance for making up for it with a better [...]
Peter and I are both fans of Hell’s Kitchen. This week, New Orleans chef Robert was in serious threat of elimination and for the first time I was concerned. Because as much as we dislike New Orleans, Peter and I love New Orleans cooks. On our cross-country trip last year, I have to express again [...]
It is 5:30 a.m. and Peter is standing in line at the San Jose Unified enrollment center (which won’t open until 8 am) hoping that this year Kelly can go to a school without morons, sociopaths, and parents who show up with their children, like, whenever. Although Peter is doing the work on this, I [...]
