I started shopping for a network-attached storage device several days ago, after a hard-drive failure on my main home computer wiped out most of the stuff I’ve done in the last year. All of the major online retailers had basically the exact same price of $399, so I decided to buy it from Amazon. I’d… Continue reading Rip-off report
Category: Random Stories
The Force flows through all things
Since my kids recently watched the Star Wars movies for the first time (in preparation for our family Halloween costumes this year), I’ve become acutely aware of its influence on our popular culture. I’ll see some reference to the Force or to Darth Vader, and think, “Audrey would get that now, but she wouldn’t have understood it a month ago.”
Telling Stories
Tonight when we were coming home from Grandma Gibby’s house, we were playing games made up by a 5-year-old. (Audrey said, “Let’s play a game called, ‘Let’s see if you can sing a song that you know’. How you play is, you sing a song that you know.”) When we got to the game called… Continue reading Telling Stories
The Sienna Saga (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Minivan)
Last week, we were content with the two cars we had, planning to put all three of our kids in the back of Sarah’s Matrix when the baby was born. We knew we liked Toyota Siennas in general, since Sarah’s mom has one that we’ve driven around a lot, and they’re the most popular minivan… Continue reading The Sienna Saga (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Minivan)
Settling in
So we’ve been sleeping in our new house for a little more than a week now, and we are getting settled in. The biggest annoyance left is the fact that we don’t have a fridge in the house. (Sarah is planning to re-finish the hardwood floors in the front entry, hall and kitchen/dining room,… Continue reading Settling in
I Got the Box!
Moving always means scrounging boxes from wherever you can in order to get all of your stuff from House A to House B. In our case, we’ve been collecting boxes since before I left Channel 4 — paper boxes, Nexpress cylinder boxes, diaper boxes, etc. We hauled a lot of stuff down to… Continue reading I Got the Box!
Film festival, film festival!
So last night, Sarah and I went to the LDS Film Festival in Orem — the first such festival I’d ever been to. (Yes, I’ve lived in Utah for 90% of my life and never been to a screening at Sundance.) There were some signs of the pretentious artists who frequent these kinds… Continue reading Film festival, film festival!
You Gotta Love It, Baby
I got the chance to laugh at Sarah the other day while we were tossing around names for Baby Brother. (A few weeks ago, we were pretty much settled on Nathan, but we’ve since backed off it.) Our neighbors have a son named Stockton (after Utah Jazz great John Stockton), so Sarah said, “We could… Continue reading You Gotta Love It, Baby
Fan mail
Yesterday I got an email in Spanish through the contact form on my web site. It came from someone calling himself “rICHARD”, listing a very vague email address. It was titled, “lOSER, PERDEDOR”: wHAT ARE YOU DOING PUBLISHING A PERSONAL PAGE ABOUT YOUR LIFE, DO YOU THINK YOURSELF SOMEONE THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO ANYONE,… Continue reading Fan mail
“Presents on the tree”?
Today in the car with Sarah, Audrey heard the song “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” on the radio. I wasn’t there and didn’t hear exactly what she said, but when she heard the line Please have snow and mistletoe and presents on the tree, she said in effect, “You don’t put presents on the tree.… Continue reading “Presents on the tree”?