Month: December 2016

Yule Get Nothing and Like It

You’ve let me down again, AT&T. The [Death] Star of Bethlehem Every year around the holidays, we put a weird channel on our U-Verse service and let it play for hours on… Read More

Storytime

It’s not easy finding the perfect book for storytime, you know… Nope. Nah. Nein. Nyet. Ixnay. And we go through all this just to end up back in on Jib’s bed reading… Read More

Sinister Siri

It would appear that there are malevolent forces lurking within our iPhones. That’s right.  I’m talking about Siri, the personal voice assistant. I say this because every time I ask Siri to… Read More

A Tale of Two Chances

I guess it’s a good thing we didn’t chance driving down to Dickens on the Strand on Saturday. The good news there is that they’ve rescheduled the event for next Saturday, so… Read More

Pickin’ Dickens

It being the first weekend in December, this is normally when we would head down to Galveston for the annual Dickens on the Strand festival. Alas, the weather is supposed to be so godawful… Read More

Pretzel Naps & Paychecks

Some random thoughts for the day… Yes.  Daphne can sleep like this, even when leaning against a snoring Jib, for hours at a time. If I were to contort into this position,… Read More