Tonight, we reached a milestone that we have long anticipated: Aiden has pee-peed in the potty for the first time. We’ve been sitting Aiden on his little training potty for about six months now, just to get him used to it, but he has never done anything in it before. Last week, Chrissy moved the training potty from his...
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My first video game memories were of the Atari 2600. I first saw one when I was five, and the controls were easy enough for me to play “Combat” against anyone. I still think that “Adventure” is the best game ever (“You were a DOT, man, and you LIKED IT THAT WAY!”). I eventually got one of my...
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On the day after Halloween last year, Chrissy and I bought a whole bunch of new decorations on clearance. In fact, Chrissy left early that morning in order to get the best deals on the 50%-off holiday swag, and she grabbed so much that she had to call me at home to come and man a second cart. We toted two jammed grocery carts...
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At the last Botcon, Hasbro announced a whole slew of new homage figures to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Transformers, to be released under the Universe moniker. Not only would more G1 characters be receiving new, updated designs (as in the Classics series), but characters from all Transformers lines would also be getting...
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Chrissy and I bought a “Sleep Number” mattress from the local Select Comfort store about two and a half years ago. Chrissy’s parents had let us try their Sleep Number mattress and we really liked it, so we decided to buy one because our old mattress was sagging terribly in the middle. The problem was that...
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Despite the flooding last weekend, Aiden and I tried to drive over to Target to visit the pharmacy. We couldn’t take the normal way, since Main street was closed between Kennedy Avenue and Indianapolis Blvd due to flooding. The second normal way was closed too, since 45th Street was also closed due to high water. We...
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The remnants of Hurricane Ike came up through the Midwest from Texas and hit Northwest Indiana hard. It rained for several days straight, causing all of the local rivers to flood. The Little Calumet river crested and flooded many Northwest Indiana towns along its banks. Nobody seems to notice the Little Cal until it rains too...
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I’ve been uploading a photo a day (actually three photos per day) to Flickr for the last 31 days. It hasn’t become an abominable chore yet, but I have found it difficult to make time for new pictures every day. It’s also a bit of a pain to edit every photo once they’re sent, since Picnik takes forever...
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