We took the boys to the George Carden Circus at the Hammond Civic Center on the weekend after Thanksgiving. It was a pretty good show for such a small venue (it was literally the size of a high school basketball gymnasium). Aiden had never been to a circus before, and he was captivated. I forgot how much circuses smell like,...
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“Bring Down The Sky”, the expansion content for Mass Effect, was good for a few hours of new gameplay. It starts as soon as you get aboard the Normandy and head out into space from the “Citadel”. Once you investigate a new asteroid on the “Stellar Map”, you are treated to a nice cutscene (one...
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A few years ago, there was a photo-captioning contest at a Transformers web site that I frequent, TFW2005.com. The idea was to add a funny comment to a number of Transformers pictures that they had selected, mostly screen shots from Transformers The Movie (1986). I’ve been known to do some neat stuff in Photoshop, so I...
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Chrissy recently found some time to take some Halloween photos of Aiden and Gavin. Yes, Halloween was two weeks ago, but it’s hard to find time for these things when you’ve got two kids! She could have easily blown it off, but Halloween photos are an important family tradition in our house. We’ve got fabric...
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My Dell XPS Gen5 computer was high-end stuff when I bought it in 2005. I updated the video card and memory last year at about this time, thinking that these would be the last upgrades that I would be able to make before buying a new computer. I was wrong though, since it turns out that my Intel 955X chipset motherboard was...
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Last night, Chrissy decided that Gavin should try something a little more solid than formula. So, she mixed up some baby cereal for him to try. It wasn’t much more than a thin gruel. He didn’t take to it very well, and pushed most of it out of his mouth with his tongue. Maybe he’ll be more receptive next...
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Aiden is a smart little boy. He shows good problem solving ability and is able to follow multi-step directions. He has an easy-going nature and is very loving to his baby brother. But Chrissy and I are worried because Aiden has a speaking problem. He used to babble a lot as a baby, but he never quite grew out of that; the...
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When I first turned eighteen, I was excited to vote in the 1992 presidential election. As a poor college kid, I disliked Bush, and I couldn’t wait to vote for Bill Clinton. When I finally got my chance to vote for the first time, I discovered that there were other choices there besides “President”. Which...
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