Did you read to me?
We went to bed pretty tired, but Allison wanted me to read to her, so I did. (We are reading together Washington Square). After about 10 minutes I noticed she was sound asleep so I put the book away and turned off the light, which woke her up. She woke …
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Happy birthday Hayden!
Allison was the first one to call Hayden for his sixth birthday. Her thinking went like this: Thought #1: it’s Hayden’s birthday today! Thought #2: They’re in Hawaii now. It’s 7am here in the Bay Area and it is a 3 hour difference, so it must be 10am over there, …
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Clean bluetooth
I’m traveling tomorrow and my favorite bluetooth headset has been missing for a couple days. I was hoping it would appear today. Allison was doing laundry and called me into the laundry room. There was music playing from the washer or dryer, it seemed, and she didn’t know where it …
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Roller paper casualty
First roller paper casualty after we started storing toilet papers in the new cabinet above the toilet (and I dropped it inside the toilet). UPDATE: Allison just asked: ‘what’s roller paper?’. I meant… toilet paper…
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Greasy ringing
If I get food onto airplanes, I usually get cold food like fruits and sandwiches, so that it doesn’t smell for other passengers. That’s what I did on my first flight. But I had a tight connection and what I found between flights, in my Chicago connection, was a pizza, …
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No trails around here
Allison and I are in Bethesda, MD. I tagged along. This morning Allison asked in the lobby where we could run to and the lady said there were no beautiful places around here but gave her a map and a street loop to do. So I followed Allison while focusing …
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Skunked?
I noticed that our cooler was still on the deck from the party we had three weeks ago. I went to put it away and it was heavy, so I looked inside and there were some beers in it, no longer cold of course. I was bummed since I learned …
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Separated without separation anxiety
When I leave for meetings I always take my bag with my computer in it. That’s to prevent anxiety in case a meteorite destroys the highway and separates me from my computer. I came back from a meeting in San Jose, parked the car, came into the house, said hi …
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