WhiskeyJack
Apr. 13th, 2013
09:48 am - A quote that I wanted to remember
"I did that," says my memory.
"I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable.
Eventually - the memory yields.
-Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Jan. 5th, 2013
10:20 am - Conversation with my son
Me: "Ian, why did you feed an entire bag of carrots to the dog."
Ian: "I didn't feed them to him. He STOLE them from me."
Unspoken Addition: "While I was rolling around on the living room floor, giggling, with a bag of carrots."
Oct. 25th, 2012
10:25 am - Princesses
Sylvia: "I want to be Sleeping Beauty when I grow up."
Me: "Really? What does Sleeping Beauty do?"
Sylvia: "She builds things and experiments. And she teaches people."
Me: "That sounds cool."
Sylvia: "Also she builds robots and turns bad ones into good ones."
Jul. 29th, 2012
08:45 pm - Best Amazon review ever!
From this product: http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-K2-ter
Quoted in full:
We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives.
PLEASE! You must listen! We cannot maintain the link for long... I will type as fast as I can.
DO NOT USE THE CABLES!
We were fools, fools to develop such a thing! Sound was never meant to be this clear, this pure, this... accurate. For a few short days, we marveled. Then the... whispers... began.
Were they Aramaic? Hyperborean? Some even more ancient tongue, first spoken by elder races under the red light of dying suns far from here? We do not know, but somehow, slowly... we began to UNDERSTAND.
No, no, please! I don't want to remember! YOU WILL NOT MAKE ME REMEMBER! I saw brave men claw their own eyes out... oh, god, the screaming... the mobs of feral children feasting on corpses, the shadows MOVING, the fires burning in the air! The CHANTING!
WHY CAN'T I FORGET THE WORDS???
We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives.
Do not use the cables!
Jan. 23rd, 2012
06:29 am - Hobbit-fest 2012
I've been talking about doing this but we finally got it together and made it happen: we had a party to watch all three extended versions of Lord of the Rings, back-to-back, while serving ALL of the proper hobbit meals (breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, tea, supper). It took more than 12 hours but we did it! And we consumed a vast quantity of food.
Breakfast: fruit and yogurt
Second breakfast: bacon & sausage, pastries
Elevenses: quiche
Lunch: shepherd's pie (cottage pie technically, since it was made with beef)
Tea: cucumber sandwiches, tea, any remaining pastries
Supper: rabbit in white wine sauce, mushroom-barley soup, spinach salad
Served throughout: fresh-baked bread with butter, mulled cider, more pastries
Nov. 29th, 2011
09:19 pm - One Week Before Sylvia's 5th Birthday
Roy: "Sylvia, you're going to be five!"
Sylvia: "I'm going to be five?"
Roy: "Yes, five."
Sylvia: "I won't be Sylvia anymore?"
Nov. 7th, 2011
07:20 pm - The Allen Key
Don't ask about this part but a million years ago when Roy and I were married we rode our bicycles to the courthouse. When I passed through security I dropped an allen-wrench (to adjust the bike) into the bucket.
The guard stopped me and asked what it was.
Me: "it's an allen key"
Guard: "what's that?"
Me: "an allen wrench?"
Guard: ... "what is it for?"
Me: (confused) "it's an allen wrench?" (how can he not know what an allen wrench is?)
Guard: "is it a weapon?"
Me: "No, it's an allen wrench."
Guard: "Can you hurt someone with it"
My mind races ....well it's a solid object so probably if I tried really hard? I bet if I jammed a pen up your nose I could kill you.
Out loud I said, "it's a wrench. I could take something apart with it."
Guard: grudgingly allows me to pass.
Nov. 26th, 2010
12:13 pm - RPG People - I have a question
What system should I use to create an Avatar: The Last Airbender game for my kids? I think it will fit best into a superhero genre game, but one that allows for a lot of customization. Back in the day I really liked the Hero system but it may be too complicated to use with the kids. The new GURPs 4th edition looks interesting but may have the same problem. What do you think?
Nov. 23rd, 2010
09:56 am - What's Frozen?
I have new game. I left some groceries in the car last night and brought them in this morning so I can play "What's Frozen?" It was in the teens last night and might be above 20 right now so I'm more surprised by the items that are not frozen solid.
Frozen:
olive oil
sugar water (for hummingbirds - not in the car)
Not Frozen:
cream
honey
ketchup
ham
Oct. 1st, 2010
04:51 pm - This week in pictures
These are some pictures from our first week taking classes at the homeschool resource center.
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