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so…the insulation job is underway. It turns out that the gas company is going to give us a 20% rebate on the job — it’s like breaking up with a live-in girlfriend and then continuing to live in her house, rent free!
I was sitting in the living foom while the guys were working, and it […]

no…this isn’t a post on birth control and condom usage (although, there is no better birth control than a colicky baby)…today we’re having the house insulated!
no more empty walls. no more $650+ heating bills. no more looking at the thermostat that reads 70-degrees, know for damn sure that it’s only 50 in the room. no […]

so…Samson has received a ton of toys. Wait, I mean a TON of TOYS. Most of these toys are very educational — I’m amazed with how toys have changed…do they even make Tonka Trucks out of metal anymore? And then there is the Peek-a-Boo Rattle and the Jittery Jungle Pal.
The Peek-a-Boo Rattle is a little […]

so…my new laptop has been rebuilt and there have been no other problems, but I’m still hesitant to put all of my new back on it — until then, I’ve pulled some older stuff my Nomad.
Erin McKeown - Queen Of Quiet
Louis XIV - A Letter To Dominique
Rusted Root - Cat Turned Blue
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Spiritualized […]

What is it about new computers that make you want to “start over?”
Maybe it’s the new, clean desktop, and all of the available space, but it just seems like whenever I get a new machine I always have to do something new — I think I made the conversion from MT to WP when I […]

so…I bought a new laptop about a week and a half ago. I was pretty excited — it has been forever since I’ve had my own machine that wasn’t under the watchful eye of work, or that I wasn’t sharing with Erika. Well, 5 days after I bought it, the hard drive failed. It failed […]

Today is the annual Patriot’s Day Red Sox game. Gotta love morning baseball — nothing like beer and sausage at 11am!
It’s the 13th game of the Red Sox season, and probably the 9th that Samson has taken in on TV — okay, okay, “taken in” might mean “slept through” but babies absorb things as they […]

so…my dorky friend already beat me to the punch, but in my defense, his daughter has two-plus years on Samson, which equals more computer time…
if you’re using Gmail, you should definately be using Google Calendar. So what if the combination of your email AND your daily schedule is being storaged and indexed — what’s this […]

well..I think I would be required to post more often for this really to be considered anything but a deserted excuse for a blog, but since all of the blogs that I have been making lately seem to be about being a dad, it’s a dad blog — I mean I am a dad. When […]

Soothing the savage beast, calming a fussy child…those are the same thing, right?
Samson isn’t a colickly baby (*knocks on wood, metal, plastic, the cat…anything that is within arms reach*), but he does have wicked bad reflux, and Zantac can only do so much.
Jack Johnson - The Sharing Song
Phish - Possum
Phish - Glide II
Sufjan Stevens - […]