cross your fingers…

Okay, perhaps I’m being a little optimistic out there, maybe I’m jinxing the whole thing, but we just put an offer on a house the day it went up on the market. And in this market, it’s the kind of thing you have to do. I suppose, to illustrate, a story may be in order.
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we’ve been ratted out, boys

Me: >glug glug glug<
Daughter: Daddy, why are you drinking from the bottle?!
Me: I’m thirsty. Just don’t tell your mother.
(pause)
Daughter: Mommy! Daddy’s drinking from the bottle!!
At least I know where I stand.

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mysterious disappearing bits of important metal

I know this is out of order with the whole “arriving in Kansas” bit, but as we were trying to put our bed together last night, we discovered that the middle support beam, the one that carries probably most of the weight, is missing. Gone. Vanished.
As we were unloading the truck, I remember removing it [...]

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the sum total of my work

1,125,556 keys pressed
216,679 mouse buttons clicked
35.142 km traveled by the mouse
from 9/22/2005 to 8/10/2006
and i’m a teacher. i can hardly imagine what those who actually work on a computer will produce in just under a year.

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Kansas (part I)

I just wanted to write a quick little note to let you know that we’re alive and how we’re doing so far.
After driving for three straight days, we arrived in Manhattan last Sunday (the 13th) afternoon. The drive wasn’t at all as bad as I had feared. We left around 4:30 each [...]

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Yikes! It’s a blog!

Wow…just, wow…I finally got one.
This little space here was born with one primary purpose. Given that we just moved about 1500 miles away from most of our friends and family and can’t really afford the long distance phone bills that such a move would be likely to generate, rik decided to set up a blog [...]

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