Ann went over to a friend’s house the night before and was spending the day over there, so William and I had a whole day to ourselves. In the morning, we played Minecraft for a while and built a long path through deserts, jungles and mountains full of tunnels, bridges and other markers that would […]
This parody was written after a weekly meeting that usually runs for a long time ended pretty quickly. With the unexpected time on my hands I suppose I could have gotten some work done, but instead I wrote this. (To the tune of “American Pie” by Don McLean) A long, long time ago I can
Across from our house there’s a drainage basin that ends up feeding the Rouge River. There’s also a bit of wooded area around that. Over the past week there has been a lot of noise from the other side of the basin and sadly a good portion of the trees have been cut down. The
For Father’s Day, the kids and I took a walk around Ann Arbor. This was planned and even though it was raining hard when we started, we decided we’d do it no matter what the weather. As it turned out, the rain stopped as we arrived even though we were ready to be drenched. We
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Thanks to all who have given their lives while serving in the Unites States Armed Services. If you don’t know, William’s middle name is in honor of one such person. You see, William’s great grandfather on his mom’s paternal side was a Marine. During World War II, he was sent to fight in the Pacific
For his last birthday, I bought William a multi-purpose net. The main driver was that we had destroyed a soccer ball by kicking it against the concrete porch too much. Why were we kicking it at the porch? Well, at that point we used a couple of the porch columns as goal markers and between
Saturday was a day of cooking and driving. First up at 9AM was Liam’s second practice with his baseball team. We all manage to roll out of bed, get ready, and head out to drop him off. Ann and I then head to the grocery store to pick up lunch and dinner supplies for today
For a project at work we kept a dashboard of tasks, due dates, and a color status depicting how on track we were to meet the deadline. Green meant that things were on target, yellow meant that there were potential issues that would put us behind, and red meant that we had missed the deadline.
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For this year’s family vacation my parents took us to Niagara Falls and Toronto over Easter break. The idea was to drive through Canada to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and spend a couple days there, head up to Toronto and spend a couple days there then head back home. As in any family
Ann’s birthday is coming up and for the past few weeks we’ve been coming up with a plan for her party. When I initially asked her what she wanted to do the first question out of her mouth was, “how many people can I invite?” Huh? I thought we’d figure out the “what” and the
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