I’ve been up for hours as the rest of my family slumbers away.  I was unable to get back to sleep after a 4:30am diaper change for our newborn.  My wife had no such problems, but the little noises that babies make as they try to get themselves to sleep just kill me some nights.  [...]

I’m home for a few weeks after the birth of our son.  Without work and spending much of my time talking to my two-year-old daughter, I feel the need to simulate my mind a little bit.  I’ve always enjoyed playing chess, though I’ve never been a good player by any stretch of the imagination.  Playing [...]

You’d think with a long weekend (especially one with a family holiday), there would be plenty of opportunities to take some pictures.  Well, we managed to spend much of our time trying to decide how best to blow spend our money.  As such, I only took a couple of pictures this weekend of the two-digit [...]

A while ago, I had a previous incarnation of a blog here, but I didn’t do much with it.  I do seem to be getting quite a few hits looking for one of my older posts, however.  It is kind of disturbing that people are so interested in seeing a picture of my (previously) broken [...]

Gearing up to head home and have the big family night out: Chick-Fil-A at the mall.  It’s become a family tradition over the past year.  While not the absolute healthiest place to eat, it’s better than a lot of fast food and our daughter loves the fries.  So out we go every Friday night, after [...]