So, it?s been a while. Lots has happened. Overall though, things have been fairly quiet. My laptop died, for starters (or at least the charger did) so I haven?t been writing because of that, and not because I?ve been too lazy or worthless AT ALL. So we decided to quit smoking because we were thinking […]

My niece forgets things. I have the most beautiful and wonderful little 8-year old niece on the planet… …but she is somewhat forgetful. She writes me notes with things like, “Judders cho titi poop dose zebra bot-bot twitches. This guy is plering at you”, complete with a drawing of a happy face with his tongue […]

About the same time that I started to feel all unloved and non-missed and wondering if anybody in the whole of the planet misses the Ol’ JuddHole I realized that I’d simply spilled my beer on my crotch. Once the feeling of bitter coldness worked its way out of my nether regions, I checked my […]

As it means that I get to not only take nudey pictures of Wife, but also post them (on hers too), when she requested that we take part in Half Nekkid Thursday, I agreed in the same amount of time that it takes my synapses to send ExcitedyBoner signals from Big Brain to Little Brain. […]

After smacking her head, or any other appendage for that matter, on anything hard or potentially-damage-dealing, my little girl reflexively squeaks out, “I’m aw-wight!” It’s something we get used to hearing after any louder-than-average crash from the other room, though not near as much as any stock excuse starting with “I was just wookin’ at […]

My five-year-old has just informed me about his love for cupcakes, despite the fact that “cupcakes ah also fahts, daddy.” Heh, I’d forgotten that. I’ma get ‘im with that one later… Father-in-law, Poppy, is a smallish, wiry, thin, deceptively strong old man, but he occasionally requires a bit more muscle when working any number of […]

The days and weeks preceding the holidays were a time filled with stress for he and his lovely wife, not to mention the two little walking barometers in the house. The excitement and anticipation of their trip back to America notwithstanding, leaving his kids for two weeks wasn’t something he was looking forward to. The […]

The keys have been returned, the lease is done, our responsibilities… over. Bah, only part of the above is true. The Final Inspection (sounds serious as a testical malfunction doesn’t it?) is tomorrow, and if anything is wrong, say the house is still the dump that it was when moved into for instance, then we […]

When CrazyCatLady casually mentioned that she grooms the dog of one of my fellow Americans, I was more entertained by the notion of an enormous, bald, black dude with a little, white, YappingRat, than I was of hearing the accent of one of my countrymen. I happened to be over at Mum-in-law’s one afternoon when […]

Last Saturday night, OtherSister invited Wife and I downtown to meet up with her visiting BritCousin, LocalCousin, and brother. Still lacking suitable transportation of our own, we happily utilized the brand-spankety-new Thornlie Train Station and headed into the city. After speed-walking the length of the enormous platforms and climbing up the stairs to view from […]