Wow! It's been an awfully long time since I posted here, hasn't it? What the heck have I been up to?

Let's see...

Carrie has started preschool, Aly is in second grade, Cody is in first. Tery's in her second year of law school. I'm still at Lexmark.

Tuesday night, I encountered a truly painful experience. I backed up my three partitions to a firewire external drive as disk images. Then I repartitioned my PowerBook to have just one big partition. When I went to restore from the external drive, one of the three disk images was no good. All of the files were on it in the right places, with the right sizes, but their content was all zeros. Unfortunately, this was the partition with all of my iTunes library and iPhoto library, including the pictures from our vacation to DisneyWorld and the Kennedy Space Center. I'm probably going to send the PowerBook's drive off to one of the recovery companies. Since, worst case, the files have been overwritten with zeros, the originals should be recoverable. Here's hoping.

Yesterday at lunch, Carrie picked up a garbanzo bean from her salad and said, "I don't like these. They look like bottoms." I found that remarkably hard to refute.

I'm over at mom and dad's so the girls can play with Gram. Having put on makeup to look like animals, the girls just went downstairs to welcome Grandaddy home. Upon seeing Aly, Grandaddy said "A cat, a doggone cat!" upon which Carrie cried "And a beastly animal too!"

We just got back from about a week at Disney World. It was Tery and I and Gram and Grandad (my parents) and Aly and Carrie and Cody.

We left Disney World Thursday morning and drove back. We were getting in to Lexington around 10:45 at night when the snow started. A few miles from our exit found us with three separate wrecks to pass and we slowed to a crawl. We had been thinking that the kids could get in to school on Friday and not have to chew up their fifth day of parentally excused absence, but it turned out to be a snow day anyway. Oh well.

Andrew Welch Quote

Some people's minds are like cement: all mixed up and permanently set...

H.L. Mencken Quote

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings, however, is justice.

Vir Quote

Mr. Morden: What do YOU want?

Vir Cotto: I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [waves] Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?

American Gods
The Old

• Wednesday - Odin
• Low Key Lyesmith - Loki
• Mr. Jacquel - Anubis
• Mr. Ibis - Thoth
• Mr. Nancy - Anansi
• Czernobog/Bielobog - Themselves
• Easter
• Mad Sweeny - A Leprechaun
• Bast
• Horus
• Mamma-Ji
• Apple Johnny
• Whiskey Jack

The New

• Media

This is my first post to this blog. I did it through the web interface. I expect to use NetNewsWire for future posts.