Nuthin Good

I bought a new toy the other day*, a Squeezebox Duet player to patch my mp3s into my stereo. So I got it all set up last night, and was happy as a pig in a poke a clam at high tide, being able to play my 55,000+ song list at the touch of a button.

Then the girls came in, and the following conversation ensued:

Abra (coming in): What's that?
Me: My new music player.
Abra: Can it play Justin Bieber?
Me: No.
Abra: Can it play the Jonas Brothers?
Me: No.
Abra: Can it play the Cheetah Girls?
Me: No.
Thalia (coming in): What's that?
Abra: Dad's new music player. But it can't play anything good.

sigh.


* Even as cheap as I am, I do buy toys once in a while. Although the last one was the HDTV in 2005.

Time for a change

OK, I figured a layout change would shake things up around here. This color/layout scheme looks reasonably easy on the eyes, which is my major motivator right now.

Also, my usual intro to the blog -- that it's about adjustment to family life -- seems to be old news. It's been 3+ years now since the women moved in, so the adjustment is over, whether or not I'm ready. Now I'm just plain old #9 on the pecking order, so that seemed as good a description as any to intro the new layout.

And if you're wondering, the pecking order is: Abra, Thalia, Brenna, Tango, Pearl, Healy, Nelson, Wacko, Me. If there is any disagreement about my #9 ranking, I will just point out that I'm the one who scoops up the poop of #4-8, so there's no way I will move ahead of any of them....

Thaliaigo Montoya

This past week the girls went to "Camp Invention", a week-long day camp where kids learn how things work. Among other things, we sacrificed an old phone and a toaster, which the girls took to camp and took apart to see what was inside.

But all the kids had to fashion their own name tags for camp, along the lines of "Hello, my name is...". This is what Thalia wrote for her name tag:



Heh. That's our girl!

(Before some of you worry too much that we are raising a sociopath, this refers to the classic line from the movie The Princess Bride, which the girls love....)