avablog

My mother has generously provided for a new Burley for Ava to ride around in once she gets a helmet. Today I put it together and got it hooked up to my recumbent in preparation for the biking season ( I’ve been a bad biker and haven’t been on my Volae all winter). This is […]

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Or something like it. Yesterday Ava was outside in the yard with us when she started to fuss. It was weird, because she’d been playing around quietly by herself for an hour and didn’t appear to have any reason to be upset. We took her inside as her crying got worse. Then, out of the […]

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Thick fog lay between the houses and in the branches of the bushes and trees on our block this morning. The air is heavy with the aroma of budding leaves, and thin twigs grow slightly less-thin as sap runs under their delicate bark. The daffodils that grow in clumps at the border of the back […]

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Maybe I’ll go to Hell for bragging about my wife. Maybe it’s just unseemly.  So be it. When I look at Leah I feel like Patrick Dempsey in Can’t Buy Me Love when the hottest girl in school says she’ll go out with him (yeah, he has to pay for the honor, but he’s still […]

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In deference to my in-laws, most of whom have a fairly low tolerance for technology (with one notable exception), I don’t make too many computer-related posts on this blog. But Apple did something today that stands to change the way people buy and use personal computers, and that’s big news. Starting today, you can officially […]

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It’s getting pretty exciting around here. Today’s gorgeous sun and warm temperatures were just too much for this daffodil to take, so it started to spring open. There are a couple others nearby, as well as some fern peony shoots and a bunch of thick, hearty tulip leaves that have little nibble marks all up […]

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This morning Leah stood in line next to George Lucas at one of the local coffee shops. Turns out he’s in town to visit with University of Iowa Professor Nancy Andreasen, whose research centers mainly on the relationship between creativity and mental disorder. One can only deduce from these facts that Nancy is trying to […]

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We had a nice weekend in IL. The two basketball games we watched weren’t very good, and George Mason’s improbable bid for a national title has ended. Too bad. So sad. I’ve got new pictures up in the gallery, which, as it happens, has been updated to version 2.1. I’m not sure I love the […]

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