Moose and Ink

  Light at the end of the tunnel or a train coming to run me down? Won’t know until mid-February.  But I’m still here for now.

2012 was a year that can only be classified as far flung, fun, frustrating, and fulfilling.  In the past twelve months, we’ve traveled to a foreign country, made the house our own, saw a promotion, almost saw publication, and ended it with a snazzy new means of getting around town.…

Many years ago, my parents went out for ice cream and came back with a new car.  Since then, ‘Getting Ice Cream’ in my family meant someone was getting a car. Today, Steph and I got some ice cream. The 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid SEL. We drove up to the…

Things get a little crazy around here this time of year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Dear Steph, It’s been a little over 36 hours since you left on your business trip to Chicago and things back here at home have been a little … rough. Things were going well up to the point that Tim Tam realized you were gone.  I think this came to…

“That’s a lovely computer you have there. Be a shame if something … happened to it.” — Windows Update, December 12, 2012 In a sign that computers are growing self-aware, my machine decided to kill itself by downloading the latest updates for Windows Vista.  Those updates promptly trashed the system*.…

Here’s my bi-weekly update to prove that I’m still alive.  I have this fear that folks will think that I have been sucked into some temporal vortex where little gremlins will tear me apart and replace me with a shell that is populated by even smaller gremlins that will live…

Steph is gone on yet another business trip, leaving the kids and I to fend for ourselves.  In times like this, everyone pitches in to make sure all the chores get done in a timely matter.