Olof took this high-speed video this afternoon as we drove to town to do a spot of shopping.  The twenty-minute trip is reduced here to a minute-and-a-half. [youtube]U88mvwdUeBo[/youtube]

We’re gearing up for a long night here.  Lydia is scheduled for a sleep EEG tomorrow morning at 7:15, and she needs to be up all night so that she’s tired enough to doze off during the test.  While I’m complaining, though, Lydia herself is all but celebrating.  Not only does she get to stay… Read More All night long

After days and days of snowfall, yesterday dawned bright and beautiful, if bracingly cold.  It was too pretty to stay indoors, so Olof and I bundled ourselves up and took a little walk to the pizzeria for lunch.  I took the camera along so that I could pass a little piece of this wintry splendor… Read More More snow pictures

It snowed all day Thursday and on through the night, and by the time it stopped we had half a meter of new, fluffy stuff on top of what was already accumulated in the yard.  Yesterday afternoon Olof and I took turns shoveling, but I must confess that the bulk of the work was done… Read More Snow day

Damn, kids, those were some tasty vittles. The potatoes and stuff is just a frozen mix from a bag (an appetizing mix to be sure, but alas, not of my own making), and the other bits are the figurative fruits of my latest hardcore vegetarian labors, homemade seitan, sliced and breaded in a blend of… Read More Vegetarian Food Porn

I’ve been on Facebook for a couple of years now, but until recently all of my friends there, with just a couple of exceptions, have been people I’ve met in my current life, since I moved to Sweden.  Lately, though, I’ve been catching up with a lot of people I went to high school with,… Read More Nostalgia

Well, not exactly.  Or not even close, really, but I’m always a sucker for alliteration, and a goodly portion of my eldest daughter’s hair is black now, so that ought to count for something.  Other than the part where I nearly blinded her, the whole dyeing bit went well, I think.  More important, the girl… Read More Girl Goes Goth

I went to my first Tupperware party tonight, and I bought stuff, and I enjoyed myself.  Doesn’t get much more real than that.