Garage Clean-up and Annual head Shaving

tom | December 30, 2005

I was able to wrap up the bulk of my garage cleaning today after having knocked out my additional storage. This place was an absolute disaster before I started working, mostly due to Christmas and general item creep in The Garage. Once I finished my new shelving it had become uninhabitable by man or beast [...]

Racecar Bed and a Race Against Time

tom | December 28, 2005

Monday night we decided to try moving Ben from his crib to Abigail’s old racecar bed. He did better than I figured he would but worse than I had hoped. Abby took to her new bed right away and managed to stay in it, even after she woke up in the morning. Ben has me [...]

Christmas 2005

tom | December 26, 2005

Christmas snuck up on us pretty quickly this year but for the first time in a long time I did not use Christmas Eve as my first and last shopping day of the season. I had two items to build this year: An electric motorcycle for Ben and a bicycle for Abigail. The motorcycle was [...]

Need HazMat Training

tom | December 21, 2005

This post needs a warning because I’m about to describe a fairly nasty event. Poor little [big] Ben has been sick for more than a week now and part of his suffering stems from the inability to poop for days on end. All that came to a disgusting end last night while Kerri and her [...]

Neighborhood Men’s Night Out

tom | December 17, 2005

We’ve been woefully short on evenings around the fire pit this year. I guess everyone is busier and more tired at the end of the day as compared to last year. When my work day ended yesterday I decided to pull a bit of a rude maneuver and call Darin to see if I could [...]