by Mir | May 22, 2010 | Health is overrated, Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Ottomatic For the People
So we’re just a few days into summer vacation, here, and so far it’s been a whole barrel of fun. If by “a whole barrel of fun” you mean “multiple trips to the pharmacy.” Remember last year when Otto got poison ivy and then it got...
by Mir | May 21, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", What do I do all day?
I am becoming a damn hippie in my old age. One of the things I like best about working from home is that it gives me the flexibility to do lots of things I could never do when I spent the majority of my day out of the house. Things like cooking and baking stuff that...
by Mir | May 20, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Hi, would you like to buy a Funk? It’s used—I used it quite a lot the last few days, to be honest—but it’s got lots of moping left in it, I’m sure. It’s available, cheap. I’m trying to quit. By the time the kids got home...
by Mir | May 19, 2010 | Books, Friends, Growing
I’m not here right now. Rather, I’m here, but I’m hiding. I am not being my best self right now, and as such I am looking for inspiration elsewhere on how people do the right thing even when, maybe, life is not feeling so right. Do you know what I...
by Mir | May 18, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Ottomatic For the People
My skin-flint-ed-ness (totally a word) is so legendary, that back over the holidays when we sprang for a new television set, everyone I told thought it was a joke (including my own children). Because I don’t spend money like that. Ever. So when Otto’s mom...
