It has taken me a while to come to a place where I can write about last Friday’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. My first response was as it is for many news events—it is another horrible tragedy in a…
Yearly Archives: 2012
Oh the Indignity
When you entrust your prized childhood toys to your own kids, you can’t control the results. For example, this battle-ready AT-ST from the Star Wars collection, now used as “a cart for Fairy Moon Sparkle”. Look carefully, you can see…
Wut is Driving?
When it comes to any kind of weather, San Diego drivers are a bunch of morons. Take today’s rain event. In most places it would just be raining, here it gets a logo on the news and is an Event. …
Worst Kids’ Games Ever
In the same spirit as my Worst Bedtime Stories, I decided to recommend some fun games for Child Harbat this weekend. One suggestion, offered to CH and her friend while trying to get them away from thousands of dollars of…
The Nether World
Had a dream last night triggered by over-tiredness and hot covers. I was working in a crawlspace with my wife, a cramped space in the dirt lit by a single work lamp. Further under the building were old forgotten corners,…
Bag Dog
See, this is what happens when you let Babbo help with dressing your stuffies. This weekend Child Harbat and I spent some quality time dressing her stuffed animals. Poodlicious was brought out with a kitty friend and a basket full…
Baking Together
Last night I was making our weekly bread and Child Harbat begged me to help. She couldn’t wait to get her hands washed and the stepstool set up so she could work beside me, pouring the ingredients and mixing them…
Suspiciously Easy
As long-time readers will know, my title of Uncle F$#k-Up comes from a storied history of home improvement, maintenance, and kitchen catastrophes which start out with a simple problem and end with a larger problem. Multiple trips to the store,…
Number Two on the Move
Seen here on his first birthday, Number Two is exploring mobility. The speed of these things is phenomenal. The day of his first birthday he switched from commando-style-live-fire-under-barbed-wire crawling to the more traditional on-all-fours. The next day he pulled himself…
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What Nightmares May Come
I am tired today, as I have been all weekend. Our nighttime schedule has returned to what it was when Number Two was an infant, with multiple wake-ups during the night. But now it’s both kids, ages one and five,…
