http://www.kimthew.com/ en-us matthew@kimthew.com 2008-09-03T21:07:31-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000252.html 252@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-09-03T21:07:31-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000251.html [Equipment courtesy of the hit series, AxMen, filmed near the Strassel compound.] 251@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-09-03T21:03:33-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000250.html 250@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-09-03T20:59:50-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000249.html [For our overseas listeners, a cheat sheet can be found here.] 249@http://www.kimthew.com/ Right 2008-06-22T19:10:42-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000248.html [Still lurking somewhere in the irises] 248@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-05-28T06:34:37-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000247.html 247@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-05-28T06:31:44-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000246.html From K: Oliver wants to live on Venus. I told him it was hot. He said he'd wear sunscreen. 246@http://www.kimthew.com/ Right 2008-05-09T09:32:41-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000245.html 245@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-05-04T19:36:33-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000244.html 244@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-05-04T19:33:44-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000243.html 243@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-04-05T19:25:53-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000242.html 242@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-04-05T19:23:09-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000241.html Report from K in re: potty training: I'm not sure why we ever worried Oliver wasn't smart enough to get this. Oliver gets it, to the extent that we are now being snowed. So this morning, he gets up, and we run to the potty, and he makes himself go. We get a star! We get M&Ms!! We sit at the table for about five minutes getting breakfast. Oliver polishes off the last of his reward M&Ms. He then informs me it is time to go to the potty again. We run to the potty. He concentrates, squeezes, shuffles around, squeezes more and makes a small dribble come out. Hurray! We get a star! We get M&Ms! Oliver runs back to the table. He is there about five minutes. He eats his last M&M...he informs me it is time to...go to the potty again. Do you see a pattern here? I did, after about the third time, and oliver's umpteenth M&M. I wondering if this isn't a metaphor for the housing crisis. Government tells people it is good to buy houses. They incentivize the buying of houses through oodles of cheap credit and mortgage deductions. People buy houses and buy bigger houses and buy second houses and they can't afford to pay!. And then the economy falls apart. I'm not sure how this metaphor translates in the end, back to the potty. But right now we are going through a lot of M&Ms. 241@http://www.kimthew.com/ Right 2008-04-02T13:59:58-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000240.html I confess I haven't done the calculations, but I wager that if you draw a straightish line between Buxton, Ore., and London, you might land in Queens, N.Y. At least, that's the accent Oliver has decided to synthesize based on his dual linguistic inheritance. Dog=Dawg. Bird=Boid. Jupiter=Jew-pidour. Who knows where this comes from. He was born in New York, but on the West Side. Maybe it was the chemical waft from Newark that did it and this is really a homage to the Sopranos. Also, K and I did watch and awful lot of Law & Order when we lived in Manhattan. Poor child. Add that to the faux south where he currently lives and he's going to develop an accent unrecognizable to modern anthropology. Perhaps it won't matter, as long as the bird doesn't chase the dog around Jupiter. 240@http://www.kimthew.com/ Right 2008-03-27T20:43:47-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000239.html [Uncle Nick's wedding] Before After [Must have been the champagne that brightened his mood] 239@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-03-12T13:42:52-05:00 http://www.kimthew.com/000238.html 238@http://www.kimthew.com/ Center 2008-03-04T21:57:40-05:00