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Summer has kicked in, and the Blog has officially entered a slow period. I’m off camping with my boys for 7 weeks. I’ll leave you with this, found on my good friend Rob Peters site. He doesn’t know the source, so if someone does, let…
I don’t twitter, tweet, twat… whatever it is you call someone that uses twitter. That being said, I found this link on Robert Sawyers blog, and it’s pretty darn good: A 29 year old son lives with his 70+ Dad. His twitter page is all…
A few years back, I was asked to leave my job by my wife. Her work was stressful, and getting more-so, and it was getting difficult to balance our family responsibilities with those of our work. I also wasn’t happy where I was, so it…
I figured I’d write a post about what I accomplished in 2008. This is it. I’ll also add what I hope to accomplish with each item in 2009. WordSlinger Beta released. WordSlinger is an Integrated Development Environment for writers. It’s geared towards the way I…
I thought I’d post a brief update on where things are at: I’m camping with the boys again, trying to squeeze in an extra week before school starts. I’m hoping to get a couple of weekends in as well, but we’ll see. I’m continueing to…
To my faithful reader (singlular), I apologize for the lack of posts. I’ve had a contract job since early this year, and on top of putting in 6+ hours a day on that, I’ve also kept up my stay-at-home dad responsibilities. This week, I’m doing…
Apparently, being a stay-at-home dad is still something of an oddity. A friend of mine put a freelance writer in touch with me. It seems she was writing an article for a new magazine called Sharp. The article was about stay-at-home dads, how they handled…
Both our boys have birthdays in October. Two days apart, in fact, and it can make for a very hectic time in the house. We had a kids party on Friday with 2 guests for our now five year old, a kids party on Saturday…
It's official, summer is over. My oldest started Grade 2 on Tuesday, and my youngest starts Kindergarten (full-time, mornings) on Monday. We managed to squeeze in one more frog hunting expedition and one more day at the beach. The beach ended up being a tad…