The Zog Blog

Though it has been pretty gray and foggy for the past week, I snapped this shot of our new backyard when it was sunny. And since it seems like most people I know need some sunshine in their lives right now…

I’m still working a lot from home, here, with a babysitter. It looks like [...]

My father’s sister Terri passed away Sunday afternoon in her home in Brewer, ME. She was 60. She is survived by her husband, children, and two granddaughters.

What that doesn’t tell you about my aunt Terri is that she made the best cream puffs this side of the known universe. My dad’s family got together [...]

(Is a very, very, very fine house.)

Things continue to improve and we’re all settling happily into our new home. I don’t know quite how to describe it, but this house has such a lovely, lovely feel to it. It’s light, and spacious, and has enormously high ceilings with exposed beams, and even though we’re not [...]

Well, I think it’s pretty safe to say we’re all immensely enjoying the new computer. One of Jacob’s favorite parts is the new Photo Booth program, which lets you take pictures through the built-in web camera. It’s not exactly an SLR, but it is mighty handy for taking quick family snapshots.

It’s so much nicer to [...]

Our little iMac, nearly 6 years old, finally died earlier this week. We’d been crutching it along for months, because financially speaking it wasn’t the right time to upgrade. Eventually, though, we had no choice. No computer at home == no work for me == much less money to go around. So, like it or [...]

…Jacob would like you to know that:

Friends are cool,

Trains are OMG FRICKIN AWESOME,

Challah is yummy,

And baths are sad.
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Also, we’ve now both finished reading the new Harry Potter book and expect that vaguely important things like eating and showering will resume shortly.

It’s been something of a transition, coming home this time. The weather has been gray, there have been a few (minor) crises here, things have been busy with chores.

But I feel like this weekend, we finally came out the other side and things are looking sunny-side up again. Although it’s just email at this [...]

Looking forward to some fun in the sun. See you all in a few weeks!

Things we have to do before hopping on a plane late Wednesday night: Approximately a million.
Things we did this weekend instead of getting on that travel prep?

Played with some water.

Rearranged some furniture.

Watered some plants.

Played the world’s first-ever teapot flute.
In other words, we had a great time and didn’t sweat [...]

It seems flatly impossible to me that over a week has gone by. Our dishwasher broke and we’re still waiting for a replacement, so I knew I was spending more time in the kitchen lately, but over a week? Yikes! Honestly, I don’t remember much that happened before Thursday. On Thursday, we went up to [...]

Summer has arrived on the Monterey Peninsula, which is really too bad, because “summer” here apparently means “cold and foggy”. We’ve had to use the heat more this weekend than any other time since moving here, and today I wore a thick sweater. Jacob seems impervious to cold.

Jon and I have spent most of the [...]

Yesterday? Not the greatest day. In fact, one of the more trying ones, in the dying-from-a-thousand-papercuts sense. But hey, it’s over. And I promise I’ll get to your comments and questions from the last entry soon. Of course, part of the problem was another slew of computer issues. Thankfully (and almost unbelievably), none of them [...]

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Did I really write “crisp but not cold temperatures” in that last post?
Uh, sorry about that, rest of CA. Just to show how wrong I can be, we’ve had below-freezing temperatures at night for what seems like FOREVER (but is at most two weeks). Houses here just aren’t built to handle the cold. Single [...]