Revelry Reverie

I was reading And Then There Were None today, and Agatha Christie described the start of the storm on Indian Island as rain hissing down. Sitting in my office having just finished my lunch, I closed my eyes, and yes – the sound the rain was making outside my little window did sound like hissing.…

My daughter’s team is at the Odyssey of the Mind World’s competition in East Lansing, Michigan. I am with her! Since I can work from anywhere, I’ve been working from my dorm room (lol), and joining the team for things like the opening ceremony and some meals. Their long-term problem presentation is in about 40…

Grant bought me a necklace for free the other day from a neighbor’s yard sale. It was a quarter, but the neighbor let him have it for free. Grant tried to take him a quarter, but he wouldn’t take it, which was kind. And then Grant tried to help him sell, which I put a…

I saw that some people looked at this post today: https://wp.me/p2kj51-l9 And it made me realize that even before Grant got obsessed with Oliver Jeffers (we have many of his books, including a few that are pretty existential), we returned to his stories again and again. No real point to this post, I suppose! Just…

I got a new role at work today. On Wednesday, nearly a full week ago, we were all rocked by a 16% layoff. Tumblr was hit pretty hard, and we lost a lot of great people. We were also fortunate in that we kept more people than Tumblr needed, and found other roles for them…

I was playing with chatgpt with the kids, and we had fun with the image rendering feature. Each kid wanted something a little different. They gave me general direction and I prompted chatgpt – these aren’t the prompts. Henry: “have it look just like me, maybe a little brighter, but like totally neutral face.” Result:…

Grant wanted us to take a photo of us in our matching shirts, in front of “the nicest spot in our house” (the fireplace). He has good instincts!

Yesterday we visited the Hoover Dam. It was also called Boulder Dam, which perhaps was its name prior to being called Hoover. The exhibit area was closed for refurbishment, so I was unable to excitedly read about it in detail. There were other informational signs, though, so not all is lost. For an instance, the…

Yesterday we went to the Grand Canyon. A very simple, understated name for something that is most certainly both grand and also a canyon. I’ve never seen a photo or video that does it justice, so I apologize in advance for even including photos here. I haven’t spent much time in the American West. I’ve…

I’ve been working on a drawing of Eleanor from Oct 2019. She was a week away from turning 8! Apparently we were at the ice rink (where Grant and Bob play hockey now, and Grant is 8.5 now). It’s still got a way to go. I am using watercolor paper, which I like for the…