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Week of February 13, 2023
Sleep training toddlers is not for the faint of heart. Unfortunately, while sleep training a toddler this week, I learned that I am faint of heart. It did get easier by the fifth night. I don’t have a...
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Week of February 20, 2023
Busy week! My parents were in town last weekend, so I published my weekly post early and was offline for most of the weekend. They helped us put in new bookshelves in my office and moved the chalk...
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Week of February 27, 2023
Monday was my birthday! We celebrated the day before with a day trip to Kingston and Woodstock, where we visited a bunch of indie bookstores and two restaurants I’ve wanted to try. It was a really...
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Week of March 6, 2023
This week was kind of a blur. I had to go back through photos and text messages to piece it together. Charlie was home sick from daycare on Monday, which made us feel behind at work all week....
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Week of March 13, 2023
Amanda and I both got strep throat this week, Amanda early in the week and me at the end of the week. I’m writing this Sunday night in bed with a fever. I was supposed to be on jury duty tomorrow, but...
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Week of March 20, 2023
Spring is here! Nice to hear the frogs again in the wet areas of the woods. No wildflowers appearing just yet, but Charlie and I are keeping our eyes peeled on our walks. I like the woods in early...
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Week of March 27, 2023
Out in the garden, radishes and spinach seeds have sprouted. Inside, tomatillos and tomatoes are doing great, and red lipstick peppers just sprouted. Did you know most peppers and tomatoes are...
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Week of April 3, 2023
On Friday I built Charlie a climbing wall on one side of his swing set. He took to it immediately and surprised us with how well he climbs. I made the holds a little far apart for his feet, so we help...
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Week of April 10, 2023
Within the span of a week, the trees went from having no leaves to the majority having leaves! Things are looking pretty green. We’ve been spending a lot of time outside this week. Walks in the woods,...
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Weeks of April 17-May 1
I haven’t posted in a couple weeks. We were getting ready for a trip and then on said trip. We are home now and I’m back to my regularly scheduled blogging. We spent a week in California. This was...
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Week of May 8, 2023
Tuesday we were up and out early because Amanda had to go their NYC office, so Charlie and I ate breakfast outside and watched the trains, walked by the waterfront, and played at the playground before...
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Week of May 15, 2023
This felt like a pretty long week, though it is the same length as all the others. Amanda was out of town for a few days and Charlie got sick while she was gone, so I needed to take off work a couple...
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Weeks of May 22 & 29, 2023
I prioritized spending time with family and friends last weekend, so I am doing a combined post this week. My parents came to visit over Memorial Day weekend, and it was great to spend time with them....
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Week of June 5, 2023
The weather this week was weird. We had a hail storm on Tuesday, then smokey, hazy orange skies on Wednesday and Thursday as smoke from the Canadian wildfires moved in. I didn’t take photos of the...
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Week of June 12, 2023
Happy Father’s Day! I’m feeling extra thankful for our little family today. It has been a tough week with Charlie being home from daycare most of the week while we both had to work (all three of us...
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Week of June 19, 2023
This week flew by. Last Sunday after my weekly post, getting pizza at Hudson & Packard didn’t happen. After an hour drive with a toddler who didn’t want to be in his carseat, they were sold out....
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Weeks of June 26 and July 3, 2023
We are entering my least favorite part of the year: The hot, humid season. I can deal with dry heat, but the 85+ % humidity we’ve been having just zaps my energy. The plants love it, though....
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Week of July 10, 2023
It has been a very damp week here. It rained 6 out of 7 days this past week. We are glad we came back on Saturday, because there is a big chance the route we took would have been washed out around the...
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Week of August 7, 2023
Hi there! I took a bit of a summer break from blogging this past month. Here are some of the highlights: I went to San Juan, PR, for work. One of the cool things about working at Automattic is that...
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Week of August 14, 2023
We took Charlie out in the guideboat on Lake Sebago in Harriman State Park for the first time on Saturday and he had a blast. We did, too. Charlie loved rowing, did pretty well in the boat, was...
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Week of August 21, 2023
One cool thing that happened this week is one of my photos was selected to be in a special gallery at WordCamp US! I didn’t go this year, but some friends sent me photos. My photo is the one of the...
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Week of August 28, 2023
As mentioned at the end of the last post, we spent the week in Cape Cod for an end-of-summer getaway. We had a great time. The summer season was winding down, so the Cape wasn’t very busy, but almost...
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Week of September 4, 2023
New app I’m enjoying: Texts.com, an inbox for all of your messaging apps. Been using it all week and am not looking back. This week I kicked some home projects I’ve been neglecting into high gear....
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Week of September 11, 2023
Wildlife relocation count: Three groundhogs, two skunks. One groundhog eludes us. We had a nice Friday night. We went to the local used book store and Charlie showed some real interest in browsing for...
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Week of September 18, 2023
This was not our week. We ended a long, challenging weekend of potty training on a high note and felt pretty confident about Charlie telling us when he needed to go to the bathroom and holding it...
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Week of September 25, 2023
We are pretty much recovered from COVID, though we still fatigue faster than normal and food still isn’t tasting quite right. This week was a long and tiring one. Amanda had to work in Houston, TX,...
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Week of October 2, 2023
When telling a friend that we wish our house had more space, they helpfully pointed out that the nice thing about small houses is that families spend more time together rather than each person going...
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Week of October 9, 2023
Charlie had Monday off from daycare for the holiday, but Amanda and I had to work, so we switched off every couple hours. Charlie and I started off the morning by going to the coffee shop, picking up...
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Weeks of October 16 & 23, 2023
While hunched over in my IKEA Poäng chair looking at my laptop, I thought, “I wish there were a desk for this chair.” So I fired up my web browser and typed in the magic incantation, and Bateman Labs...
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Week of October 30, 2023
Back to work. It was a jarring rentry. The very first thing I saw when getting online Monday morning was a ping about an issue that had major customer impact. Talk about getting the adrenaline...
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Weeks of November 6 and 13, 2023
Busy couple of weeks. I didn’t write last weekend because I spent the whole weekend doing work around the house: Putting things away for the winter and mulching in the leaves outside, and moving...
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Week of November 20, 2023
I’ve been mostly offline this Thanksgiving. I haven’t checked anything for work, checked Twitter (or Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads), read my RSS feeds, or checked any news sites. I did play Wordle,...
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Week of November 27, 2023
A first for us: We decorated the Christmas Tree at 7am. That is when Charlie got up and was ready to go. We still need to dry the grapefruits to add to the tree. Every morning Charlie turns the tree...
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Week of December 4, 2023
I’m blogging later than usual because during my normal blogging times I was either out in the workshop turning things on the lathe, baking Christmas cookies, writing Christmas cards, making natural...
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Week of December 11, 2023
Christmas tree update: We added cranberries. We consider our tree a work in progress for all of December. I got out in the shop and made some more ornaments on the lathe. That might be it for this...
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Weeks of December 18 and 25, 2023 🎄
The end of both the autumn season and the calendar year. On the shortest day of the year we celebrated our friend Meg’s birthday at The Central, where her husband set up a surprise party and urged us...
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Week of January 1, 2024
New Year’s Day feels like the only real rest day we had during the holiday break. We made peanut butter bird seed pinecones for the birds. We took a walk in the woods. Charlie took a long nap and...
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Week of January 8, 2024
The snow melted by the end of the day Tuesday because of all the rain we had. More is forecasted for this week though! This has been a wild weather week around the US. On a single day, US folks on my...
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Week of January 15, 2024
The temperature has been bitter cold here all week. I don’t think it has gotten above freezing at all in the past seven days. I’m not complaining—I wanted a nice cold spell with some snow. Charlie’s...
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Week of January 22, 2024
So many courses and membership platforms with private log-in built on WordPress are trivially easy to circumvent because they don’t lock down access to the REST API endpoints. Related, Vimeo’s...
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Week of January 29, 2024
Charlie was home Monday and part of Wednesday because he was teething this week and had a cough in addition to the mouth pain. Unfortunately getting him to take any kind of medicine has been a...
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Week of February 5, 2024
I decided to go forward with the workshop upgrades, so that has been taking most of my time outside of work this week. The current plan: Insulate with radiant barrier. Diesel heater for heat. Put a...
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Weeks of Feb 12 and 19, 2024
The big event two weeks ago was a snow storm on Tuesday. We got 11″ of snow here in Peekskill, the most in the region. Daycare was closed, along with everything else, so Amanda and I switched off...
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Week of February 26, 2024
My birthday was this week! I wrote a post about it. I’m continuing to work on my workshop upgrade as much as I can. This week I: Added some light finish to my bench top (a blend of linseed oil and...
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Week of March 4, 2024
Lots of rain this week, so we did indoor activities like going to the library, going to the grocery store, and making ambulances out of boxes. This box is still in our living room, though now Charlie...
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Week of March 11, 2024
The warm weather and extra daylight at the end of the day has been a welcome change. Every night this week Amanda, Charlie, and I spent some time outside after daycare/work and before dinner. We are...
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Week of March 18, 2024
We’ve all been sick with a cold this week. Charlie got it first and recovered the fastest. Amanda got it next and was down Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I got it Saturday afternoon and was down most...
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Week of March 25, 2024
Going to be a shorter post tonight. I’m tired from a day of shoveling compost and dirt to finish the garden beds project. We ended the day by sowing peas, radishes, spinach, and cilantro. Check out...
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Weeks of April 1 and 8, 2024
I didn’t write last week because I was out of town. Here is a recap of the last two weeks. As I wrote about in the last post, my Mom was here to visit and watch Charlie since he had the week off...
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Week of April 15, 2024
I’m writing this while recovering from strep, which I also got last year. Probably the same source (Charlie via daycare.) Hopefully the antibiotics kick it quickly. I’ve avoided the worst of it by...
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