Well, another school year is underway.  Emma is now in fifth grade, Alex is in first, and Hannah has started kindergarten.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be there to send them off, but Holly walked to school with them and made sure that they found their teachers without any problems. Yesterday when I came home from work, I made sure that I asked each one of the kids what their favorite part of the day was.  Alex liked lunch.  He...

Since I know a few people who are currently looking for work, I thought that I would post this short video that is sure to help everyone in their job interviews.  If you question just how well it can help you, I have just two words for you: it’s Batman.  Are you saying that Batman cannot help you?  Because if you are, that’s just sad and you’re very, very wrong. On an unrelated note, I know that our poor blog has been...

I hate being sick.  Fortunately for me, I’m not.  Yet.  I stress the word yet because it’s bound to happen. Over the weekend, Alex started feeling ill.  It started with a cough on Saturday afternoon.  By Saturday night, he was so tired that he fell asleep while watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.  Him falling asleep while watching movies isn’t unusual but it was still pretty early in the...

As many of you know, I have been working as a beta test coordinator for a company called Centercode, Inc. for the past two years.  As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end.  Unfortunately,  my job was not immune from this English proverb and I was laid off last week.  I take comfort in knowing that I wasn’t the only one who lost their job that day but it’s never fun to leave a job that you love going to...

Well, summer has unofficially ended which means that it’s time once again to go back to school.  Emma and Alex are both going to the charter school near our home this year which is new for them.  Because it’s a charter school, they get to wear uniforms.  Surprisingly, this hasn’t really caused any issues.  Neither one of them seems to mind looking like everybody else.  I expected Emma to make a stink about not being...