Mark Frauenfelder's Best Advice

"Good, Inexpensive, Fast: Pick two."


Do you get it? 

Is planning really just procrastination?

"You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind." - Irish proverb
Does this mean I should stop planning the girls' Halloween costumes and actually start sewing them? Maybe...

My Girl

I'm not 124 years old...

but I did have a birthday today and we didn't have the right candles. Chris figured this out to use instead. It appealed to my sense of the odd.

Chris would like me to add that he didn't decorate the cake by himself. He didn't want you thinking that he writes like a 3rd grader :) However, a 1st grader did.

7th period

Most days, I feel like my eardrums are going to explode during 7th period...

I still like them though.

Homemade Stuff

My mother made the girls some things from clearance corduroy I bought last spring when the weather got warm and stores were left with too much warm weather cloth. Normal people don't buy corduroy in May but I've never claimed to be normal, have I? The girls loved their new outfits even if the pictures don't show that. Trying to get three young children to all look at a camera at the same time and smile is like trying to wrangle pigs.

Elections

"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."

       - Robert Byrne
I liked that quote. It sums up how I'm feeling about elections this year. Will you be voting? I will because casting my vote means that I have the right to complain about what's happening. If I don't take the responsibility to vote, I don't think I have the right to complain.