Category Archives: dot family

The face that launched a thousand cards

July 19th, 2008 – 00:29

Sometime in early January 2006, La Angela took Baby Emma out on her first walk. Emma was about 3 weeks old. Wifey, looking for picture fodder for her newly-deployed husband, took our nice DV cam which had a crappy 1.3-megapixel camera function and took a horridly off-center but cute picture of Emma. [...]

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Update on Danny Wayne Springfield

May 19th, 2008 – 19:30

It’s been a long, hard trip for Mom (aka “The Mimi”). Reminder, to bring you up to date. The news report mentioned that she broke her arm. It didn’t mention the surgery, and the permanent nerve damage, and the partial loss of use of her hand and arm.
After several appearances in court, [...]

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Whereupon I whine about my life

February 18th, 2008 – 17:18

It’s been a week since I last posted.  I know, I know, I was doing so well… this is the longest break I’ve had in 58 days.  I was doing so well.
It all started with a flu/bronchitis/generally-feel-bad bug that started going around, and a babysitting gig.  I had taken a 4-day weekend to get a [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2007 – 12:58

A very merry Christmas to my family, and my friends, and all my internet and blogging buddies.

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Happy Birthday Grammie

November 11th, 2007 – 17:36

Not a day over 39.

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San Diego fires, Thursday update

October 25th, 2007 – 22:35

Real quick, ’cause it’s late and I’m tired:
The networks are sick of the coverage, we’re back in “normal” mode on TV.
Qualcomm’s closing at Noon tomorrow as far as evac shelters go. They say the population’s dwindling. Not surprised. If they didn’t close it, the homeless would migrate there and it’d be 2 [...]

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Helping Daddy

October 24th, 2007 – 15:49

Helping Daddy by Big Guy.

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