Little E-xterminator

We’ve been getting into Daddy’s toy shelf more, now that we’re getting really tall and all.… Read more

We’ve been getting into Daddy’s toy shelf more, now that we’re getting really tall and all.… Read more
What’s Xena looking at?
Let it be known that if anything should happen to me, there’s an easily installed backup already in place, and it can do a lot of what I do. … Read more
Believe it or not, little E actually requested this good stuff for breakfast.
I made myself a well-decent salad this morning. Grated my own cheese and everything. I didn’t have much dressing – it turns out we were out of ranch dressing – but I managed to find a couple of little packets of Chick-Fil-A ranch sauce and dumped them in there. Probably added a thousand calories that way, but hey, it was tasty. Plenty of croutons too. Always plenty of croutons, or you’re just doin’ it wrong. When Little E heard the crunch, he was suddenly much more interested.
E: Dad, is that graham crackers?
ME: No, it’s croutons in my salad. They’re made of bread. You want one?
E: Okay.
[crunch crunch + pause]
E: It’s not like pizza.
ME: No, most people don’t put pizza stuff in their salad. You want another bite with green leafy stuff and some cheese? It’s good.
E: Does it taste like pizza?
ME: No.
E: I just want pizza.
I have to admire his honesty and his ability to start from the general and hang a sharp right turn toward the specific. He just wants pizza. For breakfast.
I suppose it makes as much sense as salad for breakfast, big guy.… Read more
Portia recently had a surgical procedure to remove her kitten-making equipment. I back up my cats nightly, so I don’t need her making additional backups. She’s recovering nicely though. Here she is recuperating while Little E watches cartoons.

And here’s how she craftily avoids the cat equivalent of hospital food. … Read more
We watched Finding Nemo tonight and then it was bathtime. While I was drawing the bath:
E: Dad, you’re the daddy fish. I’m the little fish.
I shouldn’t really read too much into that, but you know what? He’s exactly right. … Read more
E: Dad, what’s that?
ME: That’s called a waveform.
E: A waveform?
ME: It shows you what sound looks like. See, the more lines there are and the bigger lines there are, the more sound there is.
E: That’s what sound looks like?
[pause]
E: Dad, what does sound taste like?
ME: Chicken.… Read more
We had to spend an unnervingly large amount of my wife’s paycheck on a vet visit for Xena the other day. She hasn’t been the same since the weather got nice again and we let her go back outside – well, it’s more like we had to push her outside.

And therein lies the problem. … Read more
So you want to program a subroutine in BASIC, but your bose is dopped ub because you hab a code? Little E has you covered. Allow me to introduce… … Read more