Rianna and Heidi were explaining a play they had done for their brother Peter earlier today. After the play ended, they then went on to do the bonus features, since their play was apparently being released on DVD. They showed how the dragon’s treasure wasn’t real treasure at all, but was actually just plastic jewelry, […]
I’ve added a couple more links to the blog roll. Marla (Marla: I’m really happy you decided to start blogging – hopefully Brian will make a few guest appearances too!) and Rob O’Hara. I met Rob at ECCC 2006, and purchased his book called “Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie”. I just finished reading […]
It’s amazing to think that it’s been a full year since Kyla was born. We had got up out of bed at about 2 a.m. to drive to the hospital, and only 8 hours later we were driving home with another little Harbron. The nine months of parental leave flew by; I’ve been back at […]
Carla and I got married 10 years ago today. In some ways it seems like it could hardly be such a long time, we’re just getting started… but then, we’ve got five kids to show for it, and I can remember many joys and trials we saw in the two houses we owned for five […]
I’ve been back to work for two (short 4-day) weeks now, after my nine-month parental leave. I had a great time while I was off, fulfilling several life goals. But it’s also good to be back at work, with a new position and a new boss and plenty of potential future projects there that might […]
The SWRAP Chicago EXPO is cancelled this year, but we’re still going to have an event anyway – ECCC Chicago Expo, September 30, 2006. I’ve now put up two of my old Loadstar Letter articles on C64 programming – you can find them on my pages here. Might as well put in another plug for […]
A couple weeks ago I heard a weird rustling sound coming from the furnace room which joins on to my geek room. I crept in (feeling a bit extra anxious/wired because I had pulled another all-nighter to meet a deadline on the game I’m working on) and found that the sound was coming from behind […]
Happy Birthday Peter: 5 years old today. For Peter’s 4th birthday we made the Super Mario Cake pictured here. Carla did the majority of the work of course, but for a change I actually did a fair share. We had no idea that this would be such a popular picture. Unbenownst to me, but benownst […]
Here’s the other chocolate thing. I’m not even sure it was supposed to be a bass guitar, but it does have 4 strings, so let’s assume that’s on purpose. I wonder if there’s a term for the maximum “chocolate-resolution” they can get out of the medium and the molds? Maybe that’s why they went for […]
I got a few special chocolate things for Christmas (yes, it’s taken a while for me to get around to posting about it) from my kids that made me laugh. They’re all things that the kids relate with me. Being the eagle-eyed nitpicker that I am, I noticed problems with two of them that I […]