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Reviewing 2009: family, housework, research, and travel.

A roundup: Thanksgiving visit from my folks, college football championship season, winter means house work ends. And I’m still not brewing.

After a few years, our kitchen renovations are done. Photos galore.

Renovations: new roof, gutters, paint, kitchen tile.

No, not my age. This:

I recently installed an under-counter microwave in our kitchen. That’s a photo of the 30″ template I was supposed to use for placing screws, drilling holes, etc. Yes, that “thirty inch” template is about 3/8″ too wide. (It was too deep as well.) Good thing (1) I’ve seen enough bad press [...]

Let’s review:

Jan 5: Madelyn starts the Big Girl sleep plan. I’m happy to say this continues; the Bee is pretty easy to put to bed now.
Feb 21: I get an awful flu bug, missing classes and losing eight pounds in less than a week.
Mar 10: A misstep down the stairs, and I [...]

Using Google Docs for managing student work is great. Except when the power goes out. We had a pretty bad ice storm last Thu PM/Friday AM. Besides ice raining down on the house all night, the snapping tree limbs and exploding transformers woke me and/or Madelyn multiple times. Our power went out for good in [...]

Some of the awful “home improvement” work I’m undoing and fixing

Kitchen counters: prepare to meet the hammer

Catch-all: strawberries, cleaning, accessibility internship, writing a review