The LeinsterFreecycle group has been renamed to FreecycleDublin (we want to make the group smaller, and encourage others to start more local groups in their areas in Leinster). So if you are on it, please change your email addresses/bookmarks. And now to prepare for the influx of people who are on no-email on Yahoo and have no idea what’s going on.
I found a new CSS trick yesterday. If you have a block of CSS that messes up other browsers but Mozilla browsers stick it it a @-moz-document block, like:
CSS for every browser here
@-moz-document url-prefix()
{
Mozilla only CSS here
}
It would be really cool if every browser had some sort of @ rule to parse out browser specific code like this rather then using tricks.
Elana was going out for a while. I was in the kitchen and told her I’d be getting Patrick’s breakfast together and then feed Eoin with the recently-expressed bottle that was in the fridge. Patrick overheard the conversation from the livingroom.
“Dad, how can you feed him? We don’t have (some garbled words).”
“We don’t have what?” I asked, almost knowing the answer—almost.
“But we don’t have any lungs, so we can’t feed him; only moms can! They have lungs.”
“Lungs?”
He responded with his very declarative, “Yes!”
Ok, today we’re explaining breasts. What’s next?
P had a classmate over for the afternoon to play. During a bit of lunch, they had wide and varied conversation topics. At one point, the focus turned to an interesting debate.
“There was a spider in our bathroom, but now it’s gone,” P informed his friend.
“I don’t like spiders,” the friend responded.
“But your mom likes to eat spiders!” Patrick declared.
“No, I think it was your mom,” his friend replied.
“I’m serious. Your mom ate them, you told me.”
“Oh yeah,” his friend admitted. For only a moment. “No, actually, I think it was yours. But watch what this spoon can do!”
And they composed music with their bowls of chicken salad.
Today in the post we received a letter from the Revenue Commissioners letting us know that we’ve been selected for a Revenue audit for 2004. Gulp. Luckily we’ve got great accountants in Dublin who’re about to get the three file folders’ worth of stuff I kept, and they can go back over everything to make sure it all adds up. I guess this is an event that has to happen in your life—but I could sure do without it.
The Iowa caucuses are a wee bit less then a year away.
Wikipedia currently displays nine candidates for the Democratic nomination for president. Little Green party member me thinks there are one of two of them I might vote for in the general election even if there is a Green party candidate, and I’m not only talking about Mr. Kucinich!
Wikipedia displays ten Republicans. I liked Mr. McCain in the 2000 primaries, and I remember thinking a year ago that he could get my vote in 2008. If loose lips sink ships, his lips have been very loose. None of the other people I know would ever get my vote, but I don’t know most of them.
If 2004 and 2000 are any indicator, both parties will elect the worst candidate from the list and the USA will all suck picking the better of two evils again. I’m already jaded by the 2008 elections. I plan on trying to grow brussels sprouts this spring, I wonder when I should get the seedlings started.
About a year ago we got a copy of Ten Little Dinosaurs by Pattie Schnetzler (and cool illustrations by Jim Harris). It flows really well, and gives some fun words to pronounce:
Ten little dinosaurs bouncing on the bed,
Pachycephalosaurus fell off and broke his head.
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,
“No more boneheads bouncing on the bed.”
It’s been used as a bed-time story (or any-other-time story) quite a few times since we got it.
This morning as a way to pass time before leaving for school, he opened up a coloring book and his case of crayons, pencils, and markers. Looking for a page not yet completed, he stopped on one page and asked me, “Dad, why does the pterodactyl have tiny feet?”
Wow, he remembered it! I wonder if he’ll get his PhD and live in New York City with other 20–30 year-olds? 🙂
It what has got to be a sign of Ragnarök, Evangelicals, Scientists Join on Warming. In other weather related news, for the first time this year I had to scrape frost off my car window!
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