I am brilliant! I was sitting here thinking I wished I had some dessert (very unlike me), and I remembered that I randomly bought some pumpkin bread mix at Williams-Sonoma when I was at the mall earlier! Half-price. So that's almost ready for eating.

You'll have to tell us, Liese! I am like Kat in following your adventure. It's like This Old House, but I know the people!

I'm gonna have to get a smaller monitor, I think. This works fine but TOO BIG. Which means I'll need to order one. Apparently, few people want small monitors. Oh well. Anyway, now I know.

Can't get enough of the kid pix. Going to have to order copies of ones of me & Noah. Mom got a charge out of those.

I LOVE hearing the house building stories! So exciting.

Mom got a charge out of those.

Yay! You were able to get the 'rents to see 'em online?

It's like This Old House, but I know the people!

Hee. Also, in This Old House, things move faster. Or if, like, Bob Vila came to my house it would have been done in a half hour. Or at least several half hour segments.

And on This Old House, they never seem to finish a process and say, "Ugh! What is this on my leg?" (Today, the answer was, "That foam stuff. You know, the kind they say you can take off certain things with acetone. But if it gets on your skin, you just have to wait for it to wear off. Or your pants, evidently. Good thing it was the pair with the questionable skull paintings on it, and therefore already not an impress-the-parents-of-your-students pair.")

The new Futurama DVD comes with a bonus math lecture!

Well, sorta. They still are confounded by youtube. I will get them seeing the giggles and Grace when I next see them. And with flickr, I send them links to static pictures, so I pick and choose. It doesn't take that long to display a full page on dialup, but wave hands helplessly parents.

Oh, & lori, what was the name of that rare car your friend gets to shuttle? It escaped my brain.

And on This Old House, they never seem to finish a process and say, "Ugh! What is this on my leg?" (Today, the answer was, "That foam stuff. You know, the kind they say you can take off certain things with acetone. But if it gets on your skin, you just have to wait for it to wear off. Or your pants, evidently. Good thing it was the pair with the questionable skull paintings on it, and therefore already not an impress-the-parents-of-your-students pair."

Ahahahah! Oh & you can buy jugs of acetone at beauty supply places. In case it is really irritating.

I sent mom [link] and [link] , among others.

Noah's such a little man. Patootie.

Those are good ones. Couple a cutieheads in those pictures.

Shelby Cobras. He races 'em with his dad.