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Chinese New Year trip to Malaysia Pt. 1
The Trip There I’d fly Cathay Pacific again. And leaving on a Thursday was a good idea – the plane was half empty, and we were able to spread out comfortably. Joey was good – but his little friend behind … Continue reading
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Books of note: Kylie Chan’s Dark Heavens and Journey to Wudang series
White Tiger by Kylie Chan My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just blew through all six books. This is the first fantasy series I’ve come across that incorporates Chinese mythology – it was really nice to learn a little … Continue reading
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Minifying CSS vs playing nice with Safari
Sigh. Please note: if you’re minifying your css, Safari doesn’t like it if you have multiple “@charset” declarations in the minified css file.
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Choo choos and Godzilla Dialogs
We went to the 22nd Greatest Ferret Show on Earth a few weeks ago. Tom thought Joey would like seeing ferrets – I think he just wanted to tempt me into getting ferrets again. Or maybe it was a little … Continue reading
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Haircuts and summer
We recently found a Geek Parents Network meet-up group (there’s all kinds of meet-up groups) and – well – met up with some other parents with common interests in geeky things like gaming, sci-fi/fantasy, anime… and were introduced to a … Continue reading
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Chinese language class
We checked out a toddler Chinese language class last weekend down by Lincoln Park. I don’t remember what prompted me to sign us up for this, but the upshot is I found three competing language “schools” that offered toddler language … Continue reading
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New environment for Joey – and serious attachment to Thomas
We got a phone call Sunday night – and it turned out to be our daycare lady. “Hi, I have a surprise for you tomorrow! “Oh? What is it?” “You will have to bring Joey to our new place!” “Oh! … Continue reading
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Sentences
Latest Joey sentences: “More pissa pees” (more pizza please) – figures my son would insist on having pizza. And his daycare lady succumbs and gives him pizza rather than have him go hungry… Will have to get more specifics on … Continue reading
Two birthday boys
We celebrated two birthdays this weekend 🙂 One for Finnegan, who turned one and for whom I don’t have a picture yet, and one for Joey who turned two. There were two sets of tired parents at the end of … Continue reading
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Bank of America Nightmare
We started the refinancing process back in November. The loan officer seemed nice and professional, and we hand delivered all the required documents by December 17. We received an email from loan processor A on December 22 introducing herself to … Continue reading