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Tag: family
little black spot v olympic torch
We missed the little black spot on the sun today, but I think we saw something pretty darned near as neat: Henry stands with Olympic Torch bearer Brian Brunton, helping him carry the load. I am SO PLEASED with this photo. I took about six, but this was the only one where we got him looking at the camera–because Jedward was just a few feet up the street, and there were jillions of screaming little girls and Henry thought that was Very Interesting. :)
*laughs* family
My sister’s got this weird thing going on with her grant applications where for some reason the application won’t put the date in European style. The last two times, she was working on the applications at my house, and I went to the computer, peered at it, and the dates were all correct. This time she sent me a chat saying “You know that magic thing you do to make the dates turn out right on an application? Would you like to come over here and do that?” I said,…
off to a start
Young Indiana woke up at 5 and required soothing. After a few minutes I put him back down and we all went back to bed (though I’m not sure Young Indiana ever went back to sleep). Eventually I woke up and said to Ted, “Did the alarm go off?” And Ted said, “I turned it off.” I said, “Are you taking a taxi to work?” Ted said, “It’s okay. I turned it off. It’s 5 after 6.” I said, “Are you going to work today?” Ted said, “It’s Saturday.” I…
Is there a doctor in the house?
Yesterday my brother in law defended the thesis he’s been working on for four years, and recieved his doctorate. There was a champagne party last night, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen my sister or her husband so ebulliant. Apparently his external examiner came in, sat down, said, “This is obviously a novel work, it is obviously worthy of a doctorate, now let’s discuss it. Page one!” and grilled Gavin for five and a half hours, a record for DCU doctorate defenses. Anyway, so we’re all completely thrilled and…