We celebrated Jasmin’s 11th trip around the sun with four squealing pre-teen girls and an ice cream cake. The girls played Nintendo and watched Aragon until the wee hours of the morning. There was no bra-freezing, “truth-or-dare”, or snickering about boys, but I suppose that’s only another year or two away.
Jasmin and I successfully made our first foray into Robotics. Following the instructions for a robot beetle found here, and materials from our local “The Source” store, we soldered and glued a working robot bug. We had a few glitches, but after moving a few wires around we could get the beetle to turn when [...]
Jasmin wants to enter the science fair (called the STEM expo) at school this year. She has firmly decided that she is going to be an electrical engineer when she grows up, so naturally she wants her science project to reflect that. Eep, electricity. Yeah, that class that I really should have taken because I [...]
That title might have been misleading. I didn’t grow up in a commune without electricty. My parents, as I remember them growing up, were just normal parents. My parents were both college educated, hard-working people of the upper middle class. Apparently they were hippies before I was born. Mom backpacked across Europe with a friend [...]
It was a bountiful Christmas for me this year. Among the most memorable gifts were some new knives and kitchen gadgets, a set of wine-making gear, slippers, LOTS of chocolates, and a sexy pair of leather gloves. I also got my birthday present, which we’ve been putting off buying since, well, my birthday. A Nintendo [...]
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