Me: There is a massive wasp nest on our kitchen window. There are wasps crawling on it. And another one on the porch. I think we should get an exterminator. Gordon, examining the wasp nest: Yep. You go on to the office, I’ll catch up. Five minutes later. Gordon, joining me at the office:
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Things! Aaaaah!
You know how you take a few days off for vacation and there is a whole bunch of stuff when you come back? We spent some time dealing with all the cool and not so coll admin issues in New York, while visiting our agent, but we came back to more stuff. I swear, the
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Admin note: Minor Website Rearranging
We are doing some housekeeping on the website and you will see menu items moved around at the top. Please bear with us while we are getting our ducks in a row. We are trying to make the website more accessible to you and important things like free fiction and newsletter easier to find. As
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On Gordon Andrews, Wittiness Of
Our oldest daughter is applying for jobs as a dental assistant in Austin and vicinity. She’s never had a job that required an actual resume before, and because she is just out of school, she has to work a little harder to get her foot in the door. Three way text: Gordon: Don’t just spam
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So How Was It Really?
Thanksgiving is gone. Black Friday is gone. Post-holiday drama time. Shot out to my lovely cousin-in-law, Trisha, and everyone else whose Thanksgiving might have been less than joyful due to family. Hang in there.
Del and her blanket
Greetings from Ms. D this morning.
The Ghost of Kid 1’s Room
Coming back from errands. Kid 2 runs out of the house to meet us in the driveway. Gordon: What is it? Kid 2: There is a ghost in Kid 1’s room. I was downstairs and I heard Kid 1’s keyboard playing. So I went up the stairs and then it sounded like someone pounded their
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Dramatic Dogs
We bought Kid 2 a new iPhone. The quality has been dialed down quite a bit so it doesn’t take forever to load. Slightly less dramatic.
Dad’s visit
My father was here for the last two weeks. He is a nuclear physicist and mathematician by training and mother hen by temperament, so these fifteen days consisted of him attempting to “fix” everything. He took all of our computers apart. Kid 2’s Mac won’t turn on now. He attempted to install a new dog
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Ze Children, Ze Children
We get a lot of questions about how the girls are doing, so some pictures of the kids. 🙂 Kid 1 has turned twenty one. Here she is at her 21st birthday party. We took her and a bunch of her friends to Rotten Bunch in North Austin and had a lovely time. Kid 1
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BFM and Family Pictures
Burn For me is 99 cents on Kindle and other platforms through BookBub! Kid 2’s school is gathering baby pictures for the graduation class and as I dug through the box of old photographs, I found one you guys might like. This my great grandmother with her first(!) husband. How scandalous. Her first husband was
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Dog Bed Experiment
Following numerous recommendations, we ordered Kuranda beds. They immediately dragged their nasty blankies on them, of course, but both dogs crawled on their beds and flopped. I’m wondering if XL would’ve been better. They both fit fine on the large size, they just can’t sprawl. Pros: Easy set up: took ten minutes to put together.
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