So, its official (as of last week I believe), but Oregon State University’s football team will be traveling to Happy Valley to play the Lions — and I’ll be there.  My wife has given me the ok so I’ve got the plane tickets, a hotel room in altoona, pa and a rental car.  Now all […]

 
I’ll only have one more post about this (when I actually have books in hand), but Kyle Banerjee and I spent the last year writing a book about building digital libraries.  While I yet to have the proof in hand, I did get a call from our publisher letting us know that the book is […]

Christmas has come and in 10 minutes, will go for another year, and it was fun.  Nathan came up with two of my favorite memories of this year’s Christmas.  One happened two days ago when we opened presents at my parents house.  Nathan and Kenny got a little foam shooter and he was hot to […]

So I finished my second Jack-o-lantern this evening.  I needed the boy’s help because we had to clean 3 pumpkins to make it work.  Our project for this year — a snow man.  Since we don’t get a whole lot of snow in the Willamette Valley, we decided to improves.
–TR
 

Halloween is just a few days away and this year, I’m getting the pumpkin in right under the wire.  The first jack-o-lantern done tonight was for my boys.  Here’s a picture:

For those that don’t have a 6 year old (or a person that acts like a 6 year old), the picture is of the Pokemon […]

I’ve been fortunate to get to spend the last few days in the beautiful state of Vermont.  This isn’t my first time here, nor do I think it will be my last.  I’ve been here since Friday…visiting friends in Middlebury, though I will find some time the first week of Oct. to do a little […]

Today marked the first day since last winter where I road home in utter blackness.  Generally, this would happen much later in the year but I hung around Corvallis a bit later than usual and started for home a little after 8 pm.  While it’s dark at 8 pm, it gets really dark after 8:30 […]

Kenny started 1st grade on Tuesday.  He’s been looking forward to it and fortunately, it looks like he will have lots of fun.  He has 24 kids in his class, including most of his friends from last year.  Plus, he gets his own desk. :).  Anyway, here are a few pictures.

Kenny, standing in front […]

For those folks trying to get ahold of my since last Tuesday, I’m finally starting to get through my email so unless your message got caught by one of my fairly aggressive spam filters, I’ll respond soon.  So what have I been up to, well, I’ve been in San Francisco with my wife.  Alyce and […]

So this weekend, my family and I spent 4 nights down at Diamond Lake with my wife’s two sisters, their families and their parents. 

(not pictured, my brother-in-law, my wife’s parents and me)
For Kenny and Nathan, it was their second trip down to Diamond Lake in 2 weeks.  During the first trip down, we went camping […]