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Cut

Our boy has never had a haircut. Neither has Mackenzie! I've trimmed his bangs and tried to clean it up once or twice, but that's it. This weekend I noticed his hair falling in his eyes again. I tried to sit him down and trim it

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Yum!

Allie had a fantastic idea tonight. There was talk about going to the park, but it was getting a bit late. What will easily overshadow a walk to the park? Ice cream! We've got this fantastic little ice cream shop in our neighborhood. They make a pretty wide

Knocked out

I've started and stopped a half dozen ideas tonight. There's a lot to talk about, but stringing together a narrative is proving difficult. I have some fragments of ideas for stories to tell. A backlog of photos on my phone from things we've done

Etsy

A small win

Another throttle wasn't the only order on Saturday. We received an order for a jewelry tree as well. The first of these I made just over a year ago, I designed and machined it as a gift for Allie for her Birthday. We were a bit strapped at

Done.

I did it. After months of designing, machining, tapping, threading, soldering, troubleshooting, reworking, fretting, printing, fixing printers, testing, and fretting (yeah, it's in there twice). I've finally boxed up the first two Delta Throttles [https://www.etsy.com/listing/243387070/custom-aluminum-delta-throttle?ref=shop_home_active_8]

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10

I'd been chatting with her for about a week. For some reason, my email managed to catch her attention. We exchanged a few messages, and then I invited her to meet. I wasn't sure she'd agree, but she did. We met, and I was

Twinkle, Twinkle.

Nana got Mackenzie a cute, programable stuffed dog last summer when she was visiting for Mackenzie's birthday and surgery. Scout hasn't been horribly interesting to Kenzie up to this point, but in the last couple weeks she's gotten more obsessed with the vaguely manipulative

Limes

Limes. I like limes. Fresh lime juice in a cocktail. A wedge of lime amongst the garnish for a plate of Pad Thai or bowl of Pho. Little sections to squeeze over your tacos, or finely chopped on a plate of fillings for Miang Kam. Last year when we spent

Future reader

Mackenzie has been more and more into her books of late. She's always enjoyed them, and enjoyed the nightly ritual of Mom or Dad reading one to her. She loves to sit on the floor and flip through them, babling at the pages. Wednesday she was seriously obsessed

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Heading back to the car in a parking garage this evening, I spot something strange in the stairwell. Someone has taken this photo, and stabbed it onto the bolt of a water stack in the corner of the stairs. It's an odd sight. A bit depressing as you

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Smile

Our girl really does have an amazing smile. I snapped a bunch of pictures of her in the kitchen tonight with my phone. Unfortunately they're all blurry messes, but it was fun!

Pew pew

I've always enjoyed video games. Starting back when I was a kid, my first computer was a Commodore 64. We had a number of games for that thing. I have a hard time remembering specific titles, but I do remember a flying game that was a lot of

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A nice day

It was a good day here. A great, relaxing Sunday. After Allie returned from the gym we had a tasty lunch of chilaquiles with the red chili sauce I made yesterday. We loafed in the sun for a bit and then headed out to the lake to take Mackenzie ice

Chilis

We talked about making nachos for lunch today, and when Allie was digging through our "pantry" to see if we had beans, she pulled out some dried chilis we picked up in Austin earlier this year. I decided to make a red chili sauce to have with our

Pot pie

The month of clearing out the fridge continued this evening as we took some of the remaining turkey from Thanksgiving from the freezer and made a giant batch of turkey pot pie filling. Allie picked up some parsnips to augment the carrots, celery, onion, green beans and frozen peas we

Oops

I can't say I really did anything very creative Thursday. It was a busy day. Getting caught up on some work, then picking up Mackenzie a little bit early so I could get to a user group meeting (ok, really a happy hour). We met at Urban Growler

Ginger beer

I started another batch of fresh ginger beer this evening. I've been enjoying making it again lately, it's been a tasty beverage to have around over the holidays. I first made it back when Allie was pregnant. I'd seen some people mention making some

Desk

Spent a little time this evening getting my old desktop up and running again. It's been sitting half open next to my chair for months now. I had little hope that the OS install was still going to be any good, and I was unsure if baby feet

Cuddlebug

Our little one wasn't feeling so great today. With a runny nose and a bit of a fever that really took off in the evening. She's a trooper, but when she gets like this she also really likes to cuddle. She spent most of the day

Food for thought

It's been a good week here. Despite some illness and the bitter cold weather. After indulging quite a bit last month we're reigning things in for January. We're cooking more, and working on using food we still have around in the house rather than

Nourishment

Allie had a pretty bad stomach bug today, removing any desire for food. I could have gone out and gotten some crackers or something, but instead decided to make a batch of Alton Brown's Pretzels [http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/homemade-soft-pretzels-recipe.html] . I'd been meaning

Potstickers

We had a bunch of delicious pork left over from our lettuce wraps earlier in the week and were discussing what to do with it. Allie had the brilliant idea to turn them into potstickers. The pork recipe we used worked great as filling. We added a bit of chopped

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Reflection on last year

It's been cold here in Minnesota this week. Really cold. Today it also snowed quite a bit, so we have that going for us! I do still like winter, but really only if there's enough snow to actually get out and enjoy some winter sports. We&

Tom Kha ... Gai?

Not so sure about the Gai part. Maybe Tom Kha "Tom"? Because this soup was made from Thanksgiving! We had some stock and turkey left in the freezer and some tasty veggies left over from last night's Lettuce Wraps. So today I set about making Tom

Thai inspired cocktail

As Allie notes in her post for today, we made lettuce wraps tonight! When it came time to sit down and enjoy them, I decided to use some of the ingredients to make a sort of thai inspired mojito-ish drink. Here's the basics. 1/2 lime quartered 1