Clean your oven online Today we did some essential moving-out type cleaning. Jim washed all the outside windows and screens while I did the inside windows and the blinds, and he replaced the screens that the cat scratc…

And now, for something completely different I bet you are all tired of hearing about this move, aren't you? Just because it is the only thing going on in my life, that doesn't mean that it is the only thing I think abo…

DVQ (yippy skippy) I am writing this entry from Marine Corps Base Quantico. Quantico is a couple of miles south of where my new house is. We drove up for the day, for the house inspection, and decided we should spend …

All about airspace (in Juliet-speak) I understand what my husband does for a living partly because I used to be an air traffic controller, and party because he talks about his work all the time. Most people who hear hi…

A house! (THE house) Yesterday I spent a considerable part of the day cruising around Prince William county looking at homes (the rest of the day was spent on the 3+ hours it takes to drive there each way from here). T…

What's a Negro? My daughter just finished reading Holes by Louis Sachar a couple of days ago. She was explaining at dinner how one of the (female) characters became a murderous outlaw. The character had been in love w…

Paring down We should be leaving in the next two weeks. We don't know where or why, but we can't stay here much longer, and the kids need to be ready for school wherever that turns out to be, so we have to leave within…

Slow descent into hell The construction workers are at it again. They have managed to damage the cable line once again, and there is no relief in sight. It isn't completely cut, but the television is full of static, an…

Ugly, and didn't even know it I have been having problems with my graphics on my computer. The reason that we haven't done anything about it is that I'm certain that the problem is in the monitor, and Jim is certain th…