First, let me mention that I had some problems with my kit car blog that resulted in a software upgrade trashing the original functioning site… The reason I mention it is that DreamHost tech support fixed it for me relatively quickly and were responsive via email — given how cheap their pricing is, I continue to be very happy with the service I’ve gotten, both in terms of dealing with them, and having servers that are far from overloaded. I’ve served tens of thousands of pageviews a day (and sometimes more) off these blogs and rarely had a problem — and when I have needed more server availability because of site popularity, they’ve upgraded me without additional charges.
Anyway… Nefarious and I went down to the art store yesterday and picked up some wood panels for new projects, as I mentioned. I’m working on an interpretation (a la The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind) of Uilenspiegel (aka The Beggars) by Lucas van Leyden… Here’s the sketch on wood. As you can see, it’s much smaller than I usually work, but I want to make pieces that are easier to ship (and to hang).
Nefarious and I also got a new strategy boardgame — “ZigZag” — which involves building “roads” that you move your pegs along in an attempt to get four in a row. It’s simple, but surprisingly difficult and quite enjoyable… That said, of all the games we play, she prefers chess and is best at it. I’m not a particularly good chess player (Abalone and ZigZag suit me better), so she can keep up with me without me having to pull my punches.
And WTF was McCain thinking with his weird moves at the end of last night’s debate? I guess he is unaware that people can freeze-frame him…
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haha they don’t publish such pictures in daily newspapers!
sometimes I think that the only good thing about politicians is how funny (and pathetic) they are; I’m now watching a Polish TV show making fun of our president and PM – after their trip to Brussels they gave us plenty to shake our heads on and laugh at them.
I will vote for sweet Obama :)
I’m so impressed with the variety of things Nefarious is being exposed to. The chess, swimming, climbing, cooking, video games & DIY crafty stuff (making things out of boxes etc.), music, different forms of art. So many kids are exposed to things mainly from only a few areas which seem to be more what the parents are into. There are so many things I wish I had been taught when I was at that age because we’re finding more and more evidence that between 3-6 the brain is really a sponge. It’s really cool to see Nefarious have the freedom to figure out what she’s interested in. Are you guys planning on teaching her other languages?
She spoke Spanish while we lived down there, and takes French at school… I tried starting some German with her but she was totally NOT into it.
“… Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein…
… denn schlag’ ich dir den Schädel ein!“
we can love our own too much
omg, I can’t stop laughing! Hahahahhahaha!!!
That’s awesome. She might be into the German more later. I suspect that it’s not really important which languages children learn and that it’s perhaps more exposing them to learning more than one language when they’re at that age. Many of my friends who learned 2 languages growing up had a much easier time than us unilinguals learning new languages later in life. So, yeah, very very cool.
Try rocking back and forth and singing,
Ja, ja, ja, ja!
Weist’ nicht wie gut ich dir bin!
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