Simon’s schedule

July 12, 2009

It is a well-known fact that over half of all blog entries are apologies for not having blogged lately. And we’re not ones to buck trends here at Stadler Headquarters. It’s not that we don’t have stuff to blog about, of course. We’re raising a child here, people, of course there are stories. But nearly […]

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The many names of Simon

June 14, 2009

When Julia’s mother was in town in the weeks after Simon was born, she expressed not-entirely-serious concern that he was going to grow up confused about what his name was. Apparently, in those heady days, we were coining new monikers with alarming frequency. Some of them have already been abandoned, either due to increasing inaccuracy, […]

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Simon the eco-zealot

June 6, 2009

Kids these days! They’re so into environmentalism — radically so! Of course, Simon comes by this naturally — there was the time his dad, after learning about Earth Day and recycling, insisted that his parents save up all cardboard scraps (which were then not recyclable at the curb), which he then drove many dozens of […]

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Mother’s Day

May 10, 2009

Like many of you, I have a mother. In fact, I’ve recently gotten to spend a lot of time with her and my father, both of whom have been in town for a few weeks to help out after Simon was born. (Julia’s parents were in town before that to also help out. It’s been […]

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Simon

April 18, 2009

Do you know where you were and what you were doing on April 8, 2009, at 9:23 am, Pacific time? Well if not, you’d better come up with a reasonable sounding fake answer quick, because I fully expect you to know what was going on when our son, Simon, entered the world. (Booyah! How’s that […]

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We won Science Olympiad

March 16, 2009

So I did my best to avoid this story in the previous entry, since I’m insane and writing two entries in as many days about current events — take that, my former companions in lazy blogging, he said ironically before lapsing into silence for another few weeks! … Uh, that opening got too complicated. Here’s […]

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We survived Science Olympiad

March 15, 2009

Yesterday was Oregon’s state Science Olympiad competition — a science competition with many different types of events that the clever among you will note is very Olympic in nature — which J coached for the third year in a row for the school where she’s also a science teacher. (Here’s where I catch my breath […]

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A moving story

February 22, 2009

At one point, I thought of buying a house as a singular action — like buying, I don’t know, a piece of furniture. Sure, there was the house-hunting, which could take a while, but once you found the house you wanted, at some point after that, you’d clearly own the house. And I guess there […]

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The winter of our Web content

December 23, 2008

Since I last blogged about Portland’s winter storm, the snow and cold temperatures have continued (and continued), resulting in the longest spate of winter weather I’ve ever experienced. I realize “bad winter weather” is all relative, and many from points north and east of here would scoff at what we’ve been going through. Still, you […]

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Winter wonderland, my (cold) foot!

December 18, 2008

Since sometime last week, we’d been hearing about the forthcoming winter storm, due this past weekend. Of course, living in Portland, there is no such thing as an uncapitalized winter storm. When you have generally mild (if damp) weather year-round, cold plus snow gives you, at a bare minimum, a Winter Storm. To hear the […]

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