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Oscars

So the Oscars were last night, and thanks to the kindness of some friends, I was able to watch the whole thing live. (There are times I miss my satellite. But still not $600 worth of missing it. However, maybe my friends are beginning to get tired of me freeloading TV all the time . . .) What did I think?

Well, I thought it was too long, for one thing. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were . . . okay. Not stunning, not hilarious, just sort of there. The opening with Neil Patrick Harris was moroni...

The Value of Normalcy

I'm pleased to report that no one broke anything yesterday in our household. No screams were heard, no glass shattering, no toys crunching. All was peaceful and calm. Well, as peaceful and calm as it can get with a five-year-old and a two-year-old-with-her-arm-in-a-sling running around. DC doesn't like the sling--she tries to take her arm out whenever possible--but she doesn't seem to mind the splint too much. The biggest pain to her was that it was her thumb sucking hand, but she's adapted: ...

Crib Jumping

So yesterday afternoon, DC had the bright idea of getting out of her crib unassisted. DKC and I weren't there--DKC just heard the thud after it happened. She went into DC's room to see what was wrong, and found her on the floor, crying.

Long story short, she broke two bones in her left wrist. Her arm is now in a splint, and in two or three days, we need to take her in to get a cast put on it. 4-6 weeks after that, she should be good as new.

How's she taking it?

Quite well. For those of you that ...

Movie Review: Brick

One of the things I love most about recommending movies to people is when I have the chance to talk about a film that is more obscure, but is fantastic. Reviewing well known movies is okay, but in the end, it just amounts to throwing my opinion into the general mix. Everyone's heard of the film, and so sure, someone might be interested to hear my take on it, but my review won't bring anything truly unknown to light.

Not so with Brick, a great little gem that I'm betting the majority of you hav...

Movie Review: The Longest Day

I finally got around to watching The Longest Day last night. It had been sitting on my entertainment center for a few weeks, actually--but it's 3 hours long, and what with the Olympics and all, I just hadn't found the time to watch it. I'm a bit of a WWII buff, however, so it was only a matter of time before that movie was going in my PS3. For those of you who don't know, it's an all star historical flick focused on the events surrounding D-Day. (It was billed as having 42 stars in it, and it...

A Pox on Weathermen!

This whole weekend did nothing but confirm what we've all known all along: weathermen, as a whole, are completely clueless when it comes to predicting the weather. I was checking three or four different weather forecasts each day, trying to figure out what was going to happen. Rain? Snow? Ice? How much? Each forecast said something different. And you know what?

None of them ended up getting it right.

Take last night. All of them said we'd get snow. Amounts ranged from 2-7 inches. We didn't end ...

Dear Winter (Part 2)

Dear Winter,

The slushy mess you deposited on my driveway this morning--while a tad less than the fluffy white stuff I desired--did manage to get me a snow day.

Thank you very much.

Bryce

Dear Winter

Dear Winter,

You've really been disappointing me lately. I mean, we had a great December. You dumped snow all over my area, and I got one and a half snow days out of the deal. I thought we were set for at least a six month relationship. January came around, and some of the thrill was gone, but I thought we could still make it work. Relationships are all about sacrifice, right?

But then February happened.

You started seeing other places. DC. Philly. New York. Showering them with white, glistening...

Advice on Writing, and Why I'm Not Watching American Idol This Year

First things first: I came across these two lists of writing tips by famous authors. Very entertaining, for the ones I disagree with as much for the ones I agree with. So interesting to see how different writing is for everyone.

Second: American Idol. Yeah. I'm not watching this year. Why? Well, I sat down and thought back on all the other four or five seasons I had watched. To watch all of an AI season (not counting the stupid audition shows and Hollywood week, which I'm prone to skip), takes...

Decluttering

Ever since Christmas, when I bought DKC a book on how to declutter a home, I've been a decluttering fiend. Up until reading that book (yes, I read it first despite the fact that I gave it to my wife. She wasn't reading it. So I did.) I'd never been able to really get on top of clutter. Stuff just seemed to congregate in various areas of the house on its own accord. I blamed it on SPR (Spontaneous Paper Reproduction). My kitchen was usually a disaster, the area by my bed was heaped with clothe...