Skates! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. There was really a lot of falling down and giggling, but she did get pretty good at getting back up by herself. I may dig

Adolescents With Unpopular Names More Prone To Committing Crime Thu Jan 29, 2009

Evidence of Combat in Triceratops Wed Jan 28, 2009 Vicious herbivores! I am amused.

Head And Neck Injury Risks In Heavy Metal: Head Bangers Stuck Between Rock And A Hard Bass Sat Dec 27, 2008 Honey Bees On Cocaine Dance More, Changing Ideas About

(Not our cat. We are too fond of our lives.) We’re having a lazy day, since we did our big dinner yesterday. I have washed the two pairs of footie

Tree! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. The extremely, enthusiastically, hyper-helpful-even-if-you’re-just-looking-fine-thank-you local Scouts sold us a perfect tree this year — the right height and shape, the right smell, nice and fresh.

On the shelf at a local toy shop, next to (appropriately enough, I guess) a doctor’s kit: “Stiffy Stuff”. snort. Someone didn’t quite do enough market research there.

Some days — like, say, today — my brain is very uncooperative and won’t do much except flit about randomly around my head and buzz like some annoying internal deerfly.

Since it’s dropping below zero at night now and I’m preparing to go into hibernation for the winter, I’m on the lookout for appropriate sleepwear. And I have found it:

Scary concept Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Me, I am thankful that I have wonderful friends like Tom and Anne who fed us on (non-ice-cream) turkey and eighteen billion fabulous sides

(This afternoon I’m working on my performance appraisal for work and this floated through my RSS. As I look back on the last year of work I am hoping not

This is a picture I did not take of four older guys in hard hats, reflective vests and workboots, sitting in a row on the edge of a flowerbed with

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Dusk, defined Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I was amused by these signs (there was more than one of them) in a North Vancouver park’s parking lot. Since they’ve told us

A snorkel, a bucket, a kid Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. It’s just a bucket. There’s nothing in there to keep one’s attention for hours and hours on several successive days.

Day 2: West wall Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. We apparently made the appropriate obeisances to the kitchen gods, because some otherwise massively overbooked installers — they are all massively overbooked,

Peter Pan Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. M’s first dance recital. We were a little nervous, since she hadn’t done such a thing before and only recently ceased bursting into tears