Archive for December, 2010

So if Santa Claus ain’t Daddy then I’m gonna tell on them.

Hope all your Christmases were as merry as ours.
(21st Century Xmas by Skype)
(Santa knows what boys want.)
(Christmas rasslin’)

(Redux.)
Happy Holidays from A Free Family.
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Thanks to Seattle Dad for the tip on Reverend Horton Heat’s Christmas album “We Three Kings”, which is available from .

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Some bricks now, baby, let’s build a home.

Exhausted.
We spent all day yesterday packing and all day today moving into our new house. Our new house that we own*. The first house we’ve ever owned. And if all goes well, the last we ever own.
It’s a big old rambling 1940s home on a good sized block in the hills about 10 km from [...]

 
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Robbery! Muggery! Aussie skullduggery!

The Aussies were seriously lacking in skullduggery at the Adelaide Test last weekend. But that didn’t stop us from having a good time at the Adelaide Oval. Even if it did seem to involve a full day of watching England’s mercenary South African batsman Kevin Pietersen spend the whole day smacking Australian bowlers around the [...]

 
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Find the heat over a bay or in the scraps of someone’s plate.

This will be our third summertime Christmas and I must say that I’m warming to it. I don’t know if it is having young kids to enjoy it with or whether the seasonal reversal removes the S.A.D. component of my typical holiday dread, but I find myself looking forward to Christmas this year. If you’ve [...]

By now I know the answer’s always in the question

I’ve just sent the invoice for three chapters that I wrote for inclusion in a biochemistry textbook. It isn’t a heap of money, but it is the most I’ve ever been paid for writing. It always feels good making money for doing something that I love. Not that it is that common, mind, but nonetheless. [...]

 
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