Category: Family

  • Sometimes, my wife must think she has 3 children 🙂

    The pictures say it all right?  We decided to have a little fun before father’s day.  We’ll see how long our new hair cuts last (though, I’ll probably keep my at least for one day of work) :)  But it was a lot of fun cutting them.  🙂   –TR     I always close…

  • Wii Fit

    The people at Nintendo must be geniuses, because their most recent “game”, the Wii Fit, shows off everything that is cool about their console.  I have a Wii — we got it for the boys (ha!) and I love the game play.  I love the simplified controllers, the interactive nature of the games — and…

  • Music, animals and dinosaurs — Oh my

    Wow — it’s been unseasonably hot the past couple of days.  It’s funny how quickly things have gone from winter and snowing (last snow day was around April 23rd) to nearly 100 degree heat (yesterday and today).  Of course, with the thawing from winter to summer (I guess we are skipping spring this year), comes…

  • Bring on the Penn State Kitty cats

    So, its official (as of last week I believe), but Oregon State University’s football team will be traveling to Happy Valley to play the Lions — and I’ll be there.  My wife has given me the ok so I’ve got the plane tickets, a hotel room in altoona, pa and a rental car.  Now all…

  • Finally, proof that I did something last year 🙂

    I’ll only have one more post about this (when I actually have books in hand), but Kyle Banerjee and I spent the last year writing a book about building digital libraries.  While I yet to have the proof in hand, I did get a call from our publisher letting us know that the book is…

  • Christmas 2007

    Christmas has come and in 10 minutes, will go for another year, and it was fun.  Nathan came up with two of my favorite memories of this year’s Christmas.  One happened two days ago when we opened presents at my parents house.  Nathan and Kenny got a little foam shooter and he was hot to…

  • Christmas in October

    So I finished my second Jack-o-lantern this evening.  I needed the boy’s help because we had to clean 3 pumpkins to make it work.  Our project for this year — a snow man.  Since we don’t get a whole lot of snow in the Willamette Valley, we decided to improves. 🙂 –TR  

  • Let the Halloween Pumpkin carving begin

    Halloween is just a few days away and this year, I’m getting the pumpkin in right under the wire.  The first jack-o-lantern done tonight was for my boys.  Here’s a picture: For those that don’t have a 6 year old (or a person that acts like a 6 year old), the picture is of the Pokemon…

  • Travel fun

    I’ve been fortunate to get to spend the last few days in the beautiful state of Vermont.  This isn’t my first time here, nor do I think it will be my last.  I’ve been here since Friday…visiting friends in Middlebury, though I will find some time the first week of Oct. to do a little…

  • Riding in the dark

    Today marked the first day since last winter where I road home in utter blackness.  Generally, this would happen much later in the year but I hung around Corvallis a bit later than usual and started for home a little after 8 pm.  While it’s dark at 8 pm, it gets really dark after 8:30…