Nice dinner at Coza with R&L - thanx guys!

This cold has me wiped out. Managed to drag myself out of bed, headed into work late.

Overheard in coffee line... "she got bitten by ants?"

Finally the van is fixed. Thx to Troy at Valley Transmission for finally coming through for us.

My question posted to ParentHack!

A question I mailed in just got posted to one of my favourite sites - ParentHack.com.

I was searching through older articles looking for tips on helping kids build organizational skills. Our 7-year old son is quite bright and active, but has extremely poor organization skills. Partially the way a 7-year old boy is wired, I'm sure, but it'd be nice to work on strengthening him in this area. We're hoping to come up with some ways to get him to focus on single tasks and maybe organize his own schedule a bit, as per this hack. We may tweak it a bit to be more task-oriented, but it's a great hack.

I'm looking forward to the comments. We've been wondering more and more about how routines and schedules can help, but it sometimes feels so artificial.

Thanks to two good friends, managed to almost get the siding done. Yee haw!

Someone conVinced a friend to he'll with siding, so headed home to get that done.

Van back in, more transmission work and no doubt more bux. C'mon seriously - can someone fix it and stop ripping us off?

Holy cow. Guy on bus beside me is eating a full breakfast and chewing incredibly loudly.

Still laughing. Found a bee's nest in a bird's nest while doing the siding. Something about that just seems funny to me.

Really enjoying the new Google Chrome browser - very fast. Of course, I'm biased since I'm a bit of a Google fanboy. Sigh.

Last night, little break to sit in a friend's hot tub and then back to the cork flooring until 1am.

Seeing the R kids, soaking in the last bit of summer. Still in the middle of too many reno projects.