Hippo, Birdie, Two Ewes...

... to trogula!!! Have a great one!!

A quiet morning

It's a fine, cool, grey morning; overcast with a hint of blue in the South and East. I've taken one kid to school and have been quietly puttering about the house: the housekeepers are coming, so things have to be at least picked up and put away. Otherwise they'll put things away, which wastes their time and often results in things being found in non-obvious places, weeks later.

Installed the Panasonic DECT phones last night, or at least the base station. Installed one of the remotes this morning in place of the ancient cordless phone between the kitchen and the living room. Recorded the answering-machine message this morning -- that appears to be one of the few things one can't do from a handset. As it turns out, any handset can join a call in progress just by clicking the "answer" button; I may very well want to give each of the kids a remote.

Very few things on my to-do list got done yesterday, so they're mostly carried over to today except for the phone installation and starting a sneakernet transfer system to take advantage of the huge bandwidth of my backpack, and work's hot new internet connection.

The flower_cat and I seem to have taken to going to bed earlier. This gives us some time for conversation and snuggle, and helps her get to sleep a little faster. Then I can usually get in another hour or so on the computer before getting sleepy myself. I vaguely recall doing something similar before the kids were born...

Sometimes this bear needs to be whacked with a very large cluestick.