Tales from the Technoverse

Category: family

  • More Helpful Hints Around the House From Me

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    So if your wife (spouse, significant other) goes to Book Expo in New York City, I have some advice for what to do, and  not to do around the house. First, if you want to warm a piece of frozen Naan in the microwave, do NOT assume that the heating directions especially timing are the same for…

  • Let Them Eat Cereal

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    The other day Ellen told me a life lesson that a friend told her (and I know I am paraphrasing here, since my porous memory has become even more so). Her friend said that a mother should know that if she waits long enough eventually everyone in the family will just eat cereal. Something I…

  • Having Pride in Your Children

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    It is a very natural thing for a parent to feel pride in your children’s accomplishments. As both of my daughters remind me, I am biased (they are, of course, wrong, I am totally objective about each of them; I just happen by coincidence to have the best two daughters ever) and my job is…

  • A Reminder That My Father-in-Law is a Very Smart Guy

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    Ellen’s parents, David and Bobbie Elow, visited us this weekend. I am very lucky to have had such great people enter into my life when Ellen and I were married. In addition to important personal and business advice I received at times when I needed such advice, I have learned much about being a good…

  • A New Lesson From Our Last Walk

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    As I have written previously, Ellen and I pick a local park to walk in every couple of weeks. Earlier this week, we went to Black Hill Regional Park, http://www.montgomeryparks.org/facilities/regional_parks/blackhill/. Black Hill is really nice, Little Seneca Lake is there, the trails go in and out of forests. I suspect we will go back there again…

  • What I Learned From My Birthday This Year

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    As many of you know my birthday was earlier this week. Most of the day of my birthday I spent working on responding to discussion posts and grading midterm papers for the graduate class I teach at the University of Maryland University College. During the day I talked to my two wonderful daughters. I spent…

  • Visiting Ellen’s Parents & Perhaps The Greatest Name in Baseball Ever

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    We try to visit Ellen’s parents every three – four months or so, they live in Hilton Head SC. When we had kids at home we would drive there, then for a while we flew, but lately we have returned to driving. However, now we try and see new sites and/or experience new events. For…

  • Last Day of My Wild and Crazy Bachelor Week

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    Ellen just called and told me she was catching the noon bus instead of the 4:00 bus, so I guess I need to straighten up earlier than I had planned. I spent my last night of my out-of-control week having salmon burgers cooked in the microwave and watching the Nationals on TV (they won), followed…

  • Jumping the Shark

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    Tonight I went to and had a great time at the Bethesda Young AFCEA Fiscal New Year Networking Event. It was good to see long-time and newly initiated friends and be reminded that the current partial government shutdown will eventually come to some kind of resolution (eventually). In addition, it is always great to go…

  • My Father-in-Law and the MG

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    I have been very fortunate not only in whom I married but also with the parents that are part of the deal. Both my father-in-law, David Elow, and mother-in-law, Barbara Elow, are very special people. Both of my daughters have had many valuable moments with both of them, especially as the daughters have become young…