Category Archives: DG

Taxes

DG has been pulling his hair out trying to get his taxes done. I told him that he should be careful with that, after all he only has one hair left. Oops. Too late. Oh well. Maybe it will grow … Continue reading

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Mask

DG decided that he needed to make a mask. That is what everybody is doing, making masks. “DG”, I said, “Just stay inside. You don’t have anywhere to go.” “Nope”, DG said, “I need to make a mask”. “Seriously, DG, … Continue reading

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Looking for something funny

I have been wracking my brain trying to find something funny to post, but honestly there  isn’t much these days that is funny. So, I drew a picture of DG going Stir Crazy. Hopefully, he will be able to get … Continue reading

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Market Crash

DG has been watching the Market crash and is all worried and bummed out about it. “Relax”, I told him. “It’s not all that bad. It comes back. It always has.” But he was still upset. “Well, just turn the … Continue reading

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Daylight Saving Time

It is Daylight Saving Time again. So last night I went around moving all the clocks forward an hour. That was when I discovered that our Daniel Pratt clock had stopped ticking. I tried to get it going again, but … Continue reading

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Birdwatching

Now that the new chickadee house is up, DG has decided to take up bird watching. So he dragged out his big, serious bird watching binoculars. I said to him, “DG, it’s only 20 feet away! You don’t need those.” … Continue reading

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Coffee

Now that we are in a cold snap (Old Man Winter has arrived!), DG decided to stay in and sit down with a mug of nice, steamy coffee. “DG”, I said, “are you aware that when you do that you … Continue reading

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Rain

DG is sick of all this rain. He really wanted to build a snowman before the crocuses bloom. I told him that he could blame it on the Augernaut* You see, in that very first snow storm in early December, … Continue reading

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Calculator

Continuing on with our ancient computer theme, we went digging through the Computer Museum again and found another machine that we can use to calculate the comparison of our hit rate to the hit rate of The Google. That is … Continue reading

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Suanpan

DG went rummaging through our Computer Museum again and came up with this old style Chinese abacus. This is a 2/5 Chinese abacus, called a “suanpan” 算盘. The 2/5 means that it has 2 beads on the top and 5 … Continue reading

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