Ten Commandments (start at 32 minutes in)
Behold, the Claw Hammer!
Announcing the birth of our son, Benjamin John Dickerson, born on March 29th, 2006. He's an adorable morning-person. He inherited his eyebrows and hands from Mommy, eyes and ears from Daddy, and a shock of red hair perhaps from some third donor we know little about.
Benjamin very much loves to be cuddled. He finds it so comforting in fact, that it doesn't much matter what's going on as long as he gets that physical contact: You could be at a Metallica concert, or in the Land of Barking Stray Dogs, or worse, and he'd be just fine. Conversely, he could be in infant-heaven: soothing music playing, surrounded by lactating breasts and bathing in warm milk, but he'd be crying uncontrollably if it were not for the cuddling. So we spend much of our waking hours comforting him. I suppose you can tell we're still trying to figure out if we're spoiling him in that department.
At this point, Benjamin has very limited skills with respect to speech, mobility and bladder control, but already I can tell he's going to be a killer wrestler. He will be known as the Claw Hammer, because of his signature move, which will involve digging into his opponent with his razor-sharp fingernails, and following with a powerful head-butt. Trust me: it'll be deadly.
See the Claw Hammer in action! »
A crater-like landscape
Ever wished you could be away from natural beauty like trees, grass and other greenery, and live in a lifeless, blasted heath? This nightmare is now possible, thanks to the ancient mystery known as caliche (pronounced "call-ee-chay"). Caliche is a very hard, rocklike substance that develops in arid lands like Tucson, Arizona. Wikipedia has a nice article about it. This article, while containing many "useful facts", about caliche, fails to capture the true essense of this material. Caliche is a purely hateful mineral: a cancer on the planet that is literally impervious to standard means of excavation. I know this because my yard is infected with the stuff. The Wikipedia's primary solution to the myriad problems caliche causes is to "remove the caliche and... [replace it with some other, non-concrete-based type of soil]". Riight. Remove it...
Find out how the excavation is coming »
Trips Abroad
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