We wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year! It gets a little harder every year to get Charlie to sit still and wait patiently while I take his picture before he can start opening his presents!

We had about 5 inches of snow on Friday, not enough to close the school (the only one in the area that remained open!), so Charlie had to wait a day to try out the snow saucer we bought last February. He can confirm it really works! We’re hoping the snow lasts until Christmas.

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So against my better judgement, I decided to upgrade the newer Mac mini (which I’d only just got this blog moved to after months of technical grief) to Snow Leopard. Of course it broke the blog (MySQL to be precise). I just can’t be bothered trying to fix it right now so I’ve moved the [...]