2017-03-27 14:01
Christian took this picture on Saturday during a walk to Devil’s Bridge near Sedona, AZ. It certainly is a beautiful place. After our Bible study last Wednesday, one of our friends sho… Read More
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2017-03-26 18:24
Christian sent us this article about how Uber has suspended all use of their self-driving cars. It is literally right in front of where Christian lives. He said it would even be possible to… Read More
2017-03-25 22:28
Lorena went to Pier One Imports today to take a class in how to do place settings on a table. She won a ten dollar gift card and a lantern, at least that is what I think it is. She won the l… Read More
2017-03-25 19:38
I got up early and walked to work where I spent several hours figuring out the technology we have available on our project will not allow us to do what we want to do. Lorena and I had a late… Read More
2017-03-24 13:51
The purchase of the house in Washington state where we expect to live starting in May is not scheduled to close until March 31, but all the insurance is bought and all the fixes, approvals a… Read More
2017-03-22 13:10
My first thought when I read Thomas McArdle’s article in The Stream entitled Deconstruction is that the subject of the article, an academic named Paul de Man, would have been a worthy… Read More
2017-03-21 19:19
Mark P., our contractor, said their are only a few things missing in this drawing. The microwave will be above the double oven, the range top is not drawn in and a few other details that we… Read More
2017-03-20 11:26
An article titled Astrophysicist Adam Frank: Materialism’s Fatal Flaw Is…Matter addresses the two greatest problems with thinking that matter is all there is. The first is consc… Read More
2017-03-18 21:59
We are starting to figure out that picking styles of stuff for the kitchen is not for the faint of heart. We thought we had made great progress when we decided we wanted Shaker style, but no… Read More
2017-03-17 12:37
I love my job. That is not an unusual thing. I think I have written here on this blog about how Grandpa Milo’s frequently reminded us we might as well love our jobs because we have to… Read More
2017-03-16 13:36
We are now on the third semi-official round of the kitchen layout. This time we put an angle in the kitchen island and moved the sink and dishwasher there from where it was previously along… Read More
2017-03-15 11:47
Kelly Jean started her new blog (KellyJean.net) just in time to show off her Pi Day pink rhubarb pie in her inaugural post. Who knows what she will post there, but seems like a not inauspici… Read More
2017-03-15 11:43
This is the second pass at the kitchen design. After Mark P. sent it over we talked about it four a half an hour or so. This and the previous design were good efforts to allow us to start th… Read More
2017-03-14 21:43
Whenever grandpa ran a stop light or forgot to put on his blinker when he changed lanes he said, “I like to follow the spirit of the law. The letter kills.”
We were all pretty sk… Read More
2017-03-14 13:42
Drawings have started to arrive from the kitchen designers. As is always the case in these kinds of things, some of the ideas are exactly what we wanted, but there is a disconnect on others… Read More
2017-03-14 02:04
Our annual tax effort started today. This last few years it has been a little more challenging than in the past. I have switched jobs, moved, performed contract work, etc., etc., etc. Even w… Read More
2017-03-11 23:30
Kelly texted me this a couple of days ago. It is hear food and cooking log. She has always been a big cooking buff what with her gourmet Grandpa Milo and the eclectic by unsurpassed everyday… Read More
2017-03-11 22:00
The kitchen in the house we are trying to buy is getting dated. We pretty much need to replace everything. We hope to use the pieces in the current kitchen to make a standalone apartment in… Read More
2017-03-10 12:37
After church a couple of Sundays back, I was talking to the elder, Al R. (we meet in his home), about the doll house business my father ran for many years. He told me he made birdhouses that… Read More
2017-03-08 12:50
The appraisal for our house purchase came in fine yesterday. We signed off on all the improvements required for the sale. The only thing left is to close. The close will occur, God willing… Read More
2017-03-07 13:18
I am starting to talk to truck rental places. Some of you might know that, even though we are currently living in Dallas, all we have is an apartment and enough “stuff” to live t… Read More
2017-03-06 13:50
We bought a new house in Albany, Oregon back in about 2004 (picture to the left). When we bought the house it did not have anything but a small slab for a patio in the back. Grandpa Milo hel… Read More
2017-03-05 13:19
As Lorena and I are get closer to our move to Washington state, we get more anxious to figure out what we want to do with the old kitchen in the new (to us) house. I thought it would be fun… Read More
2017-03-04 18:26
Kelly and I had a very interesting discussion last night about her work. Her work is very similar to mine in many, many ways. The work Christian does has similarities to mine, but they are s… Read More
2017-03-02 16:39
Lorena is at the airport right now, waiting to return home from a very good stay with Christian. Of course Christian was slammed with work–he had to respond to reviewers on a paper he… Read More
2017-03-01 00:49
Christian uses his new whiteboard to think about hard problems while listening to music!
Lorena took this video surreptitiously Read More
2017-02-27 13:49
Grandpa Milo was an amazing cook. He always said presentation of food is often more important that even taste. He said that to everyone who ever cooked with him. Every time Grandpa Milo and… Read More
2017-02-26 13:45
For posterity and comparison, photos of Kiwi and Christian in their natural habitats Read More
2017-02-25 12:13
Douglas Axe is a highly trained molecular biologist (Cal Tech PhD, post-doc and research positions at Cambridge). He wrote a great article at The Stream about how facts get in the way of the… Read More
2017-02-24 19:21
Lorena arrived in Tempe now and Christian is taking her to lunch. She is sending me all kinds of meaninglessful pictures a couple of examples of which I present right here. The badge at the… Read More
2017-02-24 12:56
I dropped Lorena off at the airport at 5 AM this morning to go spend a week with Christian in Phoenix. They have a great time when they get together. It seems like every time Christian turns… Read More
2017-02-24 00:10
Lorena remodeled the kitchen in the house we bought in Raleigh. We liked it very much and were looking at its pictures as we prepare for what we hope is our final kitchen remodel in Washingt… Read More
2017-02-21 00:03
This weekend, I put the final touches on the prototype/demo version of the sickle cell disease software I am developing for Case Western Reserve University and HemexHealth. It will be demons… Read More
2017-02-19 14:04
Our new friends, Bob and Gena E. (we have so many common, old, old friends and things in common they actually feel like old friends) ran up to the house we are still trying to buy in Central… Read More
2017-02-18 20:34
I have been reflecting on it quite a bit lately and it seems kind of weird that both of our kids have been on their own and paying their own way for over two and a half years now. For our pa… Read More
2017-02-17 22:25
There is a grating song/beat poem that came out in 1970’s that was some sort of a theme for a certain element during my college years. You can see it here (if you must). It is called T… Read More
2017-02-15 15:02
My buddy, Mark P. met me in Centralia for the day on Monday to take a good look at the house we want to buy. We spent four hours in the house and came away feeling pretty good about it. Mark… Read More
2017-02-12 15:17
Lorena took me to McDonald’s early this morning then dropped me off at the airport. If all goes well, I will have a look at our (hopefully) new house along with my real estate agent an… Read More
2017-02-11 13:47
I saw the video below that a friend posted this video on Facebook last night about challenges for millennials in the workplace. I think it says some important things that has caused me to th… Read More
2017-02-10 18:02
I have been wearing the Fitbit Kelly and Christian got for me for a present a couple of years back and my miles/steps are pretty good during the week. I kind of fall off the wagon a little o… Read More
2017-02-07 14:34
We got a package in the mail the other day. It was a new skirt from Kelly for Lorena’s birthday. She wore it on Sunday to church. It is beautiful and we were thankful for both a beauti… Read More
2017-02-03 18:00
There might be a better Credit Union in the world, but I seriously believe the one to which our little family belongs is at the top of the heap. We have been members for just about twenty ye… Read More
2017-02-03 15:26
11.4 of 60
This weekend, I am finally getting to the place where I will be able to work on some of my side projects. I have decided to put a system together to do the things I normally have… Read More
2017-02-02 22:38
We are have had all kinds of challenges with our house negotiations in Washington state. It turns out the current owner of the house is a trial lawyer. If you REALLY want to know how the neg… Read More
2017-02-01 20:55
10.6 of 60
I went backwards about a pound and a half on my exercise/diet program, but other than that, life is pretty good. I am beating my buddy Lyle W. like a drum on the number of steps o… Read More
2017-01-28 20:35
I am not sure how much I wrote about the struggle we were having getting to a close on the house we wanted to buy in Washington state, but just a few days before the funeral the whole deal f… Read More
2017-01-28 15:13
12.0 of 60
All my life, I have had people tell me they dreamed about their parents after they died. I have heard it from people in both Mexico and here in the U.S., pretty much described in… Read More
2017-01-28 03:50
9.8 of 60
We change apartments tomorrow. We wanted to extend our lease in the old apartment, but had already given notice when we thought we had a house bought so we are having to make a mov… Read More
2017-01-26 20:08
Down 10.7 of 60
Just when I thought stuff would slow down again, everything seems to be speeding–in a good way. We have to figure out where we want to live. To give ourselves time to d… Read More
2017-01-24 19:54
After things started to settle down a little in our lives since the funeral, I had been trying to figure out what to do next. The folks were gone and the kids are on their own and are way to… Read More
2017-01-23 23:23
Down 3 of 55.
I noticed something from one of the photos taken over the weekend of Grandpa Milo’s and Grandma Sarah’s funeral. I am WAY fat right now. There is really no excuse… Read More
2017-01-22 13:45
Lorena and I went to the funeral of a man we really did not know yesterday. It was truly a wonderful funeral of a kind and wonderful man. In form, it was very different from the memorial ser… Read More
2017-01-20 14:57
Lorena, Kelly, Christian and I had time to spend together as a nuclear family while we were out in the Pacific Northwest for Grandpa Milo’s and Grandma Sarah’s funeral. We all ag… Read More
2017-01-18 14:18
It seemed appropriate to everyone that there should be at least a modicum of chaos surrounding Grandpa Milo’s and Grandma Sarah’s funeral. Sunday afternoon before the memorial se… Read More
2017-01-16 15:19
NEW LOCATION!!! — The memorial service had to be changed to:
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Willamette Falls
710 6th St
Oregon City, Oregon
Time: 11:00 AM
CURRENT STATUS: Th… Read More
2017-01-12 16:01
The weather is monumentally bad all over the Pacific Northwest. Kelly was scheduled to work in Oregon today for her job and just stay there after work today until the funeral. Lorena, Christ… Read More
2017-01-12 13:16
Christian uses his phone so much for the stuff he does at school that after two and a half years with his Samsung Note 4, he about wore it out. He wanted to get a new one, but the deals are… Read More
2017-01-11 23:09
Kelly got her first business cards today. She had some for her graduate degree, but it was just not the same. She has a very cool title, too! There is nothing like getting your new business… Read More
2017-01-11 18:36
Click here.
Milo and Sarah’s obituaries and weather postponement notice (if necessary)
Just thought I should put this here because the Memorial Service info is not a regular blog post… Read More
2017-01-10 15:08
The blog was down for a few days due to technical issues. I am kind of glad for that because so much has been going that if I would have written about it in real time I would certainly have… Read More
2017-01-06 12:23
There is a very interesting post on the state of war and violence in the world over at the Strategy Page site (h.t. Bayou Renaissance Man). The whole post was very educational for me because… Read More
2017-01-05 13:20
Last night was the last scheduled Wednesday night Bible study we will have at our little apartment here in Lewisville. We had it there bi-weekly, but because we are moving at the end of the… Read More
2017-01-03 13:58
Grandpa Milo died January 1. Dad was one of those bigger than life guys who started his life in a migrant farm worker family picking hops, beans and strawberries around the state of Oregon a… Read More
2017-01-02 17:19
There funeral for Milo and Sarah Chapman is on January 16 at 10:30 AM at the Milwaukie High School Auditorium. Here are the details:
Date:
MLK Day, Monday, January 16, 2017
Time:
10:30… Read More
2017-01-02 06:30
Just a brief note to let everyone know that Grandpa Milo died peacefully tonight. The funeral is currently scheduled for both he and Grandma Sarah on January 16 in the Milwaukie, Oregon. I w… Read More
2017-01-01 22:42
As Kelly saw in the New Year getting squired about town with her hoity-toity California posse, all of the rest of us, Christian included, were too sick even to go to church this morning. Sha… Read More
2017-01-01 05:26
Going to bed at 11:30 Read More
2016-12-31 15:56
2016 was a strange and wondrous year for Lorena and I. A semi-chronological list of what happened does not do justice to a year fraught with emotion and challenges, but that is all I have in… Read More
2016-12-30 12:49
Yesterday, I saw Lorena giggling as she looked at her phone as I walked to the car where she waited to take me home from work. When I asked her what that was all about. She showed me a joke… Read More
2016-12-28 19:00
It was nice to have Christian back in the house for a few days doing his guitar exercises. He says this is not music–just exercises, but we like to listen to it anyway. Click here to… Read More
2016-12-26 23:47
We miss Kelly dearly during her first Christmas ever away from family. It is all good, though. The Hormans were very kind to invite her to spend the holiday with them in beautiful Leavenwort… Read More
2016-12-25 00:18
We just got back from picking up Christian up at the airport. This is our first year when we were not able to all be together for the holidays. Christian will fly back to go to a get-togethe… Read More
2016-12-17 21:38
In the great “who makes the best tacos and tamales in the world” religious war, Lorena and I are decidedly on the side of those whose culinary skills emanate from Monterrey. We h… Read More
2016-12-15 22:17
CONGRATULATIONS LYNN!!!! We are all very proud of Tio Lynn, child number three (Lorena is four) of Grandpa Lauro and Grandma Conchita. He earned his law degree and we all now have to call hi… Read More
2016-12-13 12:46
Just a short note to our friends–Grandpa Milo had a stroke on Sunday. Currently, he is confused a lot of the time and does not have the use of his left hand and arm. He was in the hosp… Read More
2016-12-11 04:49
On changes as big as we are about to make, it is hard not to recriminate a little bit. That being said, the move we are making to Western Washington feels pretty good. It appears to be an Ok… Read More
2016-12-09 13:04
After a few rather typical posturings and gyrations, our offer for this house was accepted by the seller. Now, if we can navigate our way to a close, we will be moving into this thing someti… Read More
2016-12-08 12:31
Lorena finished her house search yesterday and found one she liked so we made an offer. We are not sure yet whether we will be able to get it, but we have our fingers crossed. This is the v… Read More
2016-12-07 12:32
Lorena took the train from SeaTac Airport up to downtown Seattle and hang around window and coffee shopping until Kelly got off work. They went out for dinner and took this excellent Christm… Read More
2016-12-06 20:32
Lorena flew out to Seattle this morning to spend a couple of days looking for a house. This is a shot she took from the train between SeaTac Airport and Kelly’s house. We have decided… Read More
2016-12-03 22:55
I have seen some of the strange things you can see on Street View of Google Maps, but this is the first time I found one on my own. I was cruising around a small town in Western Washington l… Read More
2016-12-02 18:45
I follow a blog called Dangerous Idea that often has interesting comment conversations on a range of topics, many of them dealing with God and Christianity. One comment provides a list of so… Read More
2016-12-01 14:03
I signed and returned the acceptance letter for a job offer yesterday. The company’s headquarters are in Vancouver, BC, but I will work from home somewhere in Washington State. This ch… Read More
2016-11-30 20:54
W. of D. = Word of the Day
Water Spinky = Reminder to water boss’s office plant
Latin words = The person’s animal in Latin–People guess what they are and write it in the b… Read More
2016-11-30 13:14
I have worked as a Machine Vision engineer for over thirty years. Grandma Sarah actually found an ad for a technical writing/industrial training position with a robot/vision company in Corva… Read More
2016-11-28 13:18
All Grandma Sarah’s remaining childern (me–Dad, Uncle, Aunt Julia and Aunt Jean–on the left two boxes of the conference call video strip at the top of this post) as well as… Read More
2016-11-25 02:30
Even thought Kelly and Christian could not be with us for Thanksgiving, we were thankful they could be with family in California Read More
2016-11-24 18:58
Lorena has been earning points for shopping at the Tom Thumb supermarket near where we live. She used all her points to buy a new turkey cooking pan and rack because our old pan started to r… Read More
2016-11-24 16:52
Christian hitched a ride with his friend Nathan to spend Thanksgiving weekend with the Rizos in San Diego. Kelly flew down last night from Seattle to join the crowd. We tried to figure out a… Read More
2016-11-23 00:53
Kelly sent me a great article on how to raise successful girls. I think it is great and almost surely applies to boys as well. It is titled Want to Raise Successful Daughters? Science Says N… Read More
2016-11-19 20:08
Trisha sent this along and it is just perfect! Kelly and Christian, please take notes Read More
2016-11-19 16:19
Over ten years ago (starting in February 2006), I decided I would try to be more consistent in my reading of the Bible. One thing that helps me stay on track with that kind of thing is setti… Read More
2016-11-15 13:16
Just one more Grandma Sarah story (I cannot help myself). Aunt Julia sent me a chunk of an old instant message she sent me sometime last year. It reminded us that one of Grandma Sarah’… Read More
2016-11-14 14:13
My brother, Uncle Doug, my sisters, Aunts Julia and Jean and I all feel good about the arrangements for Grandma Sarah’s funeral. In particular, we feel good about making sure Grandpa M… Read More
2016-11-12 16:09
The photo to the left is of Grandma Sarah picking beans with her twin sister Janet’s second son Neil. It is pretty descriptive of a lot of my upbringing. Neil and I were both second so… Read More
2016-11-11 12:42
I thought it would be good to explain the funeral arrangements we are making to say goodbye to Grandma Sarah because they are a little bit out of the ordinary. Doug, Julia and Jean who are v… Read More
2016-11-10 12:32
Mom (Grandma Sarah) died last night. She was with Aunts Julia and Jean, Uncle Doug and two of her grandchildren, Amy and Charlie. I flew out from Texas to Seattle last weekend and was able t… Read More
2016-11-09 12:56
The selection of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton yesterday is the strangest ever election season in my experience. It is not so much that way because of who is running or what is at stake… Read More
2016-11-09 12:08
I wanted to post Kelly’s Master of Science in Business Administration diploma as it is the current high mark in her educational efforts. She is almost certainly not done yet (talked to… Read More
2016-11-04 04:30
Kelly picked me up at the airport in Seattle this afternoon after her work. I am going to meet with a company tomorrow morning that, amazingly, is located on the 19th floor in the same build… Read More
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