Many a blogger, I’m sure, has pondered the question: Is it nobler to let one’s blog languish, or to fill it with pointless crappy posts?

In choosing to alternately let the blog languish and then produce pointless crappy posts you can see that I have not answered this question. Tonight I opt for a crappy post.

Last weekend I flew to a wedding in DC with small child. I don’t really like flying. It isn’s so much the actual flying itself, it’s the stress of getting through security, getting on the airplane, making sure there is space for carry-ons, figuring out what to do when the airline decides to strand you somewhere. These stresses are multiplied by about a zillion when traveling with small child. The main stresses are making sure that the wife small child and I will all gets seats together, and then worrying about what I can do if small child decides to scream at the top of her lungs (answer: not much, but I still worry.) This is not the first time small child flew. Earlier she made a trip to Nashville and was fine until the last fifteen minutes of the last leg of the return trip. How long is fifteen minutes, you ask? Long enough for me to swear off flying with a child ever again and then reiterate several times with, “No! I’m serious! Never again!” when the wife rolled her eyes. Given that small child is less than a year old you can see how long “never again” is for me.

Shortly after returning our fridge died. One evening there was this sound kind of like a short-lived waterfall coming from our fridge. We looked inside and nothing had spilled. We looked at the floor under the fridge and it was dry. The next day everything in our freezer was kind of melty. We never really liked the fridge anyway, so we’ll probably replace it, but in the mean time it’s a big pain in the ass. It’s summer and I have nothing cold to drink. The best I can do is let the cold water tap run for a while before drinking it. And that isn’t really great. Meal planning is made more complicated -- although I suppose it could be simpler if I resigned myself to oatmeal and rice.

More later ... Hopefully.