http://www.robohara.comThe Adventures of Rob, Susan, Mason and Morgan O'HaraenTue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:16 PDTnoThe Adventures of Rob, Susan, Mason and Morgan O'Harahttp://www.robohara.com/?p=1563I hope the ladies over at The Launching Pad don't kill me for posting this. Last week, Lynda (director of The Launching Pad, the daycare both my kids currently attend and have attended since birth) conspired with Susan to convince me to film, edit, and burn a video to DVD. The ...http://www.robohara.com/?p=1561The following story is true. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Saturday: 2pm Morgan has been talking about hermit crabs off and on since encountering them on the beach in Cozumel, so Susan decided to buy her one. After dropping Mason off over at a friend's house to play, ...http://www.robohara.com/?p=1557Yesterday afternoon a door-to-door salesman came knock-knock-knocking. The kid was dressed in nice, conservative summer clothes (jean shorts, tucked in polo, baseball cap) with a clipboard in hand ... probably twenty or so years old. Unfortunately for me the wooden door was open so our friend could plainly see we were ...http://www.robohara.com/?p=1556Spindles full of DVDs surround my monitor. To the left of me is a stack of CDs waiting to be ripped to MP3; to the right are ones that have already been ripped. Various electronics lie scattered around my work area: a Palm Treo cell phone I haven't used in ...http://www.robohara.com/?p=1555I'm not even looking forward to anything particular this weekend; I'm just looking forward to, well, not working for a couple of days.http://www.robohara.com/?p=1550I run my own mail server. My mail server does a lousy job of stopping spam, but my e-mail client (Outlook Express running SpamBrave) does a pretty good job of it. What this means is that every spam message sent to my mail server comes to my computer, where it ...http://www.robohara.com/?p=1545In 1982, my family attended the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was eight-years-old at the time and some of my strongest memories of that trip aren't of the fair itself, but rather our stay in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. My dad once described Pigeon Forge as "a sideshow without a ...http://www.robohara.com/?p=1537As I mentioned last year, back at Myers Elementary I was classmates with Jerry Buffington. In 1982, Jerry's step-dad Tom Wayne recorded and released the hit single "We Called Him E.T." The single sold "thousands of copies" according to Wayne's website. My sister and I owned two of them. I ...http://www.robohara.com/?p=1534Back when I was in elementary school we learned a song called "Fifty Nifty United States" (Lyrics). If nothing else, learning it is a great parlor trick; I've bet people I could recite all fifty states alphabetically in less than 30 seconds before and won. As a kid singing that ...http://www.robohara.com/?p=1529Funny, when things get the busiest in my life I post the least. Then when things slow down I write posts that start off with "Boy, have I been busy!" Like this one. Boy, have I been busy! I think it will be easier to go backwards, chronologically. Sunday was Morgan's ...nonadult