I took the bus out this morning—in a couple of inches of fresh snow— for an hour-long drive across town. New tires are going on, the back window is being reinstalled, holes in the roof are being sealed, and hopefully a few other projects that would suck up a lot … Read More

Despite our best efforts, Lowe is a morning person. He wakes up a full hour and a half before Ouest—and before we’d like to be awake—but we can’t change him. He’s chipper. We make him wait until six o’clock before we head downstairs to face the day, and then we … Read More

Ali took the kids to a play area the other day. Ouest started playing with a girl who asked her name. Ouest is still struggling with the S sound, so Ouest sounds a lot like Wet. She told her her name a couple of times and then the girl turned … Read More

It feels like things are moving right along now. Never as fast as we’d like, but we’re getting there. Our friend Mike—whose shed we’re parked in—has been helping me out with some of the wiring craziness. He was finally able to cut the last wire off the old, heavily abused … Read More

The last couple of days I’ve gotten a few things done on the bus. The big one is the insulation. I had finally decided that maybe I would go with the spray foam insulation. I ended up getting two quotes out of the six companies I contacted. Both were for … Read More

Life is pretty tame around here at the moment. I go off most mornings to work on the bus while Ali takes the kids out somewhere to try and burn a little energy. We meet back up in the afternoon, play, eat, take a bath, and go to bed. It … Read More

I was working on the bus this morning when I suddenly realized I could no longer feel my feet. That’s how I know it is time to call it quits for the day. Yesterday Ali’s dad gave me a hand removing the rooftop air-conditioner. Wow did they overbuild the crap … Read More

We went bowling today. I rolled a 197. The family was completely unimpressed with my bowling prowess and in the end decided that they deserved trophies and I did not. They took all my quarters, deposited them in vending machines, and walked away with piles of plastic Chinese jewelry as … Read More

So Ali and I went back and forth with what to do to the walls. Currently they have a sort of blue wood-grain paper glued to them, which I quickly realized would take three to four years to remove. I then tried to convince her that keeping it would be … Read More

I got back the other night after the kids had gone to bed. At 5:30 in the morning Ouest called out and I went in to check on her. She was sitting up in bed and as I walked up to her she said to me, “I just wanted a … Read More