Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

On October 15th, a new girl will join our family!

It is finally summer time and what that means here is time to destroy paintings. We have a second bedroom full of works of art that will either go one of two places: to your house or to the fire. Literally.  read more »

If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Every time the end of a semester comes along, we have a week like this one. Assignments pile up and end-of-semester presentations need to be cleaned up and polished off. Add to that a unique twist: even though Rebecca is out of school, she was put into a week long training class with a design firm in San Francisco by her company.  read more »

We're having a kid! Rebecca is expecting our first child on the 15th of October. We'll keep people posted. If you want to know the sex, you have to make a guess first.

This is the second book in the Percy Jackson series; which Rebecca and I both think is almost an exact copy of the structure of the Harry Potter series. Just in a mythology setting. But that doesn't make this a bad book: instead, the story keeps itself under control and poses some interesting plot conundrums which make this story a well written children's tale.  read more »

There's not really much to talk about this week. We played games with friends Sunday evening. Rebecca worked during the week days. Wayne worked on school projects pretty much whenever he wasn't sleeping. Rebecca met Wayne on campus several nights and read while he worked on projects. There really wasn't too much else to the week. Even Saturday most of the day Rebecca took care of errands while Wayne worked on school projects.  read more »

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

-Alexander Calder

There are only two more weeks of this semester left, so naturally that means procrastinating things until the end. Half of the nights this week, I got home at around 9, which meant making dinner, talking with Rebecca and then going to bed. Between that, and reading books until late, and watching more movies than we have all semester...  read more »

Another Terry Pratchett. But not a Terry Pratchett.

This book was a serious fantasy novel. Even poignant. Even touching. Not comedic. I chuckled once. In fact, the only thing which ties this novel into the previous Discworld series books is that it takes place on the same planet [okay, so maybe there's a little bit more than that]. So imagine a series of novels about New York City and using the same characters, and then you pick up one about Tibet.  read more »