Order from Chaos

The Brave Astronaut celebrated its New Years Eve with the OSG family last Friday night. Tonight, I have left Mrs. BA with the newest member...

The Brave Astronaut proudly announces the arrival of the newest member of his space station Welcome to the world, my young son. Mrs. BA an...

I should be in bed as we leave for the hospital tomorrow morning at 5:00am. There needs to be a few hours "prep time" and then the...

I have a few "starred" items in my Google Reader that I have been meaning to share. So here you are. There has been a discussion ...

While everyone comes out of their post-Christmas sugar comas, here's a little quiz to get the brain juices flowing. Now, no Googling. Th...

And so we have arrived at Christmas Day. My son slept in until 8:00 (how many more years will we get that?!) and then we did stockings in b...

It's Christmas Eve and the traditional Brave Astronaut family dinner growing up was homemade hamburgers and my father's homemade pot...

Yesterday was Christmas with Mrs. BA's family at our house. Unlike dinner on Friday night for my birthday, when I overate, as did all m...

For the Saturday before Christmas there was a lot to do here in our nation's capital. Of course, first and foremost was the screening o...

Today is Joe Paterno's 81st birthday. Last year, I wrote about Joe Pa's injury sustained on the sidelines during a game, which kep...

In about two hours time, the daily calendar will read December 20. It will also mark my fortieth birthday, the big 4-0. As someone once to...

A Christmas potpourri from the news columns over the past week. (Apologies if some of the links no longer work.) Christmas card arrives 93 ...

Special K, who reads this blog voraciously, sent me this link last week in response to the butter cookie recipe I posted. This site allows ...

My son sleeps tonight in a big boy bed. We bought a mattress and box spring (and a frame and headboard, but those will come later) and made...

10 days until Christmas and the house is not yet completely decorated, the shopping is not yet done, and the cookies I wanted to make are n...

Again, from C in DC, here's a bit of "Twisted Christmas." CHRISTMAS CAROLS FOR THE DISTURBED Schizophrenia - Do You Hear What ...

I thought you might like to see what has become the Brave Astronaut Christmas Tree (living room edition). You have heard the saga , here is...

[partially taken from the Official Google Blog ] You might think that NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) might have their ...

I am the keeper of the family treasures. It's my lot in life as an archivist. When we were clearing out my parent's house after my m...

We have a tree. Well, actually two trees. The Brave Astronaut family and the OSG family trucked off to this tree farm to murder some nature...