Aug 312005
 

In black and white? Black man loots, white people find.

 

Seeing lots of family this past weekend got me thinking about mine. My father died at the age of 55, when I was 24. He was a Foreign Service officer, and I wanted to be like him. When I was an undergraduate, I was very unfocused, taking courses in wildly differing areas and not doing [...]

Aug 242005
 

Just back from a family wedding on San Juan Island. We flew to Seattle, rented a car, hooked up with family, drove to Anacortes and took the ferry to San Juan. The ferry is nicely accessible, with an elevator from the car deck up to the people deck (whatever that’s called). The hour long ferry [...]

 

Excellent! Check out the picture at the very end of Lisy Babe’s “Give my Grandad’s teeth back”.

Aug 132005
 

I have three kids going back to school in a week and a half, and we’re going to my nephew’s wedding next weekend. This confluence of events means that I’ve been a shopping maniac for the last several weeks. After several false starts, I think I now have my wedding guest ensemble (thank you, Nordstrom [...]

Aug 132005
 

Phrases I don’t ever need to hear/read again: But you look so good! I have MS, but it doesn’t have me! I’m gonna beat this thing! You either give in…or fight it. I’m gonna fight it! It’s all in the attitude. Don’t you worry—a cure is around the corner…look how far they’ve come with cancer. [...]

Aug 122005
 

A course based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity is sweeping my company. I haven’t taken the course, but after hearing all the raves from people who have, I got the book. I haven’t gotten very far, but I have done what my co-workers are raving about: emptied my email [...]

Aug 112005
 

I’ve finally hopped on the aggregator bandwagon, and have subscribed to all the blogs I usually read (except the ones that don’t seem to have feeds :-(, see the little null signs in the sidebar). I suspect I’m losing track of the comments part of the blogosphere, though. How does everyone else keep up with [...]

Aug 082005
 

I’ve been out of step with modern fish eating for some time – whenever I order tuna or salmon, I hasten to add that I want it actually cooked all the way through. I had lunch with a friend recently who gave me hard time for wanting to kill my tuna again. The Bride recently [...]

 

William Rehnquist is the Chief Justice of the United States. He is also a cancer patient, who has been able to continue working with accomodations, which have presumably included time off for chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and the ability to keep his government job at will. Patricia Garrett is the former Director of OB/GYN/Neonatal Services [...]

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