When I was playing with YouTube last night, in order to pull out the music for that wildly dissimilar mix, it occurred to me that essentially everything is on YouTube–a revelation that’s been brewing at least since I found Closet Land on there.
So I decided to see if there was anything there featuring my brother. [...]
I work every day with people all over the world. Consequently, it is often hard to set a meeting time that is useful to everyone who needs to be in a meeting.
I am quite prepared to work in the evenings, and often do, but I really, really, want to keep that narrow window of time [...]
How is it that four years have gone by so fast?
Does it really only take four years to turn a gang-sign throwing newborn into a young lady who uses facepaints to make herself into a tiger?
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I found myself at breakfast this morning with the birthday girl, her mom, and her grandfather. During a moment alone [...]
Apparently my daughter is now old enough that when I’m away on business we send each other emails1.
In order to illustrate for some people at my office why it was that I no longer was interested in my business travel being any more than the bare functional minimum, I showed them today’s missive:
When you come [...]
I’m working on a post with a bunch of information about the various things I got up to this week while I was away from the Internets. In the interim, here’s one photo that captures the way most of the week went:
So, yeah, it was a pretty good week.
Warning: this will be a Sappy Dad™ post.
I woke up this morning to a smiling three year old face. I was wished a Happy Father’s Day, and handed this:
I was unsurprised by the signature, as I have seen Sarah working on writing her name quite a few times now. I was pretty shocked by the [...]
I have often said that I hate hockey. That’s a product of being a kid in a family where my dad played in two leagues, and my brother played, and did hockey school all summer. That meant that I was pretty much always at the rink. At least three nights a week one of them [...]
This weekend marked both the 7th anniversary of my wedding to a woman who is much too good for me1, and the 10th anniversary of the day we “officially” started going out.
Time flies. It seems like the five year mark was just a minute ago.
According to traditional sources, the 7th wedding anniversary is marked with [...]
I had one of those shocking epiphanies today. I realized, seriously, completely, viscerally, that I am going to die someday.
There was no hair-raising event, no near death experience, nothing dramatic. Just a realization that hit me during a very long drive, when I had some time to think about what it meant. Harlan Ellison is [...]
Last night my mother sent me one of those horrible “email forwards”. She’s the only person with my email address who actually passes these hideous things on to me, knock on wood.
This one was one of those tedious things that abuse casuistry to snark at people who put reason above faith–you know the type, the [...]
A couple of weeks back when Trish had her birthday, Sarah and I spent an afternoon making her a birthday cake. From scratch. That’s right–no mixes for us. If you’ve ever baked with a 3-year old, you will know that this can be terribly fun, if a bit messy.
The cake that we made was pretty [...]
(This is a bit journal-ish. Skip ahead if that kind of stuff doesn’t interest you.)
You know, the last time I can back from Australia, I was hungover and carrying the Aussie death flu bug, and I was wiped out for several weeks.
This time I seem to have been wiped out first, and then picked up [...]
I wonder, he said, after spending a day in his hometown, where hasn’t lived for over 15 years now, what is more depressing: returning to your a place you once knew well after 15 years and seeing all the ways it has changed, or how little it actually has?
This place hasn’t been home for well [...]
One thing that the article about Steve didn’t go into was how he was spending his “summer off” after ending his hockey career.
I think I can explain that in pictorial form. Here’s a picture from late summer:
and here’s a picture from early fall:
Steve’s quote: “42.5 inches, 16.5 lbs. I still want the big one.”
I wonder [...]
I just had a Thanksgiving conversation with my little1 brother, who is five days into his new career today. That reminds me that I need to post something about the big story that ran in our hometown paper about the end of his last career.
Normally I’m used to seeing my brother in papers in a [...]
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