Thinking about numbers, fairness, and justice lately. Consider nut allergies. Exposure to various sorts of nuts can cause anaphylactic shock. The person (victim? potential survivor?) gasps, unable to breathe. Without help (usually epinephrine), they can die. That’s pretty bad, right? The question is “To what…
I post this from the kitchen laptop (yeah, that’s right, old G4 laptops don’t die in my house – they become the kitchen laptop). I feel moved to record a couple of martini recipes. For all of my martinis, the procedure is very similar: *…
We have some very normal, very ordinary interactions around the house during the day. For example, sometime this morning I noticed the basement door was a little bit open, so I shut it. Sometime this afternoon, I’m freshening my coffee and I hear a muffled…
Today, I ordered replacements for my trusty boots. The Asolo FSN 95 GTX boot is the best boot in the entire universe. I wore my first pair from 2001 through 2007, and now the second pair has been beaten to death in a mere 3…
Here’s the list as I see it now: 1) Don’t get so run down. I looked at pictures from 2009, and I could see both Jen and I wearing down from travel, work, and the set of unfinished projects with which we both burdened ourselves.…
Tonight has been a righteous party. We began with sorting stuff. I went up in the spider riddled attic – source of various sorts of nightmare. I found something that has eluded us for years: My grandfather brought back a katana from his time in…
In which correctness is dispensed, and nonsense dispensed with. Specifically: The 201st Decade, known as “The Aughts”, ended last night. * The “Twentieth Century” ran from Jan 1901 through Dec 2000.* The “Nineteen Hundreds” ran from Jan 1900 through Dec 1999.* The “Nineties” ran from…
Welcome to the future, again. I have, per usual plan, stayed up much too late. I have hung out with my sister, my dad, and assorted of their friends. I have enjoyed the pink “champagne,” and disliked the “good stuff.” I have missed Jen’s company.…
Yesterday was not as robustly successful as Monday. It started off with a phone call from – on her phone. Which was sitting next to the beeper. While she was at work. So up I hove and rolled in to the hospital to deliver these…