Category: Family
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The 3Day, Opus 5
In our first year of marriage, we chose a “cause” and joined a massive community of people working to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease. The Breast Cancer 3Day 60-Mile Walk benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure has played an important part in our lives ever since. I’ve been a proud Gear &…
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Google is awesome. Google is also a little scary.
I need not elaborate on Google’s awesomeness. The scariness: crawling my blog within five minutes of my posting last night’s entry. MY site!? I knew it had been crawled before, when I first got the domain and started blogging, but I had no idea the bots were persistent and wide-ranging enough to grab my random…
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Parenting, literally and figuratively.
Parenting is hard. I’m not complaining, mind you, just stating a fact. Allow me to illustrate with two anecdotes. Having a fever of 102°F sucks. Being less than 13 months old with a fever of 102°F sucks a couple of ways. First, you have no idea why you feel so crappy; you have no life…
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One-a-day, like vitamins.
Thanks to my lovely wife‘s pointing it out to me, courtesy of our lovely friend Aaryn posting about it, I’ve joined in the madness that is National Blog Posting Month, affectionately known as NaBloPoMo. Perhaps this will prompt me to establish a regular posting schedule, which in turn will drive me closer to my ultimate…
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It’s the Irony, Stupid: Hospitality and Spirituality in the Middle East, Then and Now
When I started writing this (Sunday, July 15 or thereabouts) I didn’t know where it was going, so I didn’t post it. It took about a week for the realization to sink in that the thing that brought these two subjects into relief for me was the irony and sadness over the powerful positive connotations…
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Random thoughts
I ought to be blogging more. edited to add: and I ought to fix/edit my sidebar contents. I had a productive day at work today, with a “third time’s a charm” situation regarding videotaping a presentation given by our esteemed young employer relations specialist and a rep from SDG&E. Then the day was made more…
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Reasons #1 and #1 that I’m a happy man
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In case you missed it…
Here’s that local news piece about my meeting with Phyllis in May. And yes, I’m really still working on writing the story.
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Lights, love, and life
This was the culmination of an amazing few days spent in the company of the woman who received my bone marrow donation almost two years ago (story to follow). The San Diego skyline from Coronado
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Aba, my head Hertz!
It’ll be a while before my daughter can talk, so I was excited when I saw this on BoingBoing. Then I read the page and calmed down. First, I’d need to have WAY more electrical engineer tendencies to put this together. Second, the receiver has to be hooked up to a PC parallel port; the…