Long time, no post. And not much time now before work. However, and I'm sure most of you are watching this, but Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog is the best thing ever. It is a project Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy, Angel, Firefly, etc) cooked up during the writers strike. It starts Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie, How I Met Your Mother) as an ( Read more... )

So I haven't posted in two weeks, and it has been a doozy of a two weeks. It included a trip to Seattle, and my parents coming up here. Thus I will give you the details in a bulleted list format that allows me some laxity in chronological order.

• Went to Seattle to see my sister get graduated from University of Washington. She is now the proud ( Read more... )

As always, my holiday was wonderful and blessed. Sunday (the 23rd) my sister and brother-in-law came in town and I headed to my parents house to spend some time with them, mainly spend playing card games and eating yummy pizza ( Read more... )

There's been a lot going on and so I bring you a list of random bits of update like things...

• One of my favorite children's books (chapter books, probably 5th-6th grade reading level) in the last couple of years is Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Yes, that Dave Barry, one of my favorite writers and humor columnist ( Read more... )

Sometime in the last two years I became a baseball fan, specifically a Kansas City Royals fan. My mom and my sister got there a year or two before I did as hardcore. In our family baseball isn't a father/son thing as much as it is a mother/daughter thing. I went to a lot of games this year (my mom got an awesome coupon pack and was very generous ( Read more... )

I'm in Seattle visiting my fabulous sister (michaeljfoxfan). She never updates her journal, but there it is. We (my mother and I) flew in Thursday and just sort of hung out. Yesterday, we went to a chocolate factory, a winery, a library (but not the big Seattle library - that's today), Susan's campus (University of Washington), Microsoft campus (where brother ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I'm off to Seattle with my mom to see my sister (and her husband who is also very cool). I'm quite exctied. There will be a winery, a chocolate factory, and the Seattle Public Library (which was a big deal in the library world when it opened, is supposed to be either very "revolutionary" or "weird" depending on your point of view). And ( Read more... )

This came across on our family's email list, and my mother wrote it so well that I had to repost (with permission).

( Purple Hair )

I'm fairly behind on my posting. Well, I'm not obligated to post, so I can't be behind. But there are things I wanted to say. Last week (two weeks ago actually August 16th - 19th), I had that rare thing of all rare things - a vacation. It's been a long busy summer, and while it has been very good, it also has been very stressful. On a "slow" ( Read more... )