Stuff (Mike)
Have you noticed, Bill, that when we say that we're going to do something in this journal, we immediately go out and do the exact opposite? I find that odd. Thanks for writing so much, Mike and Bill. Thanks for breaking my cow lamp.
But I've had incredibly little to write about for the past two weeks. I'm working hard. The Twins aren't really doing anything right now, unless you count signing Ruben Sierra. And I don't, despite FoxSports.com's claim that he is a lock to make the team (seriously, this is about the dumbest move I could imagine the Twins making in constructing their roster. How do you need a DH-PH when you play in the American League and you've already signed a DH this offseason? This is the same reasoning they used to sign Jose Offerman, who happened to be five years younger, 20% better, and who didn't actually play well anyway.) Other than that, nothing is really going on in central PA (except all the Steelers fans who popped out of the woodwork last week).
We did get some good news on the Melissa front, however. My wife got some very encouraging encouragement from a leading figure in resperatory physiology who wants to collaborate with her on an experiment she is developing. The good news is that the experiment would be run in San Diego and, while we wouldn't move out there, we may have to go out there to get the thing set up. Well, she has to go out there to get the thing set up. I have to go out there to see a Padres game and enjoy the beach. As always, I'm very proud of my scientist of a wife who is well on her way to being way cooler than Galileo and Einstein rolled into one, and far cuter.
We have discovered the world's greatest buffalo wings here in Bellefonte at a place called Bonfatto's. We may be heading there tonight for their Thursday night wing special (6 for $1.99). Aside from it being the cool high school hang out on Thursdays, it's good times. I haven't been able to conquer their Fire in the Hole style yet, which is disconcerting considering I love and am able to tolerate just about any level of spiciness. Perhaps tonight is the night that I just order 12 of them and go to town. In a related story, perhaps tonight is the night that I burn a hole through my stomach lining and end up like the fat guy in Se7en.
I don't really want to talk about politics much this time around, except to say that, if Abraham Lincoln had used electronic surveillance during the Civil War (as Attorney General Gonzalez claimed before the Senate (good thing they didn't swear him in)), how come he didn't know about his own assassination ahead of time? See? Wire-tapping isn't so effective. Lincoln is still dead. By the way, I challenge anybody to explain to me why the Bush administration is in the right here. I mean, I grudgingly accept the need to monitor communications of American citizens who may be working for the enemy, but how does that give the President the authority to bypass the warrant process entirely? The President's excuse that he has to move quickly doesn't make sense since he can get the warrants up to three days after the tapping begins. What, there's not a spare lawyer around he can send up to the FISA court to get that shit taken care of? Are all the lawyers busy trying to figure out if the program is legal or not?
OK, that was an entire paragraph about politics, I apologize. Is there a way I can make it up to you? Let me know how and it shall be done. Now, I must shower, for I am disheveled and need to go to class in an hour.
But I've had incredibly little to write about for the past two weeks. I'm working hard. The Twins aren't really doing anything right now, unless you count signing Ruben Sierra. And I don't, despite FoxSports.com's claim that he is a lock to make the team (seriously, this is about the dumbest move I could imagine the Twins making in constructing their roster. How do you need a DH-PH when you play in the American League and you've already signed a DH this offseason? This is the same reasoning they used to sign Jose Offerman, who happened to be five years younger, 20% better, and who didn't actually play well anyway.) Other than that, nothing is really going on in central PA (except all the Steelers fans who popped out of the woodwork last week).
We did get some good news on the Melissa front, however. My wife got some very encouraging encouragement from a leading figure in resperatory physiology who wants to collaborate with her on an experiment she is developing. The good news is that the experiment would be run in San Diego and, while we wouldn't move out there, we may have to go out there to get the thing set up. Well, she has to go out there to get the thing set up. I have to go out there to see a Padres game and enjoy the beach. As always, I'm very proud of my scientist of a wife who is well on her way to being way cooler than Galileo and Einstein rolled into one, and far cuter.
We have discovered the world's greatest buffalo wings here in Bellefonte at a place called Bonfatto's. We may be heading there tonight for their Thursday night wing special (6 for $1.99). Aside from it being the cool high school hang out on Thursdays, it's good times. I haven't been able to conquer their Fire in the Hole style yet, which is disconcerting considering I love and am able to tolerate just about any level of spiciness. Perhaps tonight is the night that I just order 12 of them and go to town. In a related story, perhaps tonight is the night that I burn a hole through my stomach lining and end up like the fat guy in Se7en.
I don't really want to talk about politics much this time around, except to say that, if Abraham Lincoln had used electronic surveillance during the Civil War (as Attorney General Gonzalez claimed before the Senate (good thing they didn't swear him in)), how come he didn't know about his own assassination ahead of time? See? Wire-tapping isn't so effective. Lincoln is still dead. By the way, I challenge anybody to explain to me why the Bush administration is in the right here. I mean, I grudgingly accept the need to monitor communications of American citizens who may be working for the enemy, but how does that give the President the authority to bypass the warrant process entirely? The President's excuse that he has to move quickly doesn't make sense since he can get the warrants up to three days after the tapping begins. What, there's not a spare lawyer around he can send up to the FISA court to get that shit taken care of? Are all the lawyers busy trying to figure out if the program is legal or not?
OK, that was an entire paragraph about politics, I apologize. Is there a way I can make it up to you? Let me know how and it shall be done. Now, I must shower, for I am disheveled and need to go to class in an hour.