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I don’t know about you, but I had a great holiday. The sort you just know you’ll pay for in spades. And after nearly two years all but entirely free from video games, I rediscovered my addiction during the two weeks before the new year. It began with Madden NFL for the Xbox, which then exploded into the wonderful World of Warcraft ( Read more... )

I spent most of our Saturday night out avoiding elbows and jostling for space. Grandma was home babysitting, and yet we found ourselves feeling fairly foreign to the crowded but festive scene. After a brief pause at the door, we plunged in, and I was glad there was no dance floor there, as I didn't have the mosh pit mentality I probably would ( Read more... )

You turned seventeen months old today. In the last thirty days, your growth has been subtly overwhelming. There were no first steps, no first words, no spontaneous ability to quote Shakespeare or read Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber. Yet you ran where you had walked, used new words every day, and have set about memorizing your board books ( Read more... )

A really long time ago, which happens to be a span of almost exactly eleven years, I was sitting in my dorm room staring furiously at the forest green carpet. I wasn’t actually angry at the carpet, outrageously ugly as it was according to my outrageously gay neighbor (who would describe himself as such whenever someone asked how he was doing-“I’m ( Read more... )

So we were sitting on the steps this afternoon comparing our Hot Wheels, and as usual, I wondered why she always got the Porsche 911 and Corvette and I always got the Smart car. But that’s not the point, despite being the first sentence. The point is that we were sitting on the steps to distract her from her efforts to walk down the stairs, which ( Read more... )

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Okay. So I'm out at the best dive bar in town with the other otolaryngology residents earlier this evening, drinking a few beers and laughing about our discussion (actually quite serious) regarding the likelihood that aliens exist. Not the foreign but human sort, but rather the extra-terrestrial kind. Yah. And then we talk about ourselves as we ( Read more... )

My daughter pointed to a wall today and called it a door in Mandarin, which I corrected after consulting the appropriate authorities. Who are my wife and my wife. I could see the similarities, I suppose, given that walls and doors are both vertically imposing, stiff obstacles for my 15 month old. But doors open, and therein lies the rub. Hence ( Read more... )

So I IMed with an LJer I’ve never met today, and after several rounds of wit on her part and almost entirely witless counters on mine, she made a casual comment implying our age difference, to which my immediate gut reaction was to type quite adamantly that I was not that old ( Read more... )