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• It has become necessary to make some of my posts "friends-only."  If you'd like to be able to read all my posts, I'll have to befriend you ( Read more... )

    Well, it's time to admit that my previous post was, as many of you suspected, my traditional April Fools' Day prank.  The full collection can be found here.
    Although this seems to have disappointed a few people, at least it frees me up to continue writing about my life, for better or for worse.  Today I checked out my first event run by ( Read more... )

    Two posts in a few days must be some sort of recent record for me.  Of course, the main reason is that I'm just generally busy, while a secondary reason is that it's easy enough to write quick notes about what I'm up to as mere "status updates" on Facebook (and MySpace, and Twitter).  Before these were issues, though, I was quite happy to spend ( Read more... )

    Of course, I'm not referring to that little sporting event.  Rather, I'm referring to this month, during which I've been out just about every night (or so it seems).  This is generally how I like it, but of course it can be exhausting and doesn't leave much time for blogging.  Here are some of the highlights for now, with probably more to come ( Read more... )

    Two prisoners are being forced to play a "game" with the warden.  One will be brought into the warden's office where there will be a chessboard with a coin on each square (oriented heads-up/tails-up randomly).  The warden will have already chosen a "special square" on the board and will reveal this choice to the prisoner.  The prisoner will ( Read more... )

    My youngest brother, David, has been studying hyenas in Kenya since early last year.  My parents thought it might be fun to visit him out there as a family vacation, and I decided to go along.

The trip for me began early Monday morning, January 11th, when I was driven to the airport (thanks Soley!) for my first flight, to Minneapolis.  The ( Read more... )

    scifantasy hit the nail on the head:
I see a classic circular problem.  I don't have time to update regularly (and miniature updates have been sent to Twitter), so when I do update, I want it to be a mega-huge "here's what's going on with me" update; which I don't have time for.  So I put it off ... and then I want it to be longer ... yeah.
I did actually ( Read more... )

    I have a long post in the works to cover the past few months.  Until then, let it be known that I'll be in AZ for Thanksgiving.  I'm flying out Wednesday (11/25) evening and will be flying back Tuesday (12/1) afternoon.  If you want to meet up with me, drop me a line.

    I guess it shouldn't be surprising that, in this economic climate, "my shirt is bankrupt" (coined by scifantasy here to mean that one is behind on posting; the original expression regarding "bankrupt pants" was invented here), at least in terms of what I've covered over the past couple of months.  This is my attempt to fill in gaps.

The Regular Events

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    So today is my 28th birthday, almost certainly my last perfect one.  I suppose I should reflect on this, but at the moment I'm a little busy.  I do have a big post "in the works" that will fill in some of the gaps of the last few months.  For now, though, I'll just share my birthday ecards.

• from my dad
• from my mom

(No, I don't know why they each ( Read more... )