I had a quietly fabulous time with Jules Monday night. The scheduled Event of the evening was to watch Before Sunset together. I had bought that DVD and my copy of Before Sunrise with her back in December of 2006, and sweat through the break in not watching them on my own, to save the experience for her. I had seen them a few years earlier, and ( Read more... )

Another waking in the middle of the night. (Heh. Just found your note. Thanks, Em.) Took a few hours out to finally catch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this past evening with Mike and Donna, over at the glamourous Oriental Theatre, though not, unfortunately, in the main theatre, as it would have been if I'd seen it in the ( Read more... )

How amazing is it, that there is still something new of the Master's to discover? I never get to find things like this tucked into my things! That said, I'm turning in: I've been up working for 32 hours and I've earned my rest.

Vatican: Michelangelo Sketch Found
Dec 6, 3:52 PM (ET)

By FRANCES D'EMILIO


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Sanctuary of Rome's 'Founder' Revealed
Nov 20, 8:03 PM (ET)


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Mike and Donna bought a place last year, a Milwaukee Bungalow in the Riverwest neighbourhood, that needed lots of work done on it in order to convert it from duplex to the single-family home that they wanted. Now, when I think of "fixing up" a place I move into, I'm thinking painting and maybe some very basic wood surface work. Mike, like Dan, ( Read more... )

This last week featured lots of running around with Jen, more than I would have thought possible after the comparatively excessive amount of free time that it was possible to squeeze out of my Spring Break. Last Sunday, after trying out a French restaurant south of the Third Ward, we took in the Saw Doctors' concert at the Potawatami Bingo Casino ( Read more... )

The end of the recorded journal from the Europe Trip 2006 through Geneva, Venice and Florence.

Tuesday 25 July 2006
3:42pm
Sitting at the gate in Newark right now, waiting for the flight to Milwaukee to start boarding shortly. The last day closed fabulously. What is it today? Today’s the 26th, so yesterday was the 25th. So I think the last ( Read more... )

Bloody hell. The non-healing sore on the side of my nose turned out not to be just a weird little wound that wouldn't heal, nor an evil killer zit, but cancer. The biopsy I had on Tuesday came back Friday afternoon as a basal cell carcinoma, very basic, non-metastasizing, and not really dangerous. So I won't have to have chemo or radiation, but ( Read more... )

Tuesday 25 July 2006
8:57am
Now it’s Thursday … Thursday?! No. Tuesday. Tuesday morning. I suppose getting toward 9ish. I’m sitting on the steps of Sacré Coeur, just past where the Rue Général-Dufour breaks off from the Boulevard Georges Favon, that I've been walking down. It's just a little ways down the street from the synagogue here in ( Read more... )

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