Me and my kids. All week. For the first time, Johanna is going on a trip by herself. Well, not all by herself; she's going with her mom, and they are taking a flight to Costa Rica tonight, on Christmas. This is the first time she has left her children for more than a few [...]
I’m not just good at a couple of things. I’m good at nearly everything I do. Believe me, it’s a bitch. Life would be so much simpler if I had one skill, or one passion, and I applied myself to one thing for the rest of my life. But I could never deal with that. [...]
This is how Google saw 2010: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE&feature=player_embedded]
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKhb9qbweik"] This is the last one in the series. Great music, and adorable children playing in the Portland sunshine.
"Do you have health insurance?" I overheard my friendly local barista asking one of her regulars. "No, what are you talkin about? Of course not," he shrugged. "Why?" "Because I was hoping you could fake a sinus infection for me, and get me some antibiotics, for my sinus infection." This is what we've come to. [...]
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Really, why do I bother trying to work without coffee? It's only after I've been sluggishly pulling myself through make-believe-working, when I look up from my web surfing and look at the clock, that I realize I've wasted precious hours by not being focused and productive. I put on a pot of dark, thick coffee, [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqkiJzGICRw] They just...get...cuter!
December 21, 2010. There’s a lot going on. At 9PM PST on Monday, December 20, 2010, the first full lunar eclipse in three years will begin. At our longitude on the West Coast of North America, we will have one of the best views. At 3 am Tuesday, December 21, 2010 is the exact [...]
I get a lot of good ideas. LOTS OF THEM. There is a term for my type of adeptitiude: SCANNERS. People who are not masters of anything, but are pretty good at almost EVERYTHING. That’s me. My father-in-law pointed it out to me the other day. “You changed your brakes,” he said. “I don’t change [...]