Last Friday, I took Liam to see Tim Walsh perform a laser show at the Price Senior Center. Liam had seen a flyer advertising the event a month and a half ago at the library, and had been keen to go ever since. Having a certain enthusiasm for such things myself, I decided that would [...]
In A Book-Lover's Idyll, I waxed rhapsodic on libraries and told of a mysterious book that helped to spark my love for them. A few months ago, I was rooting through the racks at Half Price Books and stumbled across the mystery book, apparently in the same edition as the long-lost one I started to [...]
I’ve finally finished up the England Travelogue, filling in the days that I didn’t have time to write about while actually on the trip. If you were following along while we were over there, the new bits are Days 15 & 16, Days 12 & 13, The Wedding Day, and Day 5.
Google has released a new instant messaging/voice chat system, built on Jabber, an open-source standard for such things. I’m fiddling about with it this morning; my username on gmail is SeanMcTex, if anyone feels like saying hello.
This morning on The Big Think, I found a link to the partial text of the new Iraqi Constitution. From the preable: We the people of Iraq, newly arisen from our disasters and looking with confidence to the future through a democratic, federal, republican system, are determined — men and women, old and young — [...]
A little background: My great guy-you’d-use-your-one-call-from-prison-to-phone friend Ross moved to Los Angeles immediately after graduating from the University of Texas in 1992 with an eye toward breaking into the film industry. While zillions of people embark upon this particular adventure, the capricious streets of that city are enough to send most of them home, tail [...]
When school is in session, I generally make a habit of walking Liam and Abigail to school right before heading off to work. This morning, as we rounded the corner into Liam’s hallway, he pulled an index card, carefully folded in half, from his pocket. “Here you go, Dad!” “What is it, buddy?” “It’s for [...]
It’s been a very busy time since we’ve been home; I’m trying to get caught up on everything, but I’m afraid posting here has fallen behind a bit. A few pertinent items: Today was the first day of school for the kids. Emily, Abigail, and Liam, with varying degrees of excitement at the prospect, all [...]
Today Daniel and Fanny are getting married up in Canada. I wish like the dickens that we could be there, but it just wasn’t possible to pull off so closely on the heels of the England trip. Congratulations, you guys! Hope the day is an unmitigated joy. We’ll raise a Shiner in your honor. Today [...]
We’re all home, safe and sound, after a seemingly interminable series of flights, security checks, bag checks, customs, bag rechecks, pressure-induced earaches, sleepy kids, and mediocre in-flight movies. Very glad to be back. Everyone’s winding down now — it’s 2:30am according to our biological clocks!
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