At Seth’s request, here’s a photo of the drum that Jeff & Karen brought from Africa for me. (Small child included for scale.)
Jeff and Karen Adams and their delightful brood of children arrived in Texas last night for two weeks of work and visiting. As Karen is Kathy’s sister, and Jeff an old college buddy of mine, we’ve been quite looking forward to their arrival for some time. The cousins were all hyper-excited to see each other, [...]
I’ve added a couple new items to the “Do Some Good” sidebar:
The Fight Aids link goes to the World Community Grid, a distributed computing effort that allows you to donate your unused computer time to a couple of giant research projects, among them an effort to find more effective protease inhibitors to deal with HIV. [...]
Back when Abigail was still of the appropriate age to sit in a high chair, we had stopped at El Chico on the way from Denton to San Antonio. As a red-blooded Mexican food loving Texan, I was delighted when I looked over to see Abigail diligently dipping her chips in salsa before wolfing them [...]
After Kathy left for her sinus surgery this morning, the kids and I left for the University with a pile of orange paper in hand. We found the highest places we could get to and made and launched paper airplanes and helicopters for about 90 minutes.
Upon our return, we got a call from the ENT [...]
Kathy’s home and sleeping fairly comfortably now. We’ve got some antibiotics and pain meds for her, and the surgery center staff warned me that any documents she signs in the next 24 hours aren’t legally binding — another nefarious scheme foiled!
Thanks to Mary, Chris, John, Lori, Ginger, Debbie, Pam, and all the other folks who [...]
I’m overdue to do an update, but since this is officially Spring Break — though the University doesn’t see fit to actually give us any off time, instead asking us politely “won’t you please take some vacation time so that we can turn the lights off and save some electricity?” — I’m not at my [...]
Fellow Stupid Guy Daniel has his chapbook Dead Man available for preorders. (A chapbook is “a short book of not much more than 20-25 pages, generally poetry, printed in short runs,” according to Daniel.)
While I generally have little patience for poetry, especially the maudlin self-indulgent sort of pap I write, Daniel’s stuff is lucid, meaty, [...]
This past weekend marked Stupid Guy Trip IV, the latest in an ongoing series of male bonding excursions started in 2001 with a trip to Las Vegas. This year’s destination: Seattle. In attendance were Mike Brack, Chris, Daniel, Ben, Ross and me.
The trip was too full and fun to really do justice without writing more [...]
If Barry and David can do odd things with their hair, them by golly, so can I.
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