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Tag Archives: Daily Life Stuff
A Very Public Service Message
Blogging may or may not be interrupted this week, as I may or may not be put in the position of judging someone’s fate. Yes, I’m on call for jury duty. Maybe I can use my long-known racist feelings to … Continue reading
Why I am a horrible father, part XLVI
This week, we’ve started reading Little House in the Big Woods to The Daughter at bedtime. Keeping that in mind, here’s a portion of tonight’s dinner-table conversation: ME: So, are you still reading Little House? THE DAUGHTER: Yup. ME: Ah. … Continue reading
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So much for the great cosmopolitan….
All Buffalonians need to read this Matthew Yglesias post, which I found to be utterly hilarious. (Unintentionally, no doubt — but I was truly tickled at Matthew’s epiphany here. He’s in Chicago now for YearlyKos, but the post has nothing … Continue reading
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Walkability
I’ve seen this walkability test in a number of places, and I finally was able to get my neighborhood’s score: 42 out of 100. Oh well. Of course, this doesn’t imply that there aren’t places to walk. I’ve been walking … Continue reading
Sigh….
I’ve started experimenting lately with the writing of poetry. I’m not willing — yet — to post any of those efforts here, for two reasons: first, I’m not sure what I’m doing, and thus am not at all sure that … Continue reading
Just let ’em work until their heads thud against their desks
Kevin Drum on the American unwillingness to take vacations: Of course, I’m hardly one to talk. In theory, I agree with Ezra [Klein, who has a LA Times op-ed about this], and I would have preferred a job that paid … Continue reading
Where there’s swill, there’s a way
That may be the worst pun I’ve ever used in a blog post title, but anyway, I just happened across a website called Swillparty.com, which turns out to be a Buffalo/WNY site devoted to social wine tasting. Apparently SWILL is … Continue reading
A product recommendation
You know, for all the cat-blogging that gets done in Blogistan, nobody ever discusses the icky side of having the little critters around. So let me toss out this opinion: the eternal battle against kitty odor, this litter used in … Continue reading
But for the Grace of God….
On a whim I bought a copy of the Buffalo News this morning — usually I just skim through the website — and found a story that hit me right in the gut, about a family that is currently undergoing … Continue reading
An Update.
Two weeks ago today, The Wife entered the hospital as described here. She is still there, despite the initial prognosis that she would lose the baby within 24 hours of her admission. We are now about seventeen days shy of … Continue reading