Category Archives: Personal Journal

Not only did our idiot vice-president shoot his hunting companion, HE WAS POACHING!

Michelle Kwan. The most beautiful skater ever. Too bad we won’t get to see her skate this year. Is this the first Olympics that luge sliders are wearing booties with separate toes? Isn’t that cute? They should dye them different … Continue reading →

Liked the cross country pursuit today and the ski jumping. I would like to try jumping someday. Kind of like flying. I like that NBC is showing sports with no Americans in them. Ok, so maybe this is the first … Continue reading →

I was hiking most of the day today, but I did watch a little Women’s Hockey during breakfast (Sweden x Russia, the fifteen minutes I saw looked like late-night intramurals at Cornell…). Came home and saw a little more while … Continue reading →

A lawyer friend of mine defended a guy last year who has a farm in upstate New York. Some rich folks from the city built a big house next to his and then tried to get his farm shut down. … Continue reading →

Leda left for six weeks in Brazil yesterday, and she took our baby with her! I miss ’em already I was expecting to wake up at night in a panic about where the baby was (my dad reports frequent such … Continue reading →

Here’s a teaser headline from today’s Los Angeles Times that I had to read several times: O.C. Animal Shelter Official is Arrested The supervisor is accused of having sex with female inmates who were there to shave time off their … Continue reading →

Just in the last week, J.O. can push himself up a little bit when on his belly, hold his head upright when held sitting or upright, suck his fingers like crazy, sort of howl along when I sing to him, … Continue reading →

I set an alarm to rouse me from a nap to watch The Simpsons tonight, only to make the rude discovery that the show was preëmpted by that overwrought, overacted, and totally underwhelming (we agreed to tape a couple of … Continue reading →

The last couple of days, Oliver has been smiling a lot at all of us (my Dad is visiting at the moment). As of today he has also developed wet tears to go with his increasingly common crying. His early … Continue reading →