28 Nov
My parents watch a lot of movies when tv gets slow. Generally you never knoww hat you’re going to get to see when you visit. Often it’s something I never knew existed and sometimes that thing is good and sometimes it’s pretty bad. This time it was Save the Last Dance 2. I thought it [...]
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27 Nov
“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”
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26 Nov
Before Nicole and I went down to my parent’s house for the Thanksgiving weekend I weighed 199.6. My goal by the end of the weekend was just to not have crossed over 201 but I didn’t think it was a realistic goal.
We arrived Wednesday night and had tri-tip and potato kugel. After 4 helpings of [...]
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26 Nov
Stuff Happens is a history play by David Hare that looks at the very recent history of the Bush administration’s path to engagement in Iraq. A lot of it is made up of actual quotes and conversations that members of the administration have had and it’s filled in with reasonable conjecture. It’s a quick read [...]
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21 Nov
I finally saw The Producers (2005 version) and after a rocky start where Bialystock and Bloom meet I think it works out really well. That was my least favorite part of the original movie too but I think it worked a little better there. I liked the expanded role for Ulla and the places where [...]
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21 Nov
Grover had his checkup with the oncologist this morning. After feeling around the doctor said it all felt good and the radiated area looked good. So next checkup is in a month, then 6 weeks, then a few at every other month and then every three months. He didn’t say after that but I’d imagine [...]
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17 Nov
Grover has finished all his radiation therapy and he didn’t get sick at all during it. He did seems a little uncomfortable for a few days but for the most part he was fine. And the groggy dog routine was always funny after a treatment. They painted a target on him that they had to [...]
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17 Nov
I think it was second or third grade when we made these at the Jewish Community Center.
We all started out with blocks of wood and a smaller sheet of wood to cut the arrow out of. I recall the group leaders drilling all the holes but they were perfectly fine with us handling [...]
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17 Nov
The collactables are gone or soon to be gone but I took pictures to remember them by.
You can see them here when you scroll down to my first name tag. And after that, some pictures of t-shirts. Two of them are from the Cowell Coffee Shop, there’s the Orbital Mind Control Lasers from KarlB and [...]
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15 Nov
It’s the song of the day (says me)
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