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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 […]

“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 the […]

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 […]

It’s the song of the day (says me)