That, apparently was the one-word response of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs this morning. In his first term in his first year in office, President Obama has been awarded The Nobel Peace Prize. I’m clearly not the only one who’s kind of surprised by this; the President himself, by the look of him on the television […]
Yeah, I know, Banned Books Week was last week, but consider it read that I’m just running a little late. That, and I didn’t have anything particularly interesting to post about it until today, when I found this, a letter from a librarian to a library patron who challenged the inclusion of a book called […]
Since Netflix put the newly-remastered version of The Wizard of Oz up for free streaming for 24 hours over the weekend, we added it to the Roku and watched it on Saturday morning. It was the first time I’d seen it in probably 20 years, having previously seen it only on broadcast TV when somebody […]
The week’s been mostly a blur; lots of kid taxi duty, review sessions on training materials for software that hasn’t even made it through preliminary build yet, homework assistance, funeral services, making a nuisance of myself to certain financial institutions, and planning for weekend projects. I’ve honestly been losing track of what day it was […]
