note: chuck is typing left handed; please be patient and forgiving! Surgery seems to have gone well; a couple of screws, no apparent complications.  Anesthesia didn’t have me throwing up, but has been hell on the sinuses (but then my sinuses are always sort of hellish, so no real change there).  There’s some pain, but […]

The last thing I expected to witness this weekend was a brutal murder. While out taking care of the shopping and whatnot Saturday afternoon (this trip involved trying to find baklava for Mary’s “Wednesday afternoon, we dine…In Hell!” greek festival at school this week), I popped into one of the local pet shops as I […]

blah blah mp3 player, blah blah post… “european swallow” – the refreshments “ironic (live)” – Alanis Morrissette “as long as I’m singin’” – the brian setzer orchestra “red dirt girl” – emmylou harris “everything had changed” – barenaked ladies “the statue got me high” – they might be giants “eruption” – van halen “big tall […]

okay, Nana, you were asking for pictures of the baby; here’s the little eight and a half pounder (according to the pediatrician today) in her little pink penguin outfit: Six weeks old and already evangelizing for the open source community. And look, I’m typing with eight fingers – diagnosis change on the arm; might have […]

My last post ended singing the praises of the live-action Japanese Spider-Man tv show. I believe I mentioned the machine gun guitar cowboy? And didn’t post a link to this wonder of 70s television? Well, click here. With that bit of business out of the way… Not sure how I feel about the week…when I […]

Happy Birthday, Mike! This has been another blog-post-in-lieu-of-birthday-card from me.

With this week begun, I’m easing myself back into the daily work grind; not that I’m actually in the office (that’s next week), rather, I’m taking the third week of my training for work at another of the fine hotels just the other side of I-95. This week, we’re actually slumming it deep within the […]

I know I already posted once today, but I thought this bit of info was worth a mention. We had Catherine to the pediatrician again for another weight check. In the last week, the kid picked up a whopping 10 ounces, tipping the scales at a robust six pounds, five ounces, which puts her well […]

Well, getting the kids on the bus for the first day of school went reasonably well (well, I couldn’t find the bus stop, but the rest of them knew where it was, so we were okay). Nothing to report yet, we just dropped them off. Of course, we do have awkwardly posed pictures of little […]

Today is Friday of my first week of paternity leave completely “off”. Besides all the normal baby stuff, the list of things knocked off the “to do” list is not insignificant. As I type this, I’ve just finished spending two or three hours contorting myself into a small space and rapping my knuckles repeatedly, in […]