This morning I had an appointment for a physical–I’ll write more about the overall examination, and my feelings about a doctor’s visit last month, separately–during which my doctor recommended that I be revaccinated for tetanus and vaccinated for Hepatitis A and B. We also agreed upon some laboratory work for which blood would be needed. […]
James Doohan, well-loved and best-known as Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in the original Star Trek series, died early this morning of pneumonia and Alzheimer’s Disease, at age 85. When I heard the news, I thought of the scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, when Scotty is playing “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes after […]
Well, at just 50, former Fox Television attorney John Roberts can’t be considered old, more’s the pity, but he’s certainly got the rest of “yet another old white guy” covered. It’s not like there was going to be good news from the president’s announcement tonight, and I guess it could have been worse. But his […]
People tend to complain about Verizon, but I have to admit that I’ve been pretty happy with their services. Among the multiple wireless providers I’ve tried, for example, Verizon is hands-down the best for me; neither Sprint nor AT&T were able to get a signal into several of the buildings in which I’ve worked, but […]
Off-and-on throughout the weekend I wasn’t feeling quite up to snuff, suffering from a mild fever and general malaise. Unfortunately, I had committed to doing a fair amount of work over the weekend on a project with a tight deadline; I ended up putting in about 13 extra hours over the weekend (along with about […]
While several of my friends are braving the heavy thunderstorms in the area as they make their way to local bookstores at midnight, I just got the following email: Greetings from Amazon.com. We thought you’d like to know that we shipped your items today, and that this completes your order. Thanks for shopping at Amazon.com, […]
There have been a few recent changes to the blog. If you’re reading this via any of the RSS or Atom feeds, you’ll already have seen the new Feedburner feed I’m using. That new feed includes the blog entry text, along with spliced-in photos from my Flickr account and quicklinks from my del.icio.us account, for […]
Since my last posting, Jeff and I have seen two plays: Red, White and Tuna last Thursday in the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater and Signature Theatre’s Sunday night closing performance of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures. We almost couldn’t have picked too more different shows. Red, White and Tuna is part of the Tuna series of […]
My lack of the flag-waving gene notwithstanding, yesterday evening we had our own little Independence Day dinner–open-faced chicken barbecue sandwiches with onions and cole slaw, french fries, and salad–and then went out to watch the fireworks. I have to admit to some grousing about the latter, since I didn’t really want to go, but it […]