We’re here in NYC. Originally scheduled for a 9:00 Peter Pan bus, we got to the bus station at 8, and were able to use our tickets for seats on a Greyhound that was just leaving, so we ended up in the city an hour early. We checked in at the hotel (though we had […]

Today really sucked. In what frustratingly looks like a pattern of suckiness–at least workwise–today ranked right up there near the top. If the year were a college of suck, today would be graduating summa cum laude. I had a phone conversation with one of those stereotypical foreign service junior officers scrambling for tenure, trying to […]

I first saw a question about this on another blog, though I can’t remember where. Then today Commissioner Moose, who also works for a government agency, brought it up as well. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency, the primary mission of which “is to safeguard the merit […]

OK, gay Republicans, the gauntlet has been thrown… your man has decided that “if necessary” means “now.” The press is reporting this morning that Bush has decided to endorse a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. So what are you going to do now, Log Cabin? That “seat at the table” you kept crowing about turns […]

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This morning, I cancelled my subscription to audblog. They only bill every three months, so I tend to forget about them until I’m surprised by a PayPal receipt, one of which came last week. Granted, it’s only $3/month, but my last audio post was in October and I’ve only posted a half dozen altogether, while […]

Jeff and I are counting down the days until our four-day Valentine’s/Presidents’ Day weekend in New York City. Five days from now we’ll be sitting just two rows away from the stage at the Rufus Wainwright concert, Saturday afternoon we’ll get Wicked with Kristin Chenoweth and Idine Menzel, and Sunday evening we’ll visit the monsters, […]

Thanks for nothing, John Kerry. The Boston Globe reported today that the current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president yesterday “vowed yesterday to fight back against Republicans seeking to tie him to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision allowing same-sex couples to marry, and did not rule out supporting a state constitutional amendment […]

And if the news about the car weren’t exciting enough, when our server brought our bread and butter at CPK this evening, there was an even number of slices on the plate. My observations in the past had led me to a hypothesis that restaurant policy is to provide only (n×2)-1 slices where n = […]

When I got home from work this afternoon, before I went to pick Jeff up at the Metro I called my mother to see how she’s doing. After we chatted about some other things, she asked whether I’d heard anything about my car, so I told her about Jay having gotten a Prius just last […]