A part of me naturally is exultant at today’s 4-3 decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court striking down a state ban on same-sex marriages [link is to the Washington Post article], ruling that the right to marry includes “the right to marry the person of one’s choice,” and requiring the state legislature to take steps […]
Add one more big item to the list of things that need to be replaced: in addition to the refrigerator and computer monitor replaced last year, the dishwasher still waiting to be replaced, and the heat pump and car due to be replaced in the next few weeks, my 40″ Toshiba widescreen television has been […]
When I got home from work late this evening, tired and frustrated and feeling sorry for myself, I found three packages waiting for me: two from the loan agent, one of which included a check for the cash I took out with my refinance, and a box from Amazon.com. The first two certainly were welcome, […]
When I first got this job at the Department of State, people kept telling me that the State Department was a great agency for which to work, and that the Foreign Service Institute was the best bureau within the agency. And I felt a certain sense of homecoming, given that my first real-world job was […]
Neither Jeff nor I have said anything explictly online about this until now (he isn’t typically as personal in his own journal as I tend to be here), but you can probably read between the lines. He and I had begun discussing the prospect of moving in together some time ago and, although we’ve taken […]
Federal agencies are closed today for the Veteran’s Day holiday, so I have the day off. It’s the largest chunk of uninterrupted time I’ve had to myself since before my father died, really since he went back into the hospital in early September. Since then, I’ve been at work, with my family, or here with […]
For a while, I’d been telling Jeff that I had been thinking about maintaining a list of GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, homosexual, transgender, queer, etc.) folk in the DC metro area (DC; Northern Virginia, including so far Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Herndon, Montclair, Vienna, Woodbridge; Maryland, including so far Baltimore, Gaithersburg, Hyattsville, Laurel, Silver Spring, Upper […]
Ok, I admit it. I’m technologically and culturally spoiled. I like my conveniences and my gadgets. Today I rented a compact car from Enterprise to come visit my mom, and I got a Ford Escort. It has no cruise control, no CD player, and the mirrors and windows are manually controlled. The engine is loud […]
I’m becoming obsessed, as is often my wont, with the Prius. I visit the Prius website almost daily, scour the news for articles, google the web for mentions in other blogs and online sources, carry around my printed brochure, etc. Today, for example, Gizmodo (one of my regular reads, linked from the “interesting & cool” […]
A little past 1:00 this afternoon, the lawyer/notary public arrived at my condo building. About 20 minutes later, he handed me the last piece of paper for my signature, from the two large stacks with which we’d begun, and I commented on how easy it was–and almost scarily so–to recommit myself to owing such a […]