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 […]
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The news I dreaded, but had begun to believe we’d be spared, for at least another year, has been announced: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has resigned. I feel like I’ve been punched in the gut.
Just 20 months ago I replaced the heat pump in my condo, to the tune of over $4,000. The original had lasted over twenty years, but finally had given up the ghost. Yesterday evening, then, it was a shock when Jeff and I arrived home to find the temperature inside a muggy 79 degrees, the […]
is, of course, 42, as anyone familiar with Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series knows. It’s a nice coincidence that I was 42 when the film version of Hitchhiker was released this year. It’s a number I’ve been seeing fairly often, recently, and indeed I had started to draft this entry back […]
Saturday night, I dreamed that my mom bought me a car that was simultaneously a digital camera. When first describing the dream to Jeff, I couldn’t recall if the car actually shrank to the size of a portable camera, or if the camera detached from the car. As I’ve continued to recall details from the […]
Yesterday afternoon, Jeff and I drove over to Ballston (in North Arlington, just a couple miles away) for the Signature Theatre’s free summer concert, “Signature Sings Broadway in Ballston.” We think of Signature as “our” theater; it’s physically located in Arlington County, as opposed to downtown in the District, and we’ve seen a number of […]
elfintech posted a photo: Last Sunday was my aunt and uncle’s 50th wedding anniversary; Jeff and I were home visiting, because it was also the day before my mom’s 62nd birthday (and the first Father’s Day since my grandfather died, and only the second since my father died). [ geotagged: see this photo’s location on […]
elfintech posted a photo: the striatic on the far right, along with the background, is the original photo; as he was talking, I took two other shots from the same spot, and then cut him out of those and superimposed them next to himself in the original. [ geotagged: see this photo’s location on a […]
Many opponents of gay marriage are not just against the marriage part, but have an absolute “conviction that homosexuality is a sin, is immoral, harms children and spreads disease”; they have no patience for those who seek even “tolerance”. Via del.icio.us/elfintech