Month: August 2004

  • Julia Child Died =(

    I just sat down to check my email and Tom’s flight status and I read that Julia Child died! Check out her obituary . I do love how real she was in the kitchen. It was very interesting to read about her life, and her motivation for learning to cook… even though all of the […]

  • Holding down the fort

    Here we go again! Another business trip. Last night, at about two in the morning, we had a bat in our house. Tom was showering and I went downstairs to lock everything down for the night. As I got to the foot of our stairs, this large bat dive-bombed my head. I SCREAMED! Heh. I […]

  • She Was Alive?

    Have you ever heard about the death of some really old celebrity and the first thought the pops into your head is, “She was still alive?” Fay Wray died this week at the age of 96, 71 years after she was abducted by King Kong. From the point of view of cinematic history, that movie […]

  • Short Notice

    Well, I found out today that one of the guys who was supposed to be leaving for Australia today ran into snags getting his visa, and needed a quick replacement. The environment lead (my group) came over to my cube today and asked whether I could leave… um… Thursday. Of course, I needed to call […]

  • Confidentiality?

    PittsburghLIVE.com has a story about an obscure but amazing law in Pennsylvania. Apparently, doctors in Pennsylvania are required to notify the PA Department of Transportation if they have a patient that has been diagnosed with a condition that could impair his ability to drive. Despite everything you may have assumed about doctor-patient confidentiality, if a […]

  • I Hate Verizon

    I hate Verizon with a passion. It amazes me that a company would deliver technology like DSL right to my door, and then put a lock on it so I can’t use it for what I want unless I pay them more money. Verizon blocks port 80 inbound. I’m sure they have some BS security […]

  • Prozac in the Water

    Boing Boing has a link to a BBC story describing that the Brits are consuming and… er… expelling such large amounts of Prozac, that the water tests are beginning to detect traces of the medication. Apparently, enough is being released into the wastewater, that these traces are making it all the way back into their […]

  • Sick Kids; Sick Parents

    Aiden woke up yesterday with a runny nose, and as Sarah and I feared, more of the kids woke up with the sniffles this morning. There’s been a rather sudden drop in temperature from the high 80’s last week, to just barely 60 this week, and I think that change brought with it the runny […]

  • The Shipwrecked Presbyterian

    Doug Wilson has posted a quaint little story on his blog. Although, as one person observed, it wouldn’t be a very good presbytery with only one church.

  • Friends in the Church

    Ray Doreian stopped by today to see how Sarah and I were doing, and to pray with us. I appreciate that he took the time out to talk to us, instead of judging from afar. It amazes me how people can claim that they’re doing whatever it is they’re doing for your own good, but […]

  • New Weblog

    Due to the pain caused by losing a month of weblog entries, I’ve decided to switch to a more… robust weblog. I’ve heard good things about WordPress, so this may be fun. I may consider putting this as the front page to our website, since we were really only using postnuke for the journal and […]

  • Lost Journal Entries

    We attempted an upgrade of the journal module of our website and we accidently saved the wrong file instead of the old journal entries. Anyways… rather than wiping out my whole journal and starting from scratch — something I thought of — I’ll just start here…. LATER….kinda in the middle of the Saturday morning routine […]