Archive for May, 2010

31 May

I Found It! After Only 394 Days!

Friends, family, and long-time readers may (or may not) recall my post after the weekend of May 1-3, 2009. You can read about it here. Why would it be remembered at all? Well, it was a fun weekend with two trips to San Francisco (one planned and one not), a great play, an awesome art [...]

26 May

Petra B – Still NED And Loving It

Yesterday was the semi-annual visit to the oncologist for Petra. She is finally finished with the orginal surgeon, the chemo, the radiation oncologist (after five years), and the reconstructive surgeon (after five years), but still sees this one every six months. And no, that is NOT him in the picture. After a discussion of her [...]

25 May

Work: Things I Will Miss – Part 1

George Harrison once wrote a song called “All Things Must Pass”. And so it is true. After a very lengthy career, it turns out that I will be retiring later in the year (and there was much rejoicing!). I am SO looking forward to it, but of course after all these years there are some [...]

17 May

Pictures From The 2010 Indio/LA Trip

Happy day! I posted some pictures from our 2010 trip to Indio (and a little bit of Los Angeles). The bad news: the pictures hardly tell the whole story, not at all. There were so many things we didn’t get pictures of. But the good news: Pictures! You can and should read all about about the [...]

11 May

Have You Read This Book? – Take 9

This book is clever, funny, fast-paced, outrageous, ingeniuous, and just plain fun. Moore has written a slew of books but this is the first one I’ve read. It won’t be the last. In the book, our beta-male hero Charlie Asher all of a sudden finds himself to be, well, Death. Or at least a “merchant of death”. [...]