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This is DOUG’s house. He bought it for he and his mom and now he owns it outright. It’s an awesome old farmhouse on Naples luxurious lower East Side. DOUG’s mom had a massive stroke a few years back, and DOUG took complete care of her until the very bitter end. This was a full [...]

Filed under: General Observations on March 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I know this is a little bit late, but I’ve been behind in my reading. This is a gem from my favorite local muckraker and guest blogger Lappe Parrish. Is Leap Day more significant than most people tend to acknowledge? What exactly does “any day” to the calendar do to our intrinsic sense of time? [...]

Filed under: EWAKI, Lappe Parish on March 25th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Earlier this week before my surgery one of my last two-handed tasks was to make a very crude map of our small plot of land. This is the time of year when we need to order food bearing trees to plant throughout the yard. But before we ordered trees, we had to have a good [...]

Filed under: EWAKI, Food on March 20th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

So on Monday I had my operation. This is the 1st St. Patrick’s Day in many St. Patrick’s days that I’ve spent more sedated than most of the people hanging out at the bars. I had three different levels of sedation for the operation and decided when I got home that I would wait for [...]

Filed under: General Observations on March 20th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Tomorrow I get surgery on my shoulder. Last week I tied up as many loose ends as possible at work, and tried to tie up a few at home. I’m going to be out of work for six weeks, mostly because I won’t be able to drive. I’m not so much freaked out about the [...]

Filed under: General Observations on March 16th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I think Fox has reached the point with me where whatever Fox wants me to do or wants me to think, I think the exact opposite. If you can subtract the shameless jingoism inherent in these news clips, you have millions of reasons to vote for Obama.

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on March 15th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Elliott, man, you played a fine guitar And some dirty basketball The songs you wrote Got me through a lot Just wanna tell you that But it’s too late It’s too late No, don’t you know it’s been too late for a long time Oh no Things were looking up Least that’s what I heard [...]

Filed under: General Observations on March 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I heard Elliot Spitzer speak for the first time when I was at a teacher’s conference in Albany a couple years ago. I heard him talk about his experience bringing down the monsters in Wall Street. He gave a little lesson in history, and how his hero was Teddy Roosevelt because TR was willing to [...]

Filed under: History, Politics on March 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments »