I saw my first Yale basketball game today. JD is into bball, and the Columbia Women's team had a rare Sunday afternoon game... so we went. Yale won; JD was rooting for Columbia; I was of mixed emotions. On the one hand, I never rooted for Yale athletics while I was a graduate student, so why should I start now. On the other hand, it's not like ( Read more... )

Last Sunday, JD and I were at the supermarket picking up a few things.

JD: "Dad, can we get brussel sprouts? Pleaaaase???"
Goljerp: *Sigh* "OK, I guess so."

JD may be a picky eater sometimes, but he does have good taste. :-)

Yesterday JD and I had a pretty good day. It was atypical, so I think I'm going to write about it ( Read more... )

First of all, happy Rosh Hashannah to all those who celebrate it ( Read more... )

Finished Lawrence Watt-Evans, T.H. White, and Roger Zelazny. I have lots of Mr. Watt-Evan's books, mostly in paperback, and so I took the opportunity to read 'em all again. That was fun. I only have one book of T.H. White's, _The Once and Future King_, although on this re-read (as is often my habit), I stopped at the end of _The Sword in the ( Read more... )

Summer of Shakespeare? Well, for JD, at least, it has been ( Read more... )

Finished Pratchett, Spider Robinson, Rowling, C. Stross, L. Snickett, and Jo Walton ( Read more... )

For JD's birthday this year, we had a small celebration -- just the three of us (JD, Joy, and me). Then we went to watch the world cup finals. We decided that we were all rooting for Argentina (JD because they beat the team that beat the US, I think; me because I thought they deserved a drubbing after beating Brazil 7-1, and Joy... I'm not sure ( Read more... )

For a while, now, I've been saying that I wanted to get away with Joy and JD this summer for a trip which would not be a "visit family and friends" trip. Not that there's anything wrong with visiting family and friends, of course, but I thought it would be nice to just go someplace new (at least for JD). At first I was thinking of the great ( Read more... )

JD and I visited some friends of mine from college on Sunday, and had a very nice time. Something interesting which I noticed was this: there were 3 girls there who were around 12/13. (Two other families were visiting; one I knew; one I didn't.) The three 12-ish girls had the same names as JD's 3 cousins on Joy's side (who are 12, 11, and 10).