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Love in the Time of Hernia
Last fall, I went to see my doctor about mildly painful swelling in my groin. As I lay on the table, he said that he didn't feel anything in my lymph nodes. I told him that the swelling was much more pronounced when I stood up, and I showed him. He said, "you have a hernia."
Specifically, I had a bilateral inguinal hernia. They don't routinely ( Read more... ) -
Ski Bums
I've really started to like skiing, and so has my son, so last weekend we went skiing in the Poconos. This was his third day skiing this winter. It was my fifth, which means that I've spent as many days skiing this winter as in the previous forty-mumble years combined.
I had badly wanted to ski that weekend, because it looked like my last ( Read more... ) -
Books Read 2012
- Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters
- Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan's Curse
- George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
- George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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Reconnecting
The weekend that just ended was relatively quiet, involving soccer, cooking, and playdates with the neighbor. But I spent much of the previous weekend continuing to reconnect with my family.
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Life is Change, and Life is Good
The boy is back home from summer camp, and he's brought back some interesting vocabulary, mannerisms, and questions. I'm trying not to be too strict for now, but whenever it comes up, I nonetheless make clear that he's being inappropriate ( Read more... ) -
In Which I Am Not Dead
It's been a long time since my last update, and there's no way I'm going to catch up on everything. The short version is that things are going well: work is good, the kid has been at overnight camp for the past three weeks and is going to be there for four more, and K and I have been able to see a lot of each other ( Read more... ) -
New Horizons
Yesterday morning, I slept in for the first time in, oh, it has to be more than a month. During the week, there's work, of course, and I haven't been able to catch up in the past few weekends. It's hard to sleep in when there's a seven-year-old about, and we had that week in Puerto Rico at the start of the month and a weekend since then. Then there ( Read more... ) -
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation
Composed on an early morning, following a late night:
Velveeta!
Velveeta!
Don't cry for me, O! Wisconsin
Your cheese has become immortal
Despite the lack of
Refrigeration
It kept its freshness
To feed a nation
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Be It Resolved
I have not generally been one for new year's resolutions. My attitude, in essence, was that if you wanted to change your life or yourself, you should just do it without reference to an arbitrary feature of the calendar. But I have recently come to suspect that that attitude was simplistic.
So I'm giving this resolution thing a try. Specifically, I ( Read more... ) -
Books Read 2011
(partial list because I didn't keep track for the first part of the year)
- Solomon Nortrup, Twelve Years a Slave
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
- George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
- Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
- George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings