I had the best weekend! We took a trip to Indy to see the King Tut exhibit at the Indianapolis Children's Museum, spent some quality time with the dinosaurs and gazed in wide eyed wonder at the Dale Chilhuly in the atrium. Nan and Sophia were in awe, particularly of Akhnaten's massive stone portrait and the jewelry (because they are my daughters). ( Read more... )

I rarely get emotional about the deaths of celebrities, but there are exceptions.  Walter Cronkite was an institution of a different sort.

Return of the Power Tie!

It seems that The Men In Black have used that Mind Eraser Zap Thing on Wall St, or maybe the good people at Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley just regained consciousness after a two year bender and think it's The Year 2000 All Over Again!

From Bloomberg:

Morgan Stanley plans to repackage a downgraded collateralized debt obligation ( Read more... )

Right now, we're watching the latest  "righteous uprising" in Iran. It would be awfully nice if they could find themselves in free society, unloosed from  the iron bonds of religion and the horrors it breeds. You know, kind of like the one they threw out 30 years ago.

It's a nice dream. I have that dream for my own nation, now that I think of it. I ( Read more... )

I come home at whatever hour and think, "Oooh, I should update LJ!" and then I put on PJs and the next thing I know, I'm asleep. There's not much going on except:

Mr. Skyline has the most expensive hoodie you could imagine.  He has a few local offers and is leaning toward Children's Hospital, and a few out of the region, one of which is back in ( Read more... )

To most of you this will mean nothing. To the few, Gavin Rossdale's on Jay Leno tonight.
/end transmission

I can't help but empathize a wee bit

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The Wee-est Skyline is home from the hospital. The stitches behind her ear are making her cranky, but we had a good "David After The Dentist" moment in recovery.

There are a few of you I'm hoping to catch online, maybe late tomorrow or over the weekend. I know weekends are a bad time for that, but right now it's about all I have!

All that fire in your heart and declarations of loyalty  and you still ended up just like your daddy.  I wish I could be there when you realize it, but one time around was enough.