..."Let there be light ( Read more... )

As of this past Sunday (yes, Easter Sunday!) we have a new family member.


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I took a tumble last weekend walking out the back door. I was busy looking up at the WWII airplanes flying over, not down at my feet, and I missed the step down from the house to the back yard. I didn't fall all the way to the ground, but I caught myself in a deep squat. Which strained my knees nicely, and started them swelling again ( Read more... )

Just had knee surgery earlier today. Both knees! Lost a few hours to drugs, but those were hours I am happy to not remember ( Read more... )

Last night, most of the regulars were not available. Dante showed up--but neither one of us had any games with us! What do you do in that case?

Easy--dig out the iPad and download Smallworld! (He had been thinking about buying the game for a while now, anyway.) So we played a game we are familiar with, in a form that is not familiar to us ( Read more... )

And back for another installment in the irregularly-updated "Dave's Thursday night game reports".  This week, as reported on a Monday.

There were four of this time, Dante, Chien, John, and myself. We played La Citta.

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I've been listening to some of my old music again lately.  Including "One Step Beyond" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkOOCx8tT08 by Madness.

And I'm still astonished that my "80s dancing" partners had never heard of it.  (I'm looking at you, desdenova , merhawk , mice .)  It was a pretty big part, relatively speaking, of 80s music for me.  One of the most compelling ( Read more... )

In some instances, keys are very symbolic objects. Especially when buying a residence. When the loan funds, and the paperwork is done, and the transfer of ownership is official, the new owners finally receive a set of keys to their new place.

We got our keys yesterday.

We're moving to Sunnyvale. To a place with a TWO CAR garage. :)

I'm glad that (parts of) DOMA were struck down, and that Prop 8 was not upheld.

I'm much less glad that the decisions weren't simply that giving someone else rights that you already have does not diminish your rights in any way...

I went to a party along with Chris and Paul, two guys I lived with a bit over 20 years ago. Chris was the one who died two years back. We were still living together in the dream ( Read more... )