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One of my new, unfortunate hobbies is watching television. First off, I now officially own a television. Sorta. Last year for New Year’s Even, I asked my brother to bring a television so we could watch the ball drop. We never got the TV to work, and we never watched the ball drop, but the […]

Two things.  First, congratulations to Pete and Katy for winning Tracy‘s first (annual?) virtual pumpkin carving contest.   To be clear, the contest is virtual, not the pumpking carving.  Perhaps it should be called a “Pumpkin Carving Virtual Contest”?  The pictures are pretty good, though I think Katy’s pumpkin, which is the skull face, looks better […]

Andrew Sullivan recently published an essay on the Obama candidacy in the Atlantic.  I support Obama, and I’ve always had a difficult time explaining why, even though it seems to me such an obvious choice.  Sullivan, I think, has helped me understand why I face that dilemma.  Policy-wise, there’s not a whole lot different from […]

The 2007 Weblog Awards have begun.  Obviously, that’s not something thats very important to me, but three of my favorite blogs are up for it. First, the Moderate Voice is a (mostly) political group blog.  It’s really grown a lot in the last couple years since my sister first turned me on to it.  It’s […]

This is the first installment of what is likely going to be a non-existent series of posts with my stellar t-shirt ideas. Don’t try to steal this.

So it looks like Sara will be staying with me for one more week. We’ve found a pretty good prospective adopter for her. She’ll come over on Monday and see how they get along, and if all goes well will come back on Friday to pick her up and take her to her forever home. […]