Category: politics

From the greek “poly” meaning “many”, and “tics” meaning “blood sucking creatures”

I have had a reinforced revalation…

The right-wing wing-nuts lie.

So, Grace gave me a call yesterday morning.  Actually, two calls, since the first one came while I was in the shower…

Grandma and Grandpa Albertson took her to the coast for one day, leaving early Sunday morning, and coming back this afternoon.  Man, was that an excited voicemail!

Daddy J! Daddy J!  We’re going to the coast!  Call me back!

After my best moment of parenting ever, we all know how much she likes the ocean.  It’s not changed — it’s still her favorite place to go.  Yet, when she came back, my timing was impeccable.  I followed the in-laws to their driveway, and she practically leapt into my arms getting out of their car.

We come home, and before she gets back on the scooter (see the gallery!) she has to give Daddy Cy a hug and a kiss.

We have breakfast for dinner.  She eats all the eggs I can stand to make for her in one meal (4, for those of you who count, over easy), sausages, pancakes, and two bowls of fruity pebbles.

Then, all through her bath (what, sand in the sheets?  No way!) she is shrieking with delight.  She gets out and dries off, brushes her teeth, and I braid her hair.  Daddy Cy reads to her until she falls asleep, and that’s when it occurs to me:

We are truly loved.  More than Grandma and Grandpa, more than the coast.  More than riding the scooter.  All the things that are tops in her life?  We top that.

This is what we work so hard for.  This is better than we ever hoped for.

And the right-wing anti-gay pundits lie.  She has what we need, we have what she needs.  Love abounds, and we are all cared for.

Nothing is truly missing.

Still more catchup blogging

Geeky things:

Lots of film links this time:

What a surprise — some political links right before the inauguration:

Golf and parenting to together in my world:

Time to catch up the 2blog folder…

Happy new year!

As usual, things overheard start us off

Geeky links:

Political things:

Parenting and golf go together in my book:

Funny things:

2 days of catchup blogging

I’m getting quicker at keeping up, eh?

Geeky links:

Funny things:

And Dave Barry’s holiday gift guide is out:

Catchup blogging again…

Been too busy to check on things overheard, so let’s start with geeky links:

Lots of golf links this month:

Political things:

Funny things:

Much delayed catchup blogging…

As usual, starting with things overheard:

Many, many geeky links to catch up on:

Family/golf things:

Political links (yes, overdue):

Purely entertaining:

A corny neologism…

So, I’m watching Grace at recess before computer lab, and the trees are dropping acorns.  I was about to point out to her that the acorns are baby trees, but that’s not entirely accurate.  The are more tree fetuses.  Treetuses, if you will.

And, the kids over there stomping on acorns?  They are performing acortions.

Work has been busy, lots of 2blog folder catching up to do…

As usual, starting with things overheard:

Plenty of geeky things (lots of these also fit into other categories):

Parenting things:

Golf things:

Politics/Secularism:

Just funny:

And one film link:

Catching up more often…

Fewer overheard links (I’ve been busy!):

Lots of geeky things, however:

Political things:

A few things about being gay and parenting:

And some just about being Grace’s daddy:

And some generally funny or interesting things:

Time to make the 2blog folder catchup post…

As usual, starting with all things overheard:

For geeky things, I’m going to start off with some privacy links (to opt-out of tracking for advertising cookies):

And the rest of the geek links:

Political things:

Some parenting links:

Some things just for Cy:

And just plain interesting:

catchup blogging, again

Things overheard:

Geeky links:

Political things:

Interesting/funny/parenting and golf things:

That last one makes my first idea for Grace’s name (Entropy) seem positively mundane.  Right?

Time for catchup blogging!

As is my custom, we begin with things overheard:

And since we’ve been travelling waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much, here are some beach sites:

Geeky things:

Political things:

Funny things:

And finally, parenting:

Time to empty the 2blog folder

For those who care, I have really, *really* short names for my bookmarks toolbar folders — for instance, my leftmost folder, which contains links that I visit daily, is labelled simply ‘1’.  I use foxmarks to keep my bookmarks synchronized between all my browsers, and I use the “Add Bookmark Here2” plugin to just add pages to that 2blog folder when I come across a page I want to share later.

Then, once it gets overwhelmingly large, I just copy the links from that folder to a post.

As usual I start with things overheard:

Geeky things:

Political things:

Just generally interesting: