Literal Barrage

I - get ready - managed to listen to The World on NPR this evening without yelling. Amazing, I know.
Firstly, they ran a series of stories on the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of Sudan and they managed to point out that it's Arab African militia killing/displacing black African civilians. They [...]

I went to the dentist this morning to get my final round of root canal-related tooth fun and heard the words that you never want to hear from your plummer, mechanic or dentist: "You don't have some place you need to be any time soon, do ya?"
Turned out to be no big deal. They [...]

Updated the site to Wordpress 1.2 - it's very nice, backend-wise. You probably won't see any impact on the viewing side of things (except for a slight speedup) until I get more plugins/geegaws/wizzbangs installed.
*grin*

I'm pissed. There's no other words to describe how I feel.
As I was watching CNN Headline News at lunch today, those ghouls decided it would be a good idea to run footage of the U.S. soldiers killed in Ramahdi this morning. There they lay, still, dead and bloodied. I had [...]

There's a gent at work by the name of P. Rosenfeld (name foreshortened to protect the innocent) who tends to have an odd outlook on life but whose company I wouldn't trade for much of anything. He's one of the crew with whom I walk before lunch each day and he can always be [...]

It's been a full week since I last posted and I think it's high time I finally update the site.
Things have been busy. My cousin's wedding went well - the ceremony was beautiful and they had weather to match. It was fun, yet extremely draining for those few days. Six hours on [...]

So here's what's going on:
We've been busy, very busy. My cousin is getting married this Saturday, so we're headed out to Titusville, PA tomorrow (no posting 'til Sunday, that means). I've been having bouts of insomnia ("What better time to post?" says you. "You don't want to see my insomniac ramblings" says [...]