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Archive for January, 2009

Update

Since I normally forget to post on the weekend I thought I’d jump the gun (hope this doesn’t jinx me) . . . Tomorrow will be 30 smoke-free days for me. Thanks to every one for your support and encouragement. I am very proud of myself that i haven’t allowed recent events to [...]

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Happy Birthday Julia!

I wanted to write something profound for you. I am older than you–hell I’m older than nearly everyone–and I feel an obligation to be the wise one, to teach, to be an example. But I can’t do that with you, here it is the morning of your birthday, a profound time in your [...]

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Stairs

Jeff sent me an email with these incredible staircases. I googled to see if I could add to the collection and came up with a blog devoted to the love of stairs. Stair Porn. I am totally geeking out.  I wonder of I could go stair case hunting with my camera.  So exciting.  [...]

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Lasagna Night 2009

For 13 years now in Raleigh some crazy people have held Lasanga Night.  each year it gets bigger and a bit more extravagant.  The stats from last night are not yet in, but I heard from Tim, one of the organizers, that there were about 180 people.  This is my 2nd Lasagna Night.  Last year [...]

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Yearly Oscar List

Academy Award nominations were announced today.  It’s time again for me to list the movies I haven’t yet seen and need to see before the big night.  This year it seems more challenging.  Last year most of them were released on dvd.  So before Sunday, February 22, 2009 I will need to see:
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Curious Case [...]

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iGoogle

Julia wrote about her obsession with iGoogle themes today and that made me think about my iGoogle content.  I remember when the intergoogles were still in their infancy, someone wrote or said that a peek into someone bookmark folder was the new way of checking out the medicine cabinet.  I think iGoogle content is a [...]

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New Year

Yeah so maybe we are into the new year by 12 days already, obvisouly I made no resolutions about being more timely.  I don’t like resolutions so much but there are some things I’d like to try to be more on top of.

be grateful for what I have in my life
take more photographs, especially of [...]

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already failing

I had said that I was going to keep a journal of all the movies I watch in 2009.  Here it is 8 days into 2009 and I can’t even remember all the movies I have watched!  Since coming back from Atlanta I have been down with a really bad cold.  Nothing better to do [...]

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