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R.I.P. Tom Snyder

I’m still behind in the news and discovered during a meeting that I just attended that Tom Snyder has died. I used to watch his late, late night show and always thought he was terrific. I think that Harlan Ellison appeared as a guest on his show more times than anyone else. Over at the [...]

2,000 posts!

My earlier post about Zeke this morning turned out to be my 2,000th Live Journal post. You know me. I like counting things.

In the department of more great Churchill quotes

UPDATE: Just ignore me. As kevnyc points out in his comment, I’m just being repetitive. I remembered this this morning from one of my bus tours of London: Nancy Astor: Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband I’d poison your coffee! Winston Churchill: Ms. Astor, if I was your husband I’d drink it! What I [...]

Reading

This is by far my worst reading-year since I’ve kept my list, going back to 1996. I’ve completed 9 books this year thus far, and virtually nothing in the last two months or more. I’ve started a dozen books and not finished any of them. It’s almost like I’ve given up. Granted, I’ve been busier [...]

Zeke is home!

I picked up Zeke from the vet right after work yesterday and he seemed happy to finally be home. His belly is shaved and you can see where the stitches are, but he doesn’t chew at them, or they are some special kind because he didn’t need one of those cones around his head. He [...]

A “Learned Astronomer” screenplay?

My buddy Paraag dropped by my office this morning to give me a “present”–which turned out to be a screenplay version of my short story, “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer“. Paraag writes screenplays and naturally, I could not resist reading this one. I whipped through all 39 pages of it and I really enjoyed [...]

Back to work

I came back to work today after a month of vacation. I can’t believe it went by so quickly! I was up at 4:30 AM in order to go to the gym this morning. When I got into my office, I found that it had been graffitied with Red Sox stuff everywhere. Actually, that doesn’t [...]

Stony Point, day 3

The food-fest continued this morning as Vicky made some excellent blueberry muffins. Maddie began to come out of her shell and was less shy and more playful this morning as well. After breakfast, I convinced Norm and Vicky that we should take a walk somewhere and Norm led us to what was supposed to be [...]

Stony Point, Day 2

Last night was my first night sleeping in the JRMBR (Jamie Rubin Memorial Bedroom) at vickyandnorm‘s new house and it was a very comfortable night indeed. There was even a sound machine that I could have used to listen to crickets, or the sound of the ocean, or white noise, but I didn’t need any [...]

Albany day 2/Stony Point day 1

I was up at about 7:15 AM this morning, in time to see strausmouse head off to work for a little while. I hung around the house with rmstraus and little Damian until Eric got back. We went for lunch along the Hudson River at a nice riverside cafe. There was a great breeze blowing [...]

A visit to Albany, day 1

Yesterday, after dropping Zeke off at the vet, I got on the road to head up to Albany to visit strausmouse and rmstraus. I was on the road by 8:20 AM and made surprisingly good time. In fact, I’d covered the entire 360 mile drive in under 6 hours and arrived at Eric and Ryane’s [...]

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