Child 2.0 is due on 9 May, in less that three weeks. Child 1.0 was a couple weeks early, and it’s apparently statisically likely that a second child will arrive earlier than a first. Any bets on my daughter-to-be’s birthdate? I’m putting my money on 26 April, because that would …
Robert Frost’s 1915 poem is quoted a lot here at The Citadel. It’s in The Guidon — on page 16, knobs! — which is the standard “how-to-be-a-cadet” book that must be memorized by all students. It’s on posters and admissions materials. Heck, it’s even referenced on the cover of a …
I thought today, for no good reason at all, about the Novel-writing sketch by Monty Python. The “video” below is audio only, but it still gets the point across:
I’m getting very, very tired of being ill. I can hardly remember a period of such prolonged blechitude in my life. It’s been months since I could say I was 100% chipper, and that ain’t right. Alas, it’s so bad at the moment that I might actually have to cancel …
I like Charleston. I really do. But I’m finding I don’t like the catkins around here. Heck, I didn’t even know what catkins were until recently. Pictured at left, they’re the male part of the pollenation process of oak trees (apparently), though I know them only as the clouds of …