Someone significant is in jail tonight. To some degree it is my fault–I was unable to keep him out, despite putting a significant amount of time and effort into the task. It also fell to me to deliver him at the scheduled time. Although the appeal is pending, the courts rejected the [...]

I got shorted on sleep last night. It is entirely my own fault–I knew that I had to get to bed, but I put on a tape of an Inspector Lindley Mystery that I had failed to watch several times, and then instead of falling asleep during it I stayed awake through it. [...]

I did a fair bit of printing last night, covering the last maybe three hundred of the nearly nine hundred pages that comprise my Romans notes. When I do two-sided printing, the printer program ties up the screen for long periods, and I can’t really do anything else on the computer (a definite design [...]

I got in late from my anniversary dinner to find a message from one of the ushers at our wedding. I’d like to say he remembered our anniversary, but the truth is he recently found my web pages (through the songs, I think–he was drummer in The Last Psalm back in the early seventies) [...]

There is really not much to say today. I am told that the truck might be ready tomorrow morning, and that the car will also be done by the afternoon, so here’s hoping at least one of them is right; we had to return the borrowed van this morning and borrow a houseguest’s car [...]

I have continued to fight my way through the analysis of Primer, writing as I reason, and challenging my understanding of the film with each step. I need to view it again before I can finish it, because there is an extended segment about a guy with a shotgun at a party that I’ve [...]

There is a moment in the surf when one wave is still receding and the next is starting to advance. It’s an odd moment, because it seems quiet, and yet there is a lot of power and chaos around it.
That is today. I am reflecting in the back of my mind on what [...]

It is part of our family tradition at Thanksgiving that as we gather to eat, each person (beginning with the youngest) states something for which he is thankful. Although I am not the oldest every time, I am last, which puts me at the disadvantage that all the easy things have been taken. [...]

The heat is on, in more ways than one. John is here, ready to start working on tomorrow’s feast; the furnace was installed this morning sometime, and seems to be fully functional just as we are headed into our first brushes with zero celsius weather out here. the new car went through inspection [...]

Some of yesterday’s errands required follow-up today, including cancelling that order. There is some irony in the fact that although I took both my mother-in-law and my wife to the store last night, both of them managed to forget to bring the free turkey coupon they had earned by shopping. My mother-in-law will [...]