new york new york

So we’ve been quietly planning our upcoming vacation in New York, and finally locked in our reservations today.  Here’s how it all shook out:
 My birthday present was preview tickets to Young Frankenstein on Broadway.  As a huge Mel Brooks fan, and specifically a ridiculous fan of this movie, I was thrilled.  The tickets are for [...]

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results not typical

So remember how I was doing that whole no-crappy-foods-diet thing after my horrible head cold of horribleness?   Still doing it.
As I said, it mostly consists of steamed vegetables, rice and beans (any protein will do — after two weeks I’ve settled on canned navy beans as the laziest possible solution to What’s For Dinner), a [...]

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ontology, epistemology & hereditary annoyingness

The in-laws are in town this week, and they are a wacky bunch.  I love them actually, they are a major reason why I married into this family, because I wanted to be related to them.  However, they’ve never before descended on us in quite such a mutli-generational format — we’ve got Grammy, Mom, Step-Dad, [...]

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not dead yet

Well, the bad news is that I don’t really feel any better today than I did yesterday.  In sickness, as in all things, I generally insist on linear improvement.  I prefer exponential, but will settle for the merely geometric.   Alas.  Disappointed again.
The good news is that I had been planning all along to start a [...]

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cure for pain

I felt this one coming on Tuesday night after dinner, just a touch of a sore throat that made me think ice cream, I need ice cream…
When what I should have been thinking was theraflu, I need theraflu…
It wasn’t until I laid my head down on my pillow a few hours later that I recognized [...]

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head cold

too congested to lie down
too sore to sit up
too tired to consider the alternatives
thank god for brief, enforced vacations.

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