Travel hassles
We're nearing the end of this whirlwind, multi-flight trip and things have gone amazingly smoothly. so I shouldn't complain about anything. And I'm not. Not really, anyhow.But spending a lot of times in American airports after doing so much…
Courtside at Pistons Game
I don't have a working camera at the moment, but I used PhotoBooth to snap this shot of me at the scorer's table and the action in front of me. I should have been bolder in turning around the computer and snapping. I missed some great shots.There…
Huckabee Fever!
Apropos to nothing, except I found this hilarious. From the NY Times:On Thursday night [Huckabee] told reporters in Orlando, Fla.: “We ought to have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our borders and particularly to make sure if there’s…
Trip going well, new column up
The trip is going well. We have zipped through time zones like time travelers and we're all now more or less adjusted. we had a great week skiing in Colorado and are now banging around beautiful Bay City, Michigan Becky is speaking to the Pinconning…
Trip going well, new column up
The trip is going well. We have zipped through time zones like time travelers and we're all now more or less adjusted. we had a great week skiing in Colorado and are now banging around beautiful Bay City, Michigan Becky is speaking to the Pinconning…
Radio Silence likely
We are leaving this afternoon, in about three hours, for our annual whirlwind, pray-our-flights-all-leave three week tour of North America. I'll make a few updates when I have a chance to breathe, but expect lots of silence in coming days.Drop…
Pittsburgh feedback
My column about moving out of the Pittsburgh house brought a lot of old friends out of the woodwork and I had some really nice exchanges with several people in the last week. I wanted to share some of them here. Since I didn’t ask folks how…
"Can you dunk?"
Those of you who have been reading this blog from the beginning, meaning since we moved to China in August, 205, approximately 775 posts ago, may remember a little incident when we went to the giant police station get our long term Visas for…
Always Time for A Wall pic
An acquaintance just found and sent me these photos of me and Dixie on a broken down section of the Wall from their visit in October 06. I took my folks on a school-sponsored trip to the Commune at the Great Wall, a very cool place. This…
More Pittsburgh
Here are a couple paragraphs I cut from my last column, all stuff about Pittsburgh... it just seemed like I was going a little overboard with that angle and needed to trim it back, but it's all true... Whole column again can be read hereBy the…