Five years ago this week I underwent LASIK surgery. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. From age 9 into my early 40s, I depended on my glasses almost every waking moment. (I’d tried contacts a few times, without success.) Finally took the plunge, after the recommendation of two friends, and had […]
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Goodbye, Tassie Marie
Since I began blogging in early 2001, I’ve mentioned our family border collie in this space exactly … never. That shouldn’t be construed as a sign that Tassie hasn’t been an important part of our family; it’s just that I just never got bloggers who write about their cats or dogs every week. And I’m […]
A swing back East
I just uploaded three photos from our trip to New York last week. The trip also took me to Middlebury, Vermont, where I gave a presentation to a tech-savvy group of educators about Darknet and ourmedia (but didn’t take any photos). It was great to see the relatives (Tory, Ed, Mary Kay, Jessica, Byron, Carol) […]
Bobby goes first class
I waited until the last minute to place an order at stamps.com during the promotional period when the site and U.S. Postal Service were accepting images that anyone could upload. Toward the end, they prohibited images of teens and adults, which seems unreasonable to me. The fact that a few miscreants slipped orders of famous […]
Blogging from the Giants game
So it’s the bottom of the 7th inning here at SBC Park in San Francisco, and the Mets (my team) and the Giants (the home team) are tied 7-7. Lots of Mets fans in attendance, witnessing another shaky outing by Tom Glavine. My wife Mary (who’s under the weather) and I decided to take our […]