September 9, 2009: Arriving in Europe

My flight on Aer Lingus from New York’s JFK airport to Dublin, Ireland went really well.  We had an eight mile per hour tailwind and completed the Atlantic crossing in just five and a half hours.  It went by really quickly.  I barely noticed it at all.  I had a nice Irish lady sitting beside …

November 7, 2008: Indian Summer

14 Days to Baby Day! (38 Weeks Pregnant) Happy belated 50th Anniversary to Strunk and White.  Every middle school graduate should own a copy.  A home library essential for everyone. It has been so warm this past week.  We are definitely into the Indian Summer of November.  It has been so warm that even a …

September 3, 2008: Learning About Trains

79 Days to Baby Day! (28 Weeks and 5 Days Pregnant) I looked in on my Wikipedia entry on Blam (meaning “Comment Spam”) which is a term that I coined and added to Wikipedia many years ago in the hopes of it becoming a standard term.  My definition remains the top definition for the word …

July 25, 2008: So We Bought a House…

Little Lulu Moppet lives at 22 Main Street in Meadowville (aka Peekskill, New York.) Little Lulu is a classic American comic strip character from the 1930s. The rain is gone and the hot, humid weather is back in force in the New York Metro area. Not only is it hot today but tomorrow and Sunday …

January 3, 2008: Snyrting

Congratulations to Jeff and Danielle Simpson who, on December 26th, welcomed the newest member of their family: Justin Reid Simpson. Everyone is home and doing fine. While I am busy cleaning out my email, here is Tony West’s New Blog. Oreo stayed in bed for a solid twelve hours. Just as he was leaving daycare …