This past weekend we delivered a new baby. Our friend Bev has become the proud mother of a 38 pound baby girl named Elle. She’s 20 inches wide on the diagonal has a SuperDrive, two firewire ports and is cute as the dickens. Yes, Bev bought an iMac with all the trimmings and we went…

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We had a busy Monday for a holiday – first it was rising and chining at 5:30am to head over to Descanso Gardens for the annual Fiesta Days 5K/10K Run at 8am. It’s quite the local tradition and several people we knew were planning to run it. We hadn’t registered so needed to do that…

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We’re off on vacation tomorrow. We’ll be starting the trip at my sister’s, a neo-Luddite who has resisted all attempts to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century (translation: they still have dialup access). So our blogging may be somewhat spotty over the next week (but then, when is it not spotty, one…

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I was reading fark.com and ran across a reference to an MSNBC story on the top ten annoying things our fellow travelers do. As Chuck and I have been doing a fair amount of traveling lately (and are about to head across the country for yet more), this list really hit home. Number eight, seat…

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This just in from Wired News: a collar to monitor your dog’s social patterns of behavior. Does your dog have an attitude when it comes to small wimpy dogs? Does he/she long to tear the throat out of the terrier down the street? Does he/she just roll over in defeat belly up when ANY other…

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Pity those poor fools standing in line at Grauman’s for the premiere of Star Wars Episode III in six weeks. Seems the movie isn’t even showing there! Man, life sucks sometimes. Interestingly, most aren’t moving. Feel free to call them at 323-462-9609 and ask why.

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