Syzdekistan

Today, Rob and I took the kids hiking up Golden Canyon in Death Valley. Both three-year olds had a great time and both dads had fun watching them. We hit some light rain near Death Valley Junction and it had just stopped raining we got at the trailhead. We had lunch in the parking lot.

Rob [...]

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Here is the eulogy that Rob gave at his father’s funeral:

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Yesterday, Nancy and I went to Robert Williams’ funeral services. The Mass at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s was very touching. Rob gave a beautiful eulogy and the playing of “Taps” and the folding and presentation of the flag was extraordinarily moving. Since the Review Journal removes obituaries from their site, I have copied it [...]

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I talked to Aaron today about his mammal trapping trip to northern Nevada, southeast Oregon, and southwest Idaho. He went with his girlfriend who is working on her PhD in biology. She is doing genetic work on kangaroo rats to determine the evolutionary relationships between different groups of kangaroo rats. To do this, she traps [...]

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I just got done with my evening run (more on that saga later) around midnight tonight and I had just finished logging it on my Mac when I checked CNN and they had a breaking news story that Steve Irwin had been killed by a stingray near Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia.
I was a fan [...]

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My best friend Rob lost his father to cancer this morning. Robert Williams will always be remembered for being a genuinely kind and gentle man. He worked as an engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad was proud to be a native Nevadan (he was from Caliente). I will never forget the time that he took [...]

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Congratulations to our good friends Sharon and Joey who just had a baby. The exchange of emails regarding the happy addition was pretty funny (especially if you are a biologist).
More under the fold:

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I like to thank Paul at Blue Eyed Buddhist for his very nice comments on some links I blogged about some time ago.
That’ll have to do for links for now- it’s bedtime. And I found all of these through a guy, David Szydek [sic], who commented on my blog (hi Dave!). To be honest, [...]

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I’ve stolen this meme from the excellent parenting blog, Cynical Dad. This is a very funny blog about raising small children. He’s a little bit too paranoid about some things (of course my lax attitude towards germs probably get me in big trouble some day). Anyway, I swiped this fun meme from him. Check it [...]

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Tonight we are watching Terry and Morgan’s kids. Terry is stuck in California and Morgan has to work at 4:30 AM to 1:00 PM shift on July 4th so we are watching Derek (age 2) and Addison (age 1/3). It’s Caroline’s first sleepover which she made more interesting by being in naked mode most of [...]

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