Syzdekistan

Despite waking up throwing up on Saturday morning, I was feeling good enough by Saturday night to fly out to Orange County for the first step in the marrow donation process. Early Sunday morning I went to the cancer center and the two nurses there opened the door for me. They did a quick physical […]

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I did a little work on the Syzdekistan Blog today. I set up the feeds to go through FeedBurner and added a sidebar with shared items from my Google Reader account. If I see a cool posting somewhere it will be listed under “Syzdekistan News Clips” for your reading pleasure. If you really, really like […]

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The weather in the week before and after Christmas in Las Vegas has been pretty chilly but it has finally warmed up in advance of a strong winter storm event coming in from the Pacific. While temperatures were nowhere near record lows, it was a bit below average with highs in the 40s and lows […]

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It was an uniquely satisfying experience this morning to take my mother-in-law to the airport and to put her on a plane bound for Syria.

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Earlier this week, I watched someone die after being ejected from a single car rollover. To protect privacy, I will purposely be very vague in my description of what happened.
I was driving back from a work project with one of my interns and a vehicle ahead of us veered off of the highway and […]

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Today I came uncomfortably close to death.
At work, we are currently doing some native fish surveys on the Muddy River. We spent the morning checking hoop nets and minnow traps for native fish on the lower river right above Lake Mead. We caught a variety of introduced fish and a few bullfrog tadpoles and […]

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Hot Wife and I resumed going to weekly church services after taking a several week break because of the the arrival of The Boy. We were waiting for Mass to begin and suddenly the congregation burst into applause as Father Bill Kenny walked into the church. He had been put on suspension by the bishop […]

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Most years, the first day of spring lands on March 20th and some years it lands on my birthday, March 21. This year, one author looked at 13 calendars and six said the first day of spring is March 20 and six said it was on March 21 (one, a Star Trek calendar, only mentioned […]

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Here is a brief chronology of the birth of baby Andrew (The Boy). Even though it was several days ago, I am still amazed on how well everything went and how great we are all doing. Pictures can be found at link.
0000: We arrived at the hospital at midnight. Hot Pregnant Wife and I were […]

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Baby Andrew arrived at 10:24 AM on March 7, 2007. He was 8 pounds 3 ounces and 19.5 inches tall. The Boy and Hot (Recently Pregnant) Wife are doing great! I’ve got to run back to the hospital, so here are some photos.

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