Year: 2007

…and he’s using it to scan in all of the old family slides that have been sitting in my parents various closets over the years. Behold me, at some young ages. I’ll try to annotate as much as I can remember.

Me with a doll in bed. I think this was my parents room. They used to let me watch tv in there. I’m pretty sure I still have one of these sheets that we use as a painting drop cloth. Note the wallpaper.

On the jungle gym with my brother and Mom in our back yard in New Jersey. Note my mom’s cool sunglasses and my fine matching orange hat, sweater and socks. I bet someone knit those for me.

I’m not looking too pleased in my Halloween costume, posing next to our next door neighbors Scott, David and Greg.

No memories of this moment. But do check out the lovely baby walking shoes of yore.

No memories of this moment either, although I don’t look too pleased to be having my picture taken.

We had our 18 week ultrasound on Friday, which went very well. We also found out that our progeny-to-be is a boy. Or at least, so said el sonogramador. This picture barely does justice to the beauty of our boy – but it is your first peak at who is to come.

I thought I was pretty down with British slang, but as I watched the BBC news this morning, I saw this crawl across the bottom of the screen:

Tiger Woods in determined mood as he looks to break his major duck this season at the USPGA chamionships

You never know what’s going to be lost in translation. Reminds me of a guy I used to work with who grew up in North Carolina and hadn’t traveled much until he went to England on a business trip. His hosts asked him what he did for fun, and he said he liked to dance. They asked what his favorite was, and as a good North Carolina boy who grew up going to the beach and dancing a particular homegrown R&B dance, he responded, "I like to shag." You can imagine their reaction.

A sign at our local Barnes & Noble.

From the Verizon mobile web browser news homepage:

Rumsfeld Denies Coverup
Saudis Back US Plans
Bank of America
Go Shopping

I have Google Alerts set up for keywords and phrases related to my new company, since it’s part of my job, as The Tick would put it, to monitor the culture. I just came across a web site that I cannot figure out. It appears to have been translated from English to another language and then back again. Here’s a choice passage:

Do they make bold to state "impeach"? One someone’s airtight legal lawsuit is another’s "remain out the Bushes."

Saturday 28 July 2007 @ 09:22:35 pm

YOU’LL NEVER DISCOVERY anyone as impartial, disinterested, judicious, and concerned only with the eudaemonia of the American people as a party chop laying into a politician from a challenger party. Thus the suit for the impeachment of President George W. Bush has turned organically from the very textile of the world. It’s not that Democrats are moved by defeat with Bush and his party’s electoral profit run–snake pit, the Dems profoundly rue that they’ve been took to this! It’s that Bush’s prevarications and offenses of the Fundamental law are so egregious, so without case in point in American history, that we must trigger the gravest of constitutional chemical mechanisms.