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Archive for January 2008

How do you decide where to live?

31 January 2008, 11:39 pm. 10 Comments. Filed under Family, Home.

Over the last two years, Sam and I have talked about mov­ing else­where. Geor­gia has almost no con­sumer pro­tec­tions for cit­i­zens, has a crappy sup­port struc­ture for humans in just about every way you can imag­ine, and has law enforce­ment who don’t care to enforce laws unless you’ve got enough money to get their atten­tion. Essen­tially, we want to live in a blue state, which means leav­ing the Bible belt. Cooler weather would be nice, too. Less humid heat, at least, would be a relief.

We haven’t really made plans, not want­ing to uproot Katie while she was in school and so on. There’s a lot of iner­tia, too, since I’ve been here all my life (except for the few years in Alabama before my par­ents moved us to Atlanta). Sam was born here, and wasn’t thrilled with New York or New Jer­sey when he lived there. Our fam­i­lies are here, which means some­thing, even if we don’t see them that often.
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Thing-​​A-​​Day With Me!

30 January 2008, 11:45 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Announcement, Blogging, Fun.

Thing-a-Day 2008 Flyer

I know that Hope and Juliann are doing it — any­body else? Any other Blog365 par­tic­i­pants should note that it will be a great source of blog ideas, and I know we all need those at this point.

Poetry: Michael Blumenthal

29 January 2008, 11:30 pm. 5 Comments. Filed under Poetry, Reading, Relationships.

For my Sam

A Mar­riage
You are hold­ing up a ceil­ing
with both arms. It is very heavy,
but you must hold it up, or else
it will fall down on you. Your arms
are tired, ter­ri­bly tired,
and, as the day goes on, it feels
as if either your arms or the ceil­ing
will soon collapse.

But then,
unex­pect­edly,
some­thing won­der­ful hap­pens:
Some­one,
a man or a woman,
walks into the room
and holds their arm up
to the ceil­ing beside you.

So you finally get
to take down your arms.
You feel the relief of respite,
the blood flow­ing back
to your fin­gers and arms.
And when your partner’s arms tire,
you hold up your own
to relieve him again.

And it can go on like this
for many years
with­out the house falling.

From Against Romance: Poems by Michael Blu­men­thal, Pen­guin Books, 1988

MomoCon?

28 January 2008, 10:50 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Fun, Geekery, RPGs.

Any­body going to Momo­Con here in Atlanta? I’d never heard of it before today. It’s free, and may be in its sec­ond year (I’m not sure). It seems quite small, which could be nice. It’s local, which is a big plus for us. I’m unclear as to whether there’s any gam­ing hap­pen­ing or not, and there’s no men­tion of filk­ing that I can see.

News Flash: Decatur Teen Comes Home Early From Date!

27 January 2008, 10:00 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Family, Health, Parenting.

What a weirdo! I mean, you’d think these kids were being, I don’t know, respon­si­ble or some­thing! Just because she has an appoint­ment early in the morn­ing, she came home early.

Kids these days! I don’t think I ever got home an hour and a half before curfew.

Maybe she’s smarter than I was. Hmmm.

But, really, she should have given us a warn­ing. She caught us podcasting!

 

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