Thursday, February 19, 2004
Good to be back home
posted by Eric
Famille Rule-Becker finally moved back into our yellow house last Saturday after nearly six months in exile. We had the house de-leaded after Cedric's lead levels were higher than we would have liked. The friendly folks at the Somerville Housing Department told us it would be a six to eight week process. Ha, ha, ha! Those kidders. So clever, so witty! So.... wrong.
We moved out just before Labor Day weekend. Summer clothes, back to school season, all that. And here we are, with the spring fashions hitting the shelves any day (or maybe I'm behind and they are already there).
We moved into my mother's house, where I grew up. A bit strange beiong back there for such an extended period, but it went remarkably well.
In the interim, Cedric learned to walk and talk and Isabelle learned to write her name.
Howard Dean went from obscurity to the covers of Time and Newsweek to late-night infamy. And Vanessa and I were very much on board. Vanessa wrote about 60 or 80 letters on behalf of the campaign. I spent three days in New Hampshire volunteering for the campaign, which was a blast. I didn't want to go back to my real job.
Oh, and I got an album that you should check out if you're into that jazz/bluegrass/female vocalist thing. It's by the Wayfaring Strangers. Here is the link.
I hope all of you are well all around the globe.
-Eric
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We moved out just before Labor Day weekend. Summer clothes, back to school season, all that. And here we are, with the spring fashions hitting the shelves any day (or maybe I'm behind and they are already there).
We moved into my mother's house, where I grew up. A bit strange beiong back there for such an extended period, but it went remarkably well.
In the interim, Cedric learned to walk and talk and Isabelle learned to write her name.
Howard Dean went from obscurity to the covers of Time and Newsweek to late-night infamy. And Vanessa and I were very much on board. Vanessa wrote about 60 or 80 letters on behalf of the campaign. I spent three days in New Hampshire volunteering for the campaign, which was a blast. I didn't want to go back to my real job.
Oh, and I got an album that you should check out if you're into that jazz/bluegrass/female vocalist thing. It's by the Wayfaring Strangers. Here is the link.
I hope all of you are well all around the globe.
-Eric
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
It's about time
posted by Eric
So there were a few major flaws in my first launch of The Pang blog. First, nobody knew when anybody else had posted something. So unless you're a compulsive blog-checker (H, are you listening?), you would have little to remind you of The Pang and all its navel-gazing, baby-spit-up goodness.
I'm fixing this by setting up an email group that will be notified whenever there is a new posting. And if you consider it Spam, then go to freakin' hell - I never liked you anyway.
I'm not going to tell you what the rest of the major flaws are. You can guess if you want, though there are no prizes to be had. And we're not talking technical flaws. We're talking metaphysical/societal. But there I go slipping into the royal We again....
Anyway, please come back and give some second round updates. Mine is forthcoming shortly.
-Eric
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I'm fixing this by setting up an email group that will be notified whenever there is a new posting. And if you consider it Spam, then go to freakin' hell - I never liked you anyway.
I'm not going to tell you what the rest of the major flaws are. You can guess if you want, though there are no prizes to be had. And we're not talking technical flaws. We're talking metaphysical/societal. But there I go slipping into the royal We again....
Anyway, please come back and give some second round updates. Mine is forthcoming shortly.
-Eric
