Category: general news
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Grandmary arrives!
Debi’s Mom, Rosemary (a.k.a. Grandmary; her dad, Gary, is “Grandgary” to the grandkids), flew in yesterday. She’s visiting for about a week (I’ll take some photos while she’s here, but haven’t yet). I just have to note that her knowledge of babies has already proven invaluable. While I’ve been posting mostly cute pictures of Toren,…
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Toren at the beach
Toren had his first visit from family on the 13th when his uncle, Brent Robbins, overnighted in Tampa. We went out to Clearwater for dinner and Brent was kind enough to take a photo of our little family – the first with all three of us. It’s not the greatest photo (not Brent’s fault), but…
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the new babysitter
Debi tried this out one day while we were eating breakfast and Toren seemed fine with it: We use it occasionally while we eat, which is usually just after he has eaten. Every time we do it I look at him and think, “He is so small!”:
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How can you not give him more?
I was never really a fan of newborn babies. They always kind of looked like chimps to me: Of course, everyone always told me I would change my mind when I had my own child. I hate it when everyone is right and I’m wrong! Anyway, I think what really did it was when I…
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Game on!
Contractions started at 2:30. Water broke at 5:40. Epidural in at 6:40. Now we’re just waiting… 🙂
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Star Trek
So, it turns out Debi and I aren’t the only Star Trek fans in Tampa. We weren’t interviewed by Fox 13, but saw all of these people being interviewed when we went last night. As far as the movie goes, it’s very good, but somewhat problematic as far as the Star Trek time line goes. …
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science is amazing!!!
Here’s a great NYTimes article this morning summarizing some recent genetic research on the origins of humans in Africa. We’ve known for quite some time that humans originated in Africa, but the current studies trace human ancestry to the southwest corner of Africa, something that had not been done before. That’s pretty cool. But even…
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Spring Dance Concert
Among all the other things Debi has been doing, she found the time to choreograph a dance for the University of Tampa Spring Dance Concert with a friend (and now neighbor). Here it is:
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breathing earth
A student found this site and showed it to me the other day: http://www.breathingearth.net/ Spend a few minutes perusing it. Disturbing.
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letter to the editor of the St. Petersburg Times
I caught this story a couple of days ago about a wealthy chiropractor trying to change Florida legislation on childhood vaccines. I was so annoyed by it that I wrote a letter to the editor of the St. Petersburg Times. They called yesterday to let me know they were going to publish it. Found it…