Miscellaneous

Welcome to March. May it bring better weather and health than February. The ten-day forecast in my region is unpleasant, so I'm not holding my breath, but I will continue to take it like a man: holding my head down and whimpering, "It'll never end.

I missed the blood red moon lunar eclipse two days ago. Still depressed about it, I tried to make it up by going to the new brewpub and drinking six (eight?) Blue Moons after work (3:30ish, for reasons I can explain, but not without whining). I think it did

Brutal cold. The kind that makes you say "sumbitch" every ten steps, the last punctuated with a shriek and shiver just as you leave the sidewalk and enter the nave. Between my lingering (but only lingering) illness and the repeat waves of cold and/or snow and/or

I treated myself to a leisurely day yesterday, in hopes of re-fueling for the office fire: three short naps, a movie with my boys (Cloverfield [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809873032/info], not recommended, but not horrible either), practiced baseball hitting with my second son and sports fanatic, watched football,

Possibly the best AI try-out ever [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoeMbIrcnCo&eurl=http://www.ericscheske.com/blog/] . Slayed me. A friend of mine thought the guy was serious. If that's the case, it's too creepy to be funny, but if the guy was

Am I the only person who reads a story like this and thinks, "Gays throwing rocks through radio station windows"? KSFB-AM 1260 signed on Dec. 10 as Immaculate Heart Radio in the San Francisco Bay Area, the newest outlet in a prospering Catholic radio network and possibly the

> A Catholic-run hospital faces a lawsuit for refusing breast augmentation surgery to a transgendered person, the San Jose Mercury News reports. [http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11383] > Charlene Hastings, a 57-year-old San Franciscan, inquired about the surgery at Seton Medical Center. According to Hastings, a surgical

It dawned on me this weekend that July 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae [http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html] . No doubt the press will be all over it. If you give me modest odds (say, 3-to-1)

The newest exercise "craze" (that's a little strong, but so be it): open-water swimming [http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/50-ways-to-improve-your-life/2007/12/20/take-a-splash-in-the-hudson-river.html] . My wife will vouch for it. When we vacation up north, she loves to swim in Lake Huron (assuming the