Tag: kiddo

El Pato Falso

This is my publicly-accessible business registry information as retrieved from the web site of the Czech Statistical Office. The line I’ve highlighted in yellow shows my previous address in U.S. Everything’s okay through street, street number, city… until you get to ‘Spojené státy mexické,’ which is ‘United States of Mexico’. ¿ Um… que ? That’s [...]

Assorted thoughts on Buy Nothing Day

Yesterday was a nice occasion to stop and reflect on all the things we’re grateful for in life. Unfortunately, it was also the nine year anniversary of Katherine Harris certifying George W. Bush as the winner of Florida’s electoral votes. Well, isn’t that a kick in the teeth. Happy ‘Angst-giving’. Having a spiral staircase in [...]

Damn it all

Red Sox fold like accordions, meekly bow out of playoffs. No more meaningful baseball for another 7 months. My feelings exactly.

Our baby eats other babies

Or so it would seem… We took our kid Felix to the doctor today for a checkup and were told that he’s the size of an 8 month old. Even though he’s only 4 months. Uh oh. During an earlier visit, one mother even thought there was something developmentally awry because he wasn’t doing the [...]