I posted 4 new videos of the little darling Dorothy Nettle to Google Video. These are the same links available through Dorothy’s Facebook Fan Club so that nobody is missing out on any of her sweetness. She SO much more awake after her first week, but is sticking to a good schedule of sleeping, nursing and looking cute. I haven’t organized any of our Dorothy pictures, yet, but will post links to those once I have.
And now, the links:
Video # 4: Dorothy with her Aunts
Video # 5: Dorothy with Hiccups
Video # 6: Family Dinner
Video # 7: Dorothy’s First Fire
I realize that not everybody is a fan of FaceBook. I wanted to make sure that anybody who wanted to see the little darling had a chance to see videos of her. As such, there are three links (below) to Google Videos that are copies of the ones I posted to FaceBook.
Video # 1: Almost Dinner Time
Video # 2: Mom, Dad and 2 Grandmas
Video # 3: What? Were you born yesterday?
Drop me a line if you have any issues viewing these videos.
The cat is definitely out of the bag: Mary and I are planning a huge trip (not quite round the world, but nearly there). Planned destinations are South America and Asia for (estimate) 4 months, each. We’ve been saving our pennies and laying the ground work for a long time now. Fortunately, the stars have come together and it’s time to pull the plug on our normal lives for exploration.
We received our Lonely Planet books last night and were excited to crack them open. We’re trying to NOT stay up all night reading about our impending adventures. After checking them out at the bookstore, we ordered the India (Country Guide) and South America (Shoestring). We have also ordered the Southeast Asia: On a Shoestring book, which should arrive sometime this week.
After getting an email from the folks at Co-op America, I started thinking about the presidential candidates that call nuclear power a ‘clean’ alternative source of energy. After President Bush mentioned that nuclear energy is an “emissions free” source of electricity, I wanted to reiterate that nuclear power is not a ‘clean’ source of energy. A good site to ask our next president to set the record straight: On Day One
I added an “idea” that I’d like to see the next president to stop calling nuclear energy a clean source of power. Feel free to leave a comment if you’d like… now, I’m hoping to make it onto Travis’ Picks!
Check out the latest project coming from the good people over at the Better World Campaign: on/day/1
I like two things about this sight:
- Anybody can send in their thoughts/ideas and vet them through the O/D/1 community
- As the pool continues to narrow (and especially after the election), O/D/1 can hold the candidates accountable to the promises they’ve made to the American people.
I have some ideas of things that I’d like to see and even more conversation to add to other posters. I’m sure you do too. Swing by the sight and add your voice - www.OnDayOne.org
We got the new apartment cleaned on Thursday and it looks (and feels) worlds better. No more grime nor cat hairs rolling around trying to attack us. Things are getting more settled and we’ve put all our furniture up on Craigslist to get it moving. We would like to sell all of our stuff to make ourselves lighter whenever we move again. Our rule of thumb has been that if it doesn’t fir in one of the cars, it can’t go to the new place. No trucks nor diesel fuels will be consumed during the move from Columbia Heights to Adams Morgan.
I posted some video shot from the windows of our new castle way up in the sky. I am starting to accumulate some content on Google Video and you can keep track of me chronologically by checking out my News Page. That’s all for now… it’s time to start packing up the bookshelves at the old place to fill up the massive one here in the new apt.
We´ve found a new place to live. Although we are saddened to be scurrying out of our Girard St. apartment, we are very much looking forward to some good times in our new building. It´s called the Chastleton and we´re moving up onto the top and eighth floor. It´s got a spectacular view of the Kennedy Center, Washington Monument, steeples and the Reagan approach. I´ll post pictures from the day and night times once they get taken. Now we are going to get our old place packed up and ready to move on down to Dupont.
Come over for a beer sometime, it is the only thing that occupies the fridge at the moment.
Mary and I submitted our papers to leave our Apartment on October 4th, which is 30 days from today. Maybe we’ll actually leave on Sept. 21st because we’re gonna be out in Cali the last week in September. Regardless, as Mary told our landlord Keay, one too many homicides on Girard St. for us to keep hanging around. We’ve started looking for a sublet, available immediately in a safer neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of DC. We really like what the city has to offer, but can no longer turn a blind eye to the crime happening on our doorstep. We’re still infatuated with the Mount Pleasant neighborhood that is close to our friends and accessible to our jobs. It looks like no matter where we wind up, we’ll have to pay more than the $1400 monthly rent we’d grown used to. Compared to apartments in Rochester, our expected increase will constitute robbery.
To all the women in my life and across the globe:
Happy International Women’s Day!
Without you, none of us would be here… so thanks for bravely being a woman in today’s world. Obviously, this information was brought to my attention by one of my favorite women at the Better World Campaign.
A couple weeks back, I noticed on my news page that my videos were not added in chronological order. I made a quick change to the RSS feed and now they appear properly within the other items: photos, music, etc. Also, I posted 2 videos from Georgetown’s 61-53 win over the Pittsburgh Panthers, yesterday.
