http://www.nonlocality.com Currently in Wordpress Upgrade Mode Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:05:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's nothing remarkable or special about this photo, taken during our Christmas visit to my parents' in 2008, except for that it was the last photo I took of my dad before he died. 2009 was a crazy year of ups and downs. Mathias' health, my dad's suicide, a new job, ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/12/31/472/ So, uh, hi. Turns out I didn’t have much time to write over the past few months. Work has been its typical crazy self, and on the MBA side of things, it turns out that I can probably handle seven credits—which means no more than two classes at ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/12/12/journal-for-12-dec-2009-resurfacing/ So, I thought I'd interrupt this three-class semester to let you know that Mathias played a joke on me at bedtime tonight.  I handed him his sippy cup full of milk, and he turned it over and started sucking on the bottom of the cup.  He waited until he knew ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/11/09/punked-by-mathias/ I'm on a huge spring cleaning binge, five months late. So, uh, anyone want some old magazines? http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/09/07/cleaning-out-the-storage-room/ So, it was my dad's birthday today. Not much else to say about that, except that it looks like everyone in the family did OK. http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/07/14/dads-birthday/ So, it was an interesting weekend. Lisa was down in Madison catching up with her folks, leaving me with our rambunctious little toddler. This was a fact that was both fun and challenging, but on the whole the weekend went well. We spent a lot of time outside ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/07/14/journal-for-14-july-2009-a-weekend-with-mathias/ So, I’m pretty much sick and tired of hearing about Michael Jackson, and dread the “human interest stories” about the fate of his kids and his estate that I’m sure we’ll be assaulted with over the coming weeks and months. While I fully recognize that he played a huge ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/07/09/enough-about-mj/ The original plan for the Fourth of July weekend had been to take Mathias on his first camping expedition, but those plans had to be scuttled due to a combination of everyone in the house getting sick—first Mathias, and then his mom and I in rapid succession—as well as the ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/07/07/journal-for-7-jul-2009-long-weekend/ With all of the time I've been spending on planes lately, I've had the chance to see a large number of movies I wouldn't have the time for otherwise. So, in lightning-round format, here are five reviews of movies I've seen on small, glowing screens about two feet from my ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/06/26/travelog-mostly-crappy-movies-i-saw-in-transit/ Despite the scheduling complexity in my life these days--one day this past week had meetings at both 7:30 AM and 10:30 PM--I'm trying to set aside 10-15 minutes every day to write.  So much going on, so little time to write or even think about it. ~ ~ ~ Today is my ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2009/06/20/journal-for-21-june-2009/