Since September, I’ve been part of a coaching team training our best minds at our school where I work for the Academic Bowl. Last night, we lost in the Academic Bowl national championship finals to a team that performed better than we did. But I could never be prouder of my team. While we lost [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Dr. Pepper the Turtle
Posted in Oy! Life! on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Candidates’ Views on Disability
Posted in My Better Half, Oy! Life! on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You got to give props to my wife — she sure has pretty good connections. In her most recent blog this morning, she found a link that analyzed the remaining four three presidential candidates’ views on disability. In a nutshell – Clinton has a good plan — supporting IDEA and a better health care system. [...]
An Idiot on the Road
Posted in Oy! Life! on April 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today Alli and I were driving home from picking up Leah from a visit to her friend’s house and on the way home on Montgomery Village Avenue, I noticed a car that was driving a bit over the lines and passed that car. Then all of a sudden in my rear view mirror something zoomed [...]
Wet Dog
Posted in Extended limbs and appendages, Oy! Life! on April 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Sure, the title can be misleading. But read this. Tonight we (we refers to the immediate family) went out for dinner with my sister in law and mother in law at a Japanese-Thai restaurant at the Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg. Sushi Siam is thy name. Thy food sucks. Why? My sister in law had food [...]
Olympic Torch Situation
Posted in Oy! Life! on April 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Olympic torch flame route was disrupted today in Paris by thousands of demonstrators who are protesting China’s human rights record, its illegal takeover of Tibet and China’s ignorance of the situation in Darfur and Sudan. It wasn’t the only site where protests occurred. Over the weekend protesters in London, England also attempted to extinguish the [...]
The Chronicles of Candy
Posted in Oy! Life!, The Spawn of CK on April 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Being a father to a 6-year-old stubborn lil’ redhead can be exhausting sometimes. Last night Leah had finished dinner (she cleaned her plate and got seconds, so that’s good) and promptly asked for dessert. The following conversation transpired. Of course it was in ASL, but me in no mood to gloss, so here it is: [...]
This is no April Fool’s Joke
Posted in Oy! Life! on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t play any tricks on anybody today. In fact, I “educated” my high school students on the history of April Fool’s Day. They all apparently enjoyed the mini-lesson, I hope. Here’s what’s not a joke — I saw the headline on Yahoo! News and opened the link, half expecting a Sidd Fitch story (which [...]
