2 0 0 5

MAY
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

APRIL
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05

MARCH
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

FEBRUARY
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

JANUARY
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

2 0 0 4

DECEMBER 05
DECEMBER 04
DECEMBER 03
DECEMBER 02
DECEMBER 01
NOVEMBER 04
NOVEMBER 03
NOVEMBER 02
NOVEMBER 01
OCTOBER 05
OCTOBER 04
OCTOBER 03
OCTOBER 02
OCTOBER 01
SEPTEMBER 04
SEPTEMBER 03
SEPTEMBER 02
SEPTEMBER 01
AUGUST 04
AUGUST 03
AUGUST 02
AUGUST 01
JULY 05
JULY 04
JULY 03
JULY 02
JULY 01
JUNE 04
JUNE 03
JUNE 02
JUNE 01
MAY 04
MAY 03
MAY 02
MAY 01
APRIL 05
APRIL 04
APRIL 03
APRIL 02
APRIL 01
MARCH 04
MARCH 03
MARCH 02
MARCH 01
FEBRUARY 04
FEBRUARY 03
FEBRUARY 02
FEBRUARY 01
JANUARY 05
JANUARY 04
JANUARY 03
JANUARY 02
JANUARY 01

2 0 0 3

DECEMBER 04
DECEMBER 03
DECEMBER 02
DECEMBER 01
NOVEMBER 04
NOVEMBER 03
NOVEMBER 02
NOVEMBER 01
OCTOBER 03
OCTOBER 02
OCTOBER 01
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST 02
AUGUST 01
JULY 02
JULY 01
JUNE 02
JUNE 01
MAY 02
MAY 01
APRIL 02
APRIL 01
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

IN RETROSPECT

2 0 0 2

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

2 0 0 1

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

2 0 0 0

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

1 9 9 9

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

1 9 9 8

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

WEDDING

First poppy of the year
Not, of course, ours -- but seen on Bryden Road. Our poppies have many leaves, but no buds. They didn't flower at all last year, but maybe just maybe ... we can always hope.

MAY 6, 2005

M A Y 1 4 , 2 0 0 5

Firebird
At Mershon Auditorium at OSU. Amy strongly disapproved of the lighting in the auditorium -- not during the show, but when the house lights were up.

The final piece of the night, set to Stravinsky's discordant Rite of Spring, was very well danced, very well staged, and yet not the kind of piece you want to say you enjoyed. It definitely had the sense of arbitrariness that was present in Jackson's "The Lottery," a short story I soundly disliked all through high school.

I still try to avoid it.

And yet it always comes up, and you are always supposed to read it. I didn't mind watching it as much, however; and certainly not as much as Amy, who was not really happy with that part of the evening.

Chris and Alan's wedding
Reception at Schmidt's, where we sat with Don & Lea, Dominic & Joan.

The cake had Bible verses written all around it.

The fish moved back outside
And will hopefully remember that cats looming over the water are danger -- not to be confused with human fingers reaching over the fishbowl with food.

M A Y 1 3 , 2 0 0 5

One Acts at Watterson
"You are a piece of fish ... " Amy's favorite line

Ice Cream
From German Village's Lickety Split, followed by a walk in the park and a thorough drenching as a thunderstorm moved in and opened up.

Charlie took off running from the first peal of thunder, but we still had a way to go when the rain came down.

Two buds have appeared on the poppy
Big and full and very promising in appearance.

M A Y 1 2 , 2 0 0 5

Choir rehearsal
And what a choir rehearsal it was -- down to three pieces for the remainder of the year, and we practiced those three over and over and over. Not that we didn't need it, ...

Bexley afterwards. And a long discussion about the church.

Amy attended a drama production at Watterson.

M A Y 1 1 , 2 0 0 5

Everything moves
Every story, every page -- left, right, up and down the newshole

M A Y 1 0 , 2 0 0 5

Sideways
(DVD) A very slow to get into movie

Pastor Hudson submits a letter of resignation
Effective in October

Turned the paper over to the ad and circ departments
Who have discovered that signed contracts let them get away with things they shouldn't be able to demand.

M A Y 9 , 2 0 0 5

ABOVE No. No. The other left lane.

Finished painting the bathroom
All ready to put the pieces back together

Picked out a kitten
At Pets Without Parents. He can come home next Monday.

Spent some time discussing names.

Such as "Xeno."

Xenophanes | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy, Xenophanes was a native of Colophon, and born about 570 BCE. It is difficult to determine the dates of his life with any accuracy and the facts of his life are also obscure. Xenophanes early left his own country and took refuge in Sicily, where he supported himself by reciting, at the court of Hiero, elegiac and iambic verses, which he had written in criticism of the Theogony of Hesiod and Homer. From Sicily he passed over into Magna Graecia, where he took up the profession of philosophy, and became a celebrated teacher in the Pythagorean school. Give way to a greater freedom of thought than was usual among the disciples of Pythagoras, he introduced new opinions of his own opposing the doctrines of Epimenides, Thales, and Pythagoras. He held the Pythagorean chair of philosophy for about seventy years, and lived to the extreme age of 105.

That was my contribution, anyway.

M A Y 8 , 2 0 0 5

People unclear on the concept ...
Unfortunately, this time it's the fire department, and they seem to have forgotten about the constitution.

Once the bomb squad determined that there was no threat, student Derek Cote, 33, was told to come down to the street with his camera. He had been taking pictures of the action through the fifth-floor window.

Officers wanted to confiscate the digital camera's memory card, but it wasn't removable. So fire Lt. Steve Martin erased the seven images just taken.

Fire Battalion Chief Doug Smith conceded that there's no law that allowed the pictures to be destroyed the way they were.

But if the students hadn't given in, firefighters would have told police that they were "suspicious persons" and would have gotten a warrant to confiscate the images, Smith said.
(NBC4i | Artwork makes critics of Columbus firefighters)

After determining that the students posed no threat (and thus presumably were Not suspicious persons), the fire department threatened to get a warrant alleging (therefore falsely) that they Were "suspicious persons," solely to confiscate and destroy images that they had no right to destroy.

Not only is there no law allowing the fire department to do such a thing, there is a whole constitution prohibiting it. I hope, still.

Painted the bathroom
Sonic lime.

To Columbus

Grilled out
For dinner. Sally got a trim, the lemon mint in the garden got cut far far back.