All Talk
When I posted something on Facebook last week about the new sports betting law in Delaware, one friend replied, "regulardegenerategambler.com." The post cracked me up for a couple of reasons.…
A Futile Quest
One of my biggest problems is that I don’t always learn from my mistakes. Generally this doesn’t affect anyone else, but I inconvenienced the rest of my family on Labor Day when we decided to go out for lunch.
Holiday weekend really provide ample opportunity to do whatever you please. We had already put together a nice weekend of fun, but had done a bunch of it separately.
I thought a nice lunch together would give the three of us a chance to wind down the weekend together. We didn’t see each other much on Sunday so we could spend the time catching up on what happened the day before.
A Little Help
In a couple of months, I have to the west coast travel for work. Sadly, it's not Vegas. This will require some fairly long plane rides. I need entertainment. I…
The Impetus
Like so many other people, I remember the particulars of 9/11 very clearly. I remember hearing on the radio - I was streaming the BBC at work - about a…
The Doctor is In
I generally don't get political here, but I ran a cross a great story about a program at the University of Washington's medical school. A friend works there and passed…
I Never Learn
Each summer, I get excited for the newest version of EA Sports' college football video game series. I look forward to taking control of a new school and trying to…
Sucker Bet
That noise you heard yesterday was the anticipation of sports betting in Delaware being sucked out of everyone who intended on visiting the first state to gamble on the NFL…
Book Review: The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
I have no doubt that Joshua Braff is a very talented writer. After all, he has a novel out and has appeared in at least one literary magazine. After reading…
A Most Important Day
Three people in Philadelphia will decide the fate of the free world today. Or they will decide whether Delaware can accept single-game bets on professional and college sports. To me,…
I Just Want to Sleep
I woke up the other morning at my usual time for a weekday, sometime around 5:30. I don’t like that I have to get up that early, but my body has adjusted, and I don’t even need an alarm clock anymore.
Like I usually do, I headed right for the computer. I don’t even try to pretend to be anything other than obsessed with e-mail and social networking. It’s easier to admit you are a geek than to make up excuses to deny the fact.
So I logged into Facebook and started checking out what my friends had posted through the night. Thanks to the aforementioned geekdom and my big family and assorted other connections, I have a lot of friends on there.
At the top of my list was a post from one of the college students I knew from my last job. I like keeping in touch with them for many different reasons.
She also had just woken up. However, her status bemoaned being up “in the middle of the night.”
I had to laugh. I had totally forgotten that my usual wakeup time is an ungodly hour for so many people. I had forgotten that my college self would never believe that 5:30 a.m. would be a familiar time of day in the future.