I wish that more of Daoud Hari would have come through in this memoir. The parts of the book that really highlighted his great personality and really got to the heart of his story were the most enjoyable, but those parts did not make up the majority of the book.
His story is amazing and the situation in Darfur deserves much attention. This book didn’t do justice to either.
This is another book I got from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I wrote this review for the site.
We had a few friends over on Saturday night for a birthday party.
We had a bit of cake to celebrate with.
Some champagne.
A little Mexican inspired food.
Check out the rest of the scene if you weren’t able to make it in person.
In today’s episode of the urban explorer, your host Benito Cain searches the jungles of Ballard for the elusive Wild Oliver…
Oliver likes to hang out upside down.
I did in fact submit a claim to TSA for Mom’s stolen Christmas present Wii. At the end of January I got a letter from TSA confirming that they received my claim.
Last week a claims investigator called me up to ask a few questions about how the incident went down. She then passed the claim on to a Delegated Authority Official. That person will do one of the following:
TSA has a new blog called Evolution of Security. There are a zillion comments on it detailing incidents very similar to mine.
What do you think? Will the TSA DAO actually approve my claim? I would really like Mom to have her Wii.
Two months after his arrival, I finally got to go see my little nephew again. He is the sweetest, cutest, most best baby I have ever known.
I got some good Ollie time in, holding and jiggling and bopping his nose.
It was hard to leave and I miss him already. Hello tiny sport!
As the sun set over a sunny Des Moines day in February, uh, wait, I don’t actually write like that.
Jackie and Matthieu are married! Whoo hoo!
The wedding was fantastic. The weather in Des Moines was great. I was bundled up, but I think the 20-30 degree temps were balmy for the locals as most were wearing what I would consider a spring jacket. Also, the pizza at Centro was amazing.
May Jackie and Matthieu enjoy many many years of happiness. There are a few more pictures over at my Picasa album.
For those of you who don’t keep up with my baby nephew’s YouTube page, here he is with a new trick.
For those not in the know, the favicon is that little image that appears in the address bar of your browser and on tabs and sometimes other places.
Currently a little red letter ‘E’ is the favicon here at Easysticks. A lot of other lazy website owners also have some form of the first letter of the site as a favicon. I wish not to be associated with these people so I need your help.
Any favicon ideas? Something that represents this site? Something that represents me?
This new gadget I’ve got is really the cat’s pajamas. The Eye-Fi wireless memory card does exactly what it says it will and has banished my camera’s USB cable to a dusty corner. I snap some pictures, leave my camera on for a few moments and like magic they appear in both my online web albums and my computer’s photo folder. No fuss, no muss, just take the pictures and wait (ever so briefly) for them to appear from clouds of fairy dust.
My friends, family members and stalkers can enjoy the benefits. There are a few shots up in my Picasa Web Albums.
Now no post should go without the thousand words a picture has to offer. So I’ll give you my latest obsession, the Meyer lemon. I’ve just been squeezing them into beverages and sleeping with them under my pillow. Anybody have any good recipes to take advantage of these lemons?
