I enjoyed some Vietnamese food with my old friend Paul and his son David this week. While there, we participated in a hot sauce exchange. I gave him this and this, and he gave me Palo Alto Firefighters XX Habanero Pepper Sauce. This started as the end product of a backyard pepper garden one of … Read more
Theater is part of politics. I get that. It is still incredibly childish and disingenuous of President Obama to pretend that it’s necessary to cancel White House tours as a result of sequestration. I’ve read here and there that canceling White House tours saves $18,000 per week. So, we’re talking just under $1 million a … Read more
Lea and I messed up Aaron’s eighth birthday. He wanted a red-eared slider, which we generally (and, as it turned out, ignorantly) agreed to. When I started researching how to properly care for one, it became an impractical consideration in a hurry. Red-eared sliders need truly massive amounts of space. Then, well, the issue languished … Read more