Archive for the 'Off-topic' Category

What’s new with Daniel?

Friday, February 4th, 2005

I promised myself I wouldn’t post anything new until I had something positive to report. Unfortunately, things are pretty scary right now in chelationland. Since starting the whole chelation process (and this is true for both the NDF+ and our brief trial of DMPS), Rubén has been frighteningly aggressive. Scratching and pinching our hands, necks, […]

Adios, Huelva.

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

At least for now. We plan to return for good this summer. We’re fairly confident in our abilities to provide a lot of Rubén’s intervention ourselves (in fact, we’ve been doing so all this time), and if we get stuck, there’s always a lifeline to our current paraprofessionals via internet and phone (& internet phone, […]

The holiday from hell: two years later…

Saturday, December 11th, 2004

I’m sitting in a hotel room in Chicago, awaiting our flight out to Madrid (& then on to Sevilla) tomorrow afternoon. Since I don’t fancy myself sending out any posts from 30,000 feet, here’s a special holiday treat to tide you over. I wrote this essay on our Christmas trip from two years ago. It […]

Twenty goals.

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

A few of my blogger pals on LiveJournal have concocted a series of posts where they list their current “top twenty” goals in life. These can be related to any aspect of endeavor on this planet, and be either immediate or long-term. I don’t generally subscribe to the topics du jour of bloggerdom: I […]

Sick old dog.

Saturday, September 11th, 2004

My son wasn’t the only one under the weather in these past couple of weeks. You may have noticed an extended absence of posts this week. I too became ill, I thought with the same creeping crud to which Rubén fell victim. Good thing I got seen by a medical professional on this one — […]

Addicted to the Par-Tay.

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

This is a more-or-less off-topic post, mainly directed to my friends in and around town to whom a night of fragging, dancing DDR, and consuming lots of alchohol sounds like the bees’ knees.

This past weekend, I broke with tradition (the tradition of having no life whatsoever) and helped my friends Jenny and Paul celebrate their […]

The gub’ment.

Friday, August 27th, 2004

I made the long drive from Northern Kentucky around quittin’ time yesterday, and made it in just an hour or two past my bedtime, or so it felt. This training was the first on-site assignment I’d had since starting my little one-man company, and it was completely surreal.

My assignment was this: teach a two-day training […]

Getting off my ever-fattening rump.

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

Since moving back to Michigan, I’ve probably put on about ten pounds. I work at a desk. I do floortime with my son (which is an emotional workout, but not enough of a physical one to incinerate calories). Rather, linse, lepeat. It’s seriously all I do.

It hasn’t been all bad. I have seen some success […]