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Another day…

Morning: scuba diving. A couple of rays, a lot of turtles, one guy making silly faces. (Note: you should not intentionally remove your regulator while diving. (The regulator is the mouthpiece that you breathe through.  (Okay, scuba geeks.  That’s not … Continue reading

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The evening is for you!

Because it’s when I blog! Oh, okay. We eat dinner too. Tonight we go to a special pirate-themed dinner here at the hotel. There’s a good buffet, a band that plays quite well, and a fire-eater who was not spectacular, … Continue reading

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The afternoon is family time

I get back from diving at noon and meet up with everyone. We go out for some Mongolian barbeque for lunch (yum!). Then a couple hours shopping in town, followed by some snorkeling with Kate. A fine afternoon! Here’s some … Continue reading

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The morning is for me

It looks like I’m going to be settling into a simple pattern. The morning is my time – the kids all sleep late anyway, so I’m free to go off and have my little adventures. In this case, my little … Continue reading

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Grand Cayman ho!

I’m sitting in the Marriott Beach Resort in Grand Cayman. We’re spending the week here. I do love the tropics, and I have rarely so needed some time to relax, to float in the water and let the world spin … Continue reading

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Christmas wow

This year has been a bit too much – details to follow in my year-end post.  For the latest roller-coaster flip: we had Christmas down at my beach house, with my mother invited along.  Not surprisingly, given that my father … Continue reading

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Eugene Dzikiewicz, RIP

Eugene Dzikiewicz, my father, died on December 9. A slideshow of pictures of him, presented at his funeral, is at http://flickr.com/photos/jdzik/sets/72157603519495034. The following is a eulogy that I delivered at that funeral. If you ever spent much time with my … Continue reading

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A new home, and a new beginning

I’ve decided to act like one of the blogging big boys, and set up on my own domain. Maybe I’ll even play with the theme of the site, so that it does not look quite so boring.  (But I’m not … Continue reading

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What makes me really mad about Iraq

Heaven knows that there are plenty of good reasons to get mad about the War in Iraq.  The incredible incompetence shown by this administration, the way that we surrendered the moral high ground at Abu Ghraib, the stovepiping of intel … Continue reading

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Make it more like Google!

After reading the Randy Falco interview in the Washington Post today, something that made me ever more joyful to be out of AOL, one of the biggest mistakes of the Falco-Grant regime occurred to me. Grant is notorious amongst those … Continue reading

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