Gary’s shared linksSTRATFORD, NJ, USA I’m watching the Euro 2008 final on TV. Why is it that ABC/ESPN is abbreviating “Spain” as “ESP,” but abbreviating Germany as “GER”? It seems to me like they should pick a standard and stick to it–either abbreviate both in their native languages, or abbreviate both in English. “GER vs SPA” or [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA So, yesterday marked 19 months since I moved in with my grandmom. I don’t really have much to say this time around, because everything from my last monthly Nana-recap still holds. My grandmom still continues to decline slowly, but it’s not always immediately noticeable. The only real changes in the last month [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA By chance, do any of my readers use Google Reader to share feeds? If you do, I’d kind of like to add you to my friends. (AT, MS, and NS, I’ve got you three already.) I’d be interested to see what other people are sharing. Also, if you don’t know what Google [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA When people (or forms) ask me how tall I am, I’ve been quoting 5’11″ as my height since the end of high school. Occasionally, I’d bemoan that I just missed the 6 foot mark. The other day I realized that I hadn’t double-checked this height in about 7 years. So, out of [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA I’m a little late in writing about this, but last Sunday my mom watched my grandmom while I went up to North Jersey to watch the international friendly between the national soccer teams of the USA and Argentina. It was the second part of my weekend of sports day trips, and I [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA In addition to last week being my grandmom’s 90th birthday, it also marked six months since I returned to the (part-time) workforce. You probably know by now that I spend every Wednesday night in DC, while we pay a woman to take care of my grandmother in NJ. As I’ve said a [...]
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