Events

The splash of sunlight on Parker's face makes me think he's probably a pretty happy dog, despite the crate: He got some additional training this week, mostly a review of the basics (heel, sit, down, stay), but with an emphasis on duration. So I'm proud to report he can now stay for 10 minutes while I kick a tennis ball around him. Inside he'll wait almost 45 minutes before complaining. Really, though, I needed the reveiw. I've been too lax, it seems, allowing him to get away with a lot of bad behavior....

Congress has passed legislation creating a national registry of people with ALS: The legislation would establish the first ever national patient registry of people with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, to be administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The registry would collect information leading to the cause, treatment and cure of the deadly neurological disease that took the life of baseball legend Lou Gehrig in 1941. In tangentially-related news, Saturday's...

My body doesn't know if I got up this morning at 7 or midnight. I can't decide whether or not I'm hungry. And because I neglected to check email for two days, I had 980 messages totalling over 600 MB (one of my friends sent me the same...photos...four...times), of which 650 were spam. I will now collect my dog.

Amsterdam & Brussels

Train from Milan, Italy to Basel, Switzerland

I'm traveling this week. Three guesses where: So far it's been great. It only rained a bit on Thursday. Today I was on a train most of the day, as I will be tomorrow. Exhausting but fun. More later.