Mr. Horrible

"Would it be okay with you

if we wrote a reminder

of things we'll forget to do today

otherwise

Using a green magic marker

if it's alright

on the back of your head?"

-TMBG

I am still in a sort of a denial that it's NYE and I'm not with the BLD.

We'll probably go to bed at 9:30.

Have a good one.

Betsucco Cards

So I have now become a Mazzucco family card fan with the two quotes that made me laugh outloud and scare my father.

"I don't care what he costs, Mike. We need LaDanian Tomlinson on our fantasy football team."

And...

"Daddy, do you like cottage cheese? No! Have you ever had cottage cheese? No. Then how do you know you don't like cottage cheese?" I think the Mazzucco offspring have continued the BLD fight for truth, justice and an open minded pursuit of taste. =)

On a totally unrelated note...I have also learned that "Mind-Eraser" shots do work!

Happy New Year!

New Job?

I have a job offer in Audubon, PA. It looks like it's about 1 hour from my house. And I have to drive the Blue Route and/or Schuylkill. Any thoughts?

BLD98 Brewery

Who's in?
I'm thinking Big Green Stout, Queen of Putrescence Porter, Fayerweather Lager, Dread Pirate Pale Ale, etc... We could HQ in Jon's house because Cleveland rocks.

Addresses?

Anyone have an address for Doug or Cool Mo Dee? If so, could you send it to me? Don't post it here as we don't want to attract any stalkers.

Cool, swell.

Turns out that putting ice in bags in socks, tying the socks together on the top, and holding it on with a stretchy velcro-type thing is really cool, and in more ways than one. Looks swell while bringing down swelling.

Back to the Richmond

This Walsh clan is moving back to Richmond in June. I will be teaching at the University of Richmond Law School. My subjects will be constitutional law and two or three subjects to be named later. The law school hiring process required a commitment before we will know for sure about the match. But Shannon's interviews at the Medical College of Virginia ("MCV") Department of Emergency Medicine went very well. And we don't really have a backup plan. So it must work.

wisdom teeth extraction

Following a total breakdown in informed consent, I agreed to have all of my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow morning. I've just been looking at some of the sites that come up after searching "wisdom teeth extraction recovery" . . . and it's not pretty. My next post will probably be made under the influence of narcotics.

The reason I refer to a total breakdown in informed consent is that nobody I've talked to has been able to supply me with the most basic information necessary to make a proper cost/benefit analysis. Put aside the pain and recovery, and think for a moment about the possibility of nerve damage. Not an insignificant risk. Is nerve damage more likely to happen than some bad thing that results from keeping the teeth in? Nobody knows. Or if they know, they're not telling. What bad things can happen from keeping the teeth in? Many bad things. What is the likelihood? Nobody knows. I received some information -- information that did not add up to anything helpful. And then I gave consent. Is that informed consent? I think not.

Too Much Beer?

I've been meaning to post for the last couple of days.  Earlier in the week, I had a dream which seemed to last for the entire night.  We were all gathered at my and Hillary's house, just hanging out, but I spent the entire time in my basement trying to pick out the perfect beer for everyone there.  

The best part of the dream was when I found this cool beer bottle in the shape of a friar or monk.  It even had a built-in straw in the general shape of a halo (though I don't know why you would want to drink beer from a straw).  Anyway, I remember racing up the stairs with it, so excited to give it to Josh that I couldn't contain myself.  

In the dream, you were very appreciative, Josh.

Am I the only one

who cries while reading stories to my kids?

Rob, I need some Stanford Intel

Bubba (Rob)
Jay suggested that I contact you, but I don't have your contact info. I need to get to Stanford from Birmingham (yay!)...this is going to be easy (right.), I can tell...especially since I'm really not sure which airport to fly into (SFO?) and whether I should rent a car, ride a train, etc? Could you please give me some advice?
Thanks, dude.
Forest.

Meet Me in St. Louis?

Does anyone know anything about whether St. Louis is a nice place to live? We are likely to end up in Richmond again after going through this law school hiring and medical residency thing, although we may stay here in the Philadelphia area as well. The latest twist is a possibility of heading out to Washington University in St. Louis. I don't see why we'd end up falling that way, although I'm sure the cost of living is good, and many people assume I'm from the Midwest anyhow, so I might as well be.

BLD98 Blog Turned 6...

... and nobody noticed. Can you believe this blog has been around for over 6 years? It looks like Oct 6, 2002 was the birthday according to Walsho's first post. Keep 'em comin' ladies and gents.

New Years in July

For those of you who may have been wondering, I haven't really dropped off the face of the earth, it only seems like it!  (Though sometimes I wonder myself because Indonesia is pretty much the edge, in more ways than one.)  

Yes, the rumors are true that we have a baby girl on the way!  We affectionately refer to her as Bug, and if we don't manage to come up with a real name, which is a serious concern at this point, we might call her that for the rest of her life.  She is due on the 25th of January.  I'll be "moving" to Singapore the day after Christmas to wait out the last 4 weeks or so.  (No one will let me get on an airplane after that and if she does decide to arrive a little early, we'll be glad to be there.)  Jason will come on weekends until the baby is born and then stay for a few weeks thereafter.  Once Bug has a clean bill of health and a passport, probably about a month after she is born, we can bring her home to Jakarta.  (For anyone a little rusty on his/her Southeast Asian geography, Singapore is about an hour and a half by plane from Jakarta.)

The good news is that we know a good Constitutional lawyer who will help us convince the Supreme Court that Bug is eligible to be President someday even though she was born abroad.  

So, I would propose Singapore for NYE, but it's admittedly not very close to Kansas.  Dan is correct, that I've secretly been scheming to move our New Year's Eve tradition to the summer time.  For this year, it gives us Greenwalds a fighting chance of being able to attend and will give everyone the chance to meet the several next generation BLDers who are arriving between January and April of 09.  Plus, you all saw each other this past June and I know everyone needs a bit longer of a break from Lincoln.    

I will follow Dan's orders and begin sorting something out for July  - residency, rookie draft and international flight considerations included.

One last poll before I sign off:  Do Xingang, China and Jakarta, Indonesia look or sound anything alike on paper?  I don't think so either.  But somehow all of our worldly possessions got unloaded in Xingang a few weeks ago.  Now they must clear Chinese customs before they can continue on their journey to Jakarta.  This is only slightly better than if the MSC Lucy had sunk somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  Our well-weathered container has been on it's way here in one way or another since we called for it in July.  I can't tell you how unprepared we are to bring a baby home in 8 weeks.  I'm thinking about going out and buying a box of diapers just so I don't feel completely helpless.  Those of you who know me should compliment Jason for managing to stay sane despite living with me through this. 

Miss you guys like crazy.  This is the hardest time of the year to be so far from home.