This is my baby!

Why does my baby look so happy?

She's at Fenway and the Red Sox are beting the Yankees.

From left, evilnicola, rocksryan, nazrynn and blaecstan.

Look at the guy behind Niki sneaking into the picture.

Looks like Dwarf.

Saturday morning: Semi-long weekend . . .

1. Other than a two-hour spaghetti dinner I have to attend tonight, I am off until 9 a.m. Tuesday. This will be the last real week of work on the ACT grant, then I will start my summer youth employment duties.

2. What's really cool is that I had arranged Monday as a "Flex Day," because of the extra hours I had to work this week. I was hoping I would be able to interview somewhere that day. I got a call Wednesday, and I will be interviewing for a very cool and spiffy job running a grant. I am really excited, because I really have the chops for it, especially now. I also should have a phone interview with the publisher of the oldest weekly newspaper in Vermont this week. (Note: If anyone can get a copy of "The Vermont Standard," which is published in Woodstock, please let me know.)

3. We are listening to a couple CDs of dance music from Ken Burns' "The War."

4. My wife is addicted to lolcats. We are also geeks.




My immediate thought was "That's the box Muad'Dib had to stick his hand into." I said that, and Alethea started cackling.

5. Two huge mugs of Ethiopian Yrgecheffe later, and my eyes are wide open and my leg is bouncing. Half-a-mug, and Alethea is bpuncing around the house and headed across the street to the Farmers' Market (and other errands).

6. Matt Baumgartner, the genius behind Wolff's Biergarten, has a blog at the Albany Times-Union. He doesn't always talk about the beer industry, but I found this one, which focuses on the Biergarten to be fascinating.

7. I was  thinking about this earlier, so it is not in repsonse to anyone's posting:

So there are questions in the Iranian election.

As a nation, I do not think the U.S. can criticize anyone's elections any more without the words pot, kettle and black coming up.