I'm an uncle!

hmmm... I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that! :-) Well, congratulations are in order to my brother and sister-in-law, they now have a new baby girl! And I have a niece to whom I will soon be teaching the best ways to bug her parents... hehe. Just kidding Jon and Tara!

weariness...

I am not sure whether it's my job, my health, or some other factor, but I seem to get tired more easily these days. I find myself really getting bogged down by sleepiness around 3 pm in the afternoon, and then again around 9 pm at night. But if I keep going, I usually get a second wind. Hmmm. Maybe I need more exercise. Well, the weather's getting nice again in Seattle, so now's the time!

this is a great quote...

"I find this so unsavory... [our government is] going out and killing people around the world in order to spread democracy, and what are we spreading? A form of government based on how much money you can raise from rich people."

(Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's "Hardball," on the record-breaking campaign fundraising figures for the 2008 presidential election.)