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7.30.2005
Megan's a Mommy
 Welcome to the family Cloe Louise! Born 7/29/05 just after 1:00 in the afternoon. 7 lbs. 6 oz. (same as her aunt!) and 20 1/2 in. long She was born with her eyes open and is a very content and very good little baby girl. Mommy & Daddy are doing well and getting adjusted to their new job. More photos here. 7.28.2005
Castles in the Sand
 Following Sarah's lead, here's a set of our photos from the great May/Dahlberg Hilton Head Vacation of 2005. It was a wonderful week, bookended by four looooonng days of car travel, which is the kind of hardcore traveling I haven't done in I don't know how many years. I really thought that two back to back days in the car would be too much for Carl, but he came through with flying colors -- at least until the blanket-and-juice-related meltdown forty-five minutes from home on the way back to Columbus on Sunday.As it turns out, Hilton Head is HOT in the summer. Who knew? (It's not like it's hundreds of miles closer to the equator than Ohio, or that it's on the coast, or that's it's JULY, or anything.) The one day that I played golf, Matt and I were making like the Wicked Witch of the West on the front nine. I'm pretty sure I filled and drank an entire cup of water on every hole. Kind of killed my enthusiasm for doing anything outside of the air conditioning, after that -- I had wanted to rent and ride bikes at some point, but between not really having a schedule conducive to extended bike rides and the sheer physical assault of going outside to slow roast, I don't really feel like I missed anything. Well, except for the beach. We went on Monday morning with the kids, but that was all for us. Carl seemed to enjoy the beach part of the beach, but not so much with the ocean. Don't know if it was the size and scope of the water, the sound of the waves -- which were barely knee-high at all, but to a toddler, might as well have been mountainous walls of water -- whatever it was, he was Out, and we didn't get another chance to try again. Next time, maybe. The backyard pool was much better -- he wasn't completely comfortable with it, but he didn't mind it by the end of the week. I'm half afraid he's going to look at me this week and say, "Swim in the pool?", and I'll have to figure out how to tell him that Mommy and Daddy don't exactly have an in-ground heated pool and jacuzzi sitting in the backyard... So yes, wonderful week, sorry to see it end, but I think we're all happy to be home and getting back into our normal routines. Mostly. (And there's more photos of all sorts of other stuff from the last month or so right here.) 7.27.2005
Just Beachy
7.26.2005
The Already Disheveled Hair Projection
 Hilariously bad English-to-Chinese-to-English captions on a bootleg DVD of STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH. Some foul language, but OH MAN are these funny. The Fifth of November
Looks like the first trailer for V FOR VENDETTA is up.
It looks nice -- I know that V writer Alan Moore has basically turned his back on this one, but I thought I saw most of the original's story beats in the trailer, so if it goes far afield from the source material, it's deeper into the script than the trailer reveals. The problem, I'd say, is with the Wachowskis, who crashed and burned faster than I thought possible after the cultural high of THE MATRIX -- who knows if they'll be able to reign in the impulses that turned RELOADED and REVOLUTIONS into hopelessly talky and noodling snoozefests? And of course, this is probably my favorite thing by Moore, so I hope it's not doomed to join SWAMP THING, FROM HELL, and LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN on the scrap heap of poorly-translated Moore comics (not having seen CONSTANTINE yet, I can't say if that would also be found on the pile or not.) If the collective voice of the Internerd is to be believed, it doesn't look good. 7.25.2005
Vacation, Interrupted
We are back. Normal service will resume this evening, and details to follow.
In the meantime, here's one that never gets old: 
7.21.2005
Harbor
7.20.2005
Lighthouse
7.14.2005
Stairwell
7.10.2005
Sand Trap
7.09.2005
Who's the Man Now Dog?!
7.08.2005
On the Big Board
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C&S Update - A Familial Note
To those members of the C&S Clan (you know who you are) reading this blog :
The staff of Dahlbergcentral has just received word of its official assignment that must be completed prior to your own completion of personal assignment number 1. Said assignment the first is forthcoming as quickly as humanly possible, given the high demands of parenting, lawyering, associating, and general leisuring. That is all. 7.05.2005
 hahahahahahahahahahahaohmanhahahahaha "city of crime" hahahahahahahahahaha Peej, that about killed me this morning. Thanks, pal. 7.02.2005
Rockets' Red Glare
 Via my employment, we had superdeluxeawesome lawn passes for one of the buildings on Civic Center Drive last night -- front row for the Midwest's best fireworks display. And even with our little Kodak, I managed to get some great pictures; I've dumped them into a Flickr slideshow for your viewing pleasure.(While you're at it: there's also pictures from our trip to DC in May and from Memorial Day weekend in southeastern Ohio. I'm really getting to be friends with Flickr...) 7.01.2005
Advice and Consent
This will be everywhere, but I wanted to point out something that caught my eye in today's announcement of Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement:
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said he's been talking to Democratic leader Harry Reid about nominees for a potential vacancy on the Supreme Court but doesn't have any inside information on whom President Bush might nominate. Emphasis mine, of course. Had my mouth been full of coffee, I surely would have done a most impressive spit-take upon seeing the mention of Mel Martinez, former HUD Secretary during President Bush's first term, given his controversial Senate race last year (in which he labeled his Republican primary opponent "the new darling of homosexual extremists") and his perhaps-muddled involvement in the Terry Schiavo Congressional Fiasco this past spring -- not exactly the kind of thoughtful, scholarly public figure one would expect of a nominee to the Supreme Court. Dewine got his JD from Ohio Northern in 1972 and was a prosecuting attorney in Greene County for eight years before his first election as a legislator. No private practice beyond that, so far as I know -- he's either been in the legislative or executive branches of state and federal government since that time. Crapo, at least, was a clerk on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals following his 1977 Harvard JD, but spent less time in practice than Dewine, rising to state senate in 1984. So, without knowing anything personally about these guys' judicial philosophies or legal scholarship or anything else one would expect to talk about in a Supreme Court nomination -- is Reid serious? Getting someone from outside the judicial system is one thing; nominating career politicians to a job that's (supposed to be) outside of partisan politics is something else. Anyone with insight, personal or otherwise, into why any of these folks might be good candidates is invited to respond -- I'm genuinely curious. (I should also note that Reid, as Senate Minority Leader, might as well be suggesting Donald Trump for all the weight I expect his comments to be given by the White House, so this is probably all heavily theoretical and hypothetical anyways...)
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