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  • The Faranda weekend wanderings

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    We had an interesting weekend, going out with friends last night, and visiting JFK and Stepinac high schools today, as we try and size up Joe’s options for school next year. Saturday night was Frodo’s in Pleasantville with our friends, Mike and Karen Riner, Paul and Doreen Novotny and Dennis and Denise Cannon. Frodo’s was…

  • Brigid and Trinity

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    This is from Wednesday – as the guinea pig gets a treat (carrot) from Brigid. Trinity has a different personality from Vindabel, our prior guinea pig. While all guinea pigs are flighty and shy, she is much more adventurous then Vindabel was. If you put Vindabel on the floor, she wouldn’t move. Trinity would take…

  • Great picture from the Hubble telescope

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    This is pretty cool… Yahoo! News caption: This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters. (NASA,…

  • CAT scan today

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    Got to Sloan Kettering on York Ave. a little late, and then found out the scan was scheduled at the Third Ave and 64th St. satellite building, and not at the 67 St. main building. I had trouble actually finding the office (it’s between 2nd and 3rd Ave. and takes up the whole basement of…

  • An interesting debate on Irish radio

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    Amy Welborn is a Catholic author with a popular weblog. She has linked to an interesting debate on Irish radio about ten days ago, between the evolutionary biologist and virulent atheist Richard Dawkins, and Catholic journalist David Quinn. open book: Debating Dawkins Dawkins is about the most well known propagandist for atheism and against religion…

  • Health update – CAT scan tomorrow

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    I will have my first scan since December tomorrow, in anticipation of my appointment next week with the lymphoma guru, Dr. Zelenetz. This is a routine follow-up and I anticipate a negative scan. My appointment with Zelenetz is next Werdnesday, the 25th. It will be intersting to see if my blood counts are any higher…

  • The Pope on Judas Iscariot

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    Pope Benedict has been giving a series of Wednesday afternoon talks over the last few months about each of the 12 Apostles.  ZENIT has a very fascinating discussion of his final talk today, about Judas Iscariot. Here is a link to the actual talk ZENIT News Agency–The World Seen from Rome and here is the…

  • Enlightened policies in France fuel mini baby boom

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    It’s only a mini-boom, but still pretty cool. Good article. As Europe Grows Grayer, France Devises a Baby Boom – washingtonpost.com When Staub delivered twins last December — her third and fourth children — the nation not only increased their tax deductions and child allowances, the government-owned French train system offered 40 percent discounts off…

  • The past weekend football and camping with Tim

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    The past weekend was very, very busy. See the last post for the Harry Chapin Memorial Run story on Sunday. Joe spent Saturday doing his paintball thing with a dozen other boys in the woods near one of his classmates houses. I spent most of Saturday and into Sunday with Tim.  First at his football…

  • Sunday’s Harry Chapin run

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    My town, Croton on Hudson, holds the Harry Chapin Memorial Run against Hunger every year around this time. It’s held in Croton possibly because his record agent lived here.Welcome to Harry Chapin Harry Chapin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia was an entertainer and singer (“Cat’s in the the Cradle,” “Taxi”) from Long Island who was…