Janie is away for the week and I’m left home alone to look after the cats and reassure them that the noise we heard at 130am? It’s just the neighbors, not some stranger trying to break in and murder us all. The only real problem is that Janie didn’t arrange for someone to look after me.
Last night I decided to use our new barbecue to roast some poblano peppers for a little chili relleno-type dinner. I turned the grill up high and spent several minutes blackening the …

(Thanks George)

Last night my mother and I attended a panel discussion on The Human Genome Project at the University of Washington. The above picture is of two panel participants, Leena Peltonen of the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute and Bill Gates III of Microsoft and Bob Waterston, Chair of Genome Sciences at UW, who was sort of in charge of the event in some way and who is responsible for not letting the moderator ask the multiple questions I submitted on whether or not Mr. Gates would be willing to help …

Look, a horse pony!
A what?
A horse pony!
*silence*
Wait, no. A police horse.