4.30.2008
A Conversation with A Father-To-Be
Who: how's [your pregnant wife]?
Him: good, ready to have the baby
Him: she's tired and tired of being pregnant, sleeping poorly and generally uncomfortable
Who: god i bet
Who: with how tall i am, i think im going to be a whale when im pregnant
Who: maybe ill break 200 lbs
Him: Everyone needs a goal
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4.28.2008
Kookie
A few weeks ago, a marketing woman from the Doubletree downtown brought me delicious chocolate chip cookies in a nice tin. I am alone in my capitol office most of the time, except for photographers who change out daily. Occasionally I'd offer a cookie to a photog. But almost everyday I would hit that tin for a sweet treat of my own.



The other day I returned to the tin for a familiar cookie. I opened it up and found this:



I am now asking for handwriting samples from all photogs who come into the office, because I'm gonna track down this clever cookie monster, mark my words.
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4.26.2008
Hooked on Phonics
Which is worse, misspelling the word "definitely" by spelling it "definately" -- or totally destroying the word by spelling it "defiantly"? I can't decide which is more offensive.
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4.16.2008
The Purge, Part 12

If you are a new reader, The Purge is a meandering series on open government -- on state government email retention policies, in particular. I haven't updated The Purge since January, so here's a brief recap:

The Purge started in the early days of this blog, when I read that Missouri Governor Matt Blunt took a bunch of heat for his office's policy of deleting emails every two weeks. Which led me to start a journey on this platform, asking questions about the Texas retention policy. What did we learn? Texas state agencies each get to set their own retention policies, so long as they follow the Texas Public Information Act.

What is the Texas governor's policy? Emails get purged every seven days. But -- employees of the office are asked to save the emails they think are considered public records.

The Purge has more recently become a chronicle of the odyssey of John Washburn.

Wisconsin computer whiz/open records advocate John Washburn read the first Purge entry, and began a quest for all the emails in the office of Governor Rick Perry starting in November, when he programmed a twice-weekly request for emails from four-day periods. But he was priced out -- the emails cost thousands of dollars to process, according to the Governor's office.

Washburn did receive four days worth of emails, which led to a few stories. But he also retained notable First Amendment attorney Joe Larsen, who helped filed a complaint to Travis County DA Ronnie Earle's office. Today, the AP's April Castro learns Earle's office has rejected Washburn's complaint. Excerpted:

Larsen, who argues that the e-mail deletion policy is in violation of Texas public information laws, said he'll take the complaint and request for an injunction to Attorney General Greg Abbott for review.

In a letter to Larsen on Tuesday, Greg Cantrell, Travis County assistant district attorney in the Public Integrity Unit, said the office will not move forward with an injunction against Perry "based on our review of information we received from the Governor's Office."

Larsen complained that the prosecutors appeared to have "accepted everything the governor's office told them" with no independent investigation.

Calls to Cantrell and District Attorney Ronnie Earle were not immediately returned.

"Cantrell agreed that the preservation of this information was important," Larsen said. "But in my conversation with him, the gravity of loss of information does not appear to have been matched by any gravity at the D.A.'s office."

Perry's e-mail policy requires that individual staffers determine which e-mails should be considered public records and print or save them within seven days before they can be deleted. Under the law, only correspondence considered "transitory" -- that with no public interest, such as someone making plans for lunch -- are not considered public records.

"There's no way these people, who have daily responsibilities, also have time to be printing these e-mails and making sure they're being stored properly," Larsen said.

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Needles
Got the results back from my allergy skin testing, which I finally resorted to after rubbing out half my eyelashes due to my daily allergies. Three boxes of Kleenex a week is also making for a lot of trash around my room.

So, Dr. Reddy looked at my results and said I was "basically allergic to everything". And he wondered why I hadn't gotten this done way earlier. Among my allergic triggers:

Dog
Cat
Ash
Cedar
Oak
Elm
Maple
Mesquite
Willow
Tumbleweeds
Assorted weeds
Ragweed
Bermuda Grass
Johnson Grass
Dust mite
Mouse

But I did test negative for cockroach. Apparently I can hang out with those, no problem.
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4.13.2008
Sex, Coming Soon
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4.10.2008
What I Have Been Doing Besides Blogging on 67 Degrees
- A Felicity marathon thanks to NetFlix (omigod, Stiles is Ben! Ben is Stiles!)
- Mommy's visit
- Destroying my front lawn (I can't explain random brown patches)
- Trying to get Saidee to stop licking her girl parts
- Entering into probably unethical bets about a recent runoff, in which I won a free lunch
- Pimping out Little Lost Robot's haiku post on my political blog
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4.01.2008
What Happened To Your Face, Woman?
Um, remember Lara Flynn Boyle, from Twin Peaks and The Practice? Here's a recent picture of her. All I gotta say is, WTF? I'm not sure this can be attributed to plastic surgery, cause aren't facelifts supposed to make your face tighter, not saggier? Something ain't right.
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