Author Archives: Pat Greene

I will be getting a new laptop soon, probably within the next week.  I will hopefully be posting more then. ****** The laptop is courtesy of the insurance company of the elderly man who ran into me in February.  They … Continue reading →

Me: I’m losing my mind.Rocket Scientist: Where was it the last time you saw it?

I am, in the popular argot, a cheap drunk.  A Really. Cheap. Drunk. At Wellesley, every year the juniors put on a show.  My freshman year, the Junior Show included the line “It takes more than two drinks to change … Continue reading →

I visited my neurologist yesterday.  I have to be evaluated every six months for migraines and to make sure that my tremors are benign and that I do not in fact have Parkinson’s.  They have been determined to be “essential … Continue reading →

Quote of the day, from the Red Headed Menace. who is vegetarian: “the velociraptors should eat me, I’m grain-fed. I taste better.”*Yes, we were discussing what to do in case of velociraptor attack.  That’s just the sort of family we … Continue reading →

Believe it or not, I was a member of the Environmental Law Society at Stanford.  (More than that, I was managing editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.*) I was, in many ways, an odd duck to end up in … Continue reading →

As a result of Jan finally having completely bit the dust, I have no access to my music.  Damn. So I have been listening to a lot of Pandora, especially on the Droid.  The Mazda’s sound system has likewise gone … Continue reading →

I turned fifty yesterday. That number feels odd.  Unlike forty, where I relished the idea that I did not have to worry about whether people liked me or not anymore, fifty is disturbing.  I am not sure what its significance … Continue reading →

I am still alive. Really. I am not spending all my time playing Angry Birds, either.  I am writing.  What I am writing –  and thinking through in preparation – for writing is very personal, and not really for public … Continue reading →

I am typing this from my new Droid phone.* *And just how annoyed do you think the makers of Kool-Ade get about this saying? In Jonestown, Jim Jones used Flavor-Ade. At least “going postal” refers to an actual incident involving … Continue reading →

The Not-So-Little Drummer Boy attends a college which does not hand out grades but instead gives the students evaluations at the end of every term.*  He sent us his evals for the winter and fall terms.  Among the gems were: … Continue reading →

As a parent, one of my raisons d’etre is to embarrass and discomfit my teenage children.  Talking about sex does not work — they’re modern kids, and are more or less comfortable with those sorts of discussions, as long as … Continue reading →

Unions have been much in the news lately.  The efforts of conservatives in places such as Wisconsin to dismantle worker protections — and the support with which those efforts are met — are another example of the very short historical … Continue reading →

Last night I saw one of my very favorite bands in the world, Great Big Sea*, in concert in Petaluma  It was amazing. Great Big Sea’s music, when listened to on CD is… okay.  Their renditions of traditional Newfoundland and … Continue reading →

I have a new external hard drive.  Jan is sort of back, but flaky, so I have been backing things up externally.  The external hard drive I had was named Francisco (after Goya, natch). It was a good drive… Up … Continue reading →