This weekend, Al & Lori came over with their boy — stayed over on Sunday night with us before heading back home to Philly. We had a great time with them — played at home, walked to the Fire Station (pictures of them sitting in the fire truck to follow), played at the park — a lot of playing, basically. Both boys were so good natured & happy that I just had an incredibly good time with our families. Everywhere you looked, there was a little boy running around & smiling. Pretty great.
[we've been watching The Wire on HBO for a while lately -- this season is all about high school kids, which the older youths call "their shorties". as a result, i've been calling Sam "my shorty" a lot lately. cracks me up.]

Some followup thoughts on my SOPA post
Feb 3, 23:21 › Travis: Man, SOPA and PIPA just drive me crazy. I am shocked Jan 11, 17:22 › John Stack: Have you considered #OPEN? Personally, it is as far Jan 11, 16:51 › Brad Feld: Fantastic John. I couldn't have said it better myself Jan 10, 15:34 › Robert Kaiser: "What I think we really need to figure out is how