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I just found out that the caterer from our wedding is being prosecuted by the Federal government for hiring illegal aliens.  In response, I want to give this caterer my highest praise.  If you need any kind of event catered in the San Diego area, I highly recommend The French Gourmet.

In my ongoing quest to catch up with my photo backlog, here are the photos from when Yelena's best childhood friend and their mothers came to visit last year.

The New York Times published an op-ed by Gail Collins, complaining about the Governor of Alabama proclaiming April as Confederate History Month, and more generally about Southern revisionism.  I think Ms. Collins is slipping into the classic partisan mode of taking certain things for granted and being unable to fathom the possibility that the other side might see it differently.  True, I do believe the current socio-political chasm in this country is mostly the fault of the conservatives who hunt for wedge issues, but this type of myopia doesn't help.  The truth is, the state vs. federal debate was far from closed at the end of the Civil War, and legitimately lives on today.

Yelena & I left Nathan in San Diego with the grandparents for the week.  Yelena's got work to distract her, but I'm just sitting around the house all day.  (Job hunting doesn't take my mind off the missing kid.)  So I compensate by going through my photo backlog.  Here are two new Nathan galleries:

Back in time two years, that is.  I've finally finished my backlog of Civil War photos with my Knight's Ferry gallery from 2008: