http://www.graveerror.net Essays, Prose, and other Digressions Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:20:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While I thought that getting any reading done during my first year of parenthood would be close to impossible, I have actually been able to take advantage of my commute to and from work and my son’s nap time on weekends to get quite a decent amount of reading done. So ... http://www.graveerror.net/2011/12/20/my-year-in-books-2011/ I do apologize for not tending to Grave Error this past year. As I have mentioned already, I am quite busy these days between work and parenthood. Yet it is definitely a shame because not only do I write this blog for you -- my loyal reader (no need to ... http://www.graveerror.net/2011/11/25/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year/ Living abroad for so many years, often times than naught, the unique all American holidays come and go with almost no fanfare. Days like Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday and the Fourth of July. Today I only realized that it was the Fourth of July after coming across the ... http://www.graveerror.net/2011/07/04/the-fourth-of-july-petraeus-and-afghanistan/ Don't mean to be a hater here, but this picture says so much about the present and the future of the Church. As it is not really my religion to critique, I will leave it up to Catholics to editorialize. http://www.graveerror.net/2011/06/28/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/ Now after little over three months of being a father, I would think that what I missed the most from my pre-parenthood days would be alone-time and sleep.  But actually what I miss the most are (in no particular order): Writing Reading Jazz In a sense, I have learned to compensate for each. For ... http://www.graveerror.net/2011/04/20/hard-to-find-the-time/ Sorry to have been hiding here for the past few weeks, but I just had a baby and have some obviously more pressing matters to attend to.I'll to get back up and blogging as soon as possible. http://www.graveerror.net/2011/01/28/daddy-time/ Is blogging dead? Bloggers, including myself, just don’t seem to be writing as much and readers have definitely followed suit by reading less. This is probably due to two factors: over-saturation in the so-called blogosphere and the briefer, less time consuming tweet. As a matter of fact, most of my ... http://www.graveerror.net/2010/12/27/rice-and-coca-cola/ Here in Spain everyone celebrates the Christmas Season all the way up until the Epiphany on January 6th. Nevertheless, instead of letting Christmas drag on, I strictly follow the day-after-Thanksgiving to December 25th schedule. So while I will keep the Christmas decorations up until January 1st (maybe even until January ... http://www.graveerror.net/2010/12/27/time-for-the-piano-trio/   After almost four years of commuting back and forth between Madrid and Paris – with 27 round trip flights in 2010 alone, not including the ones my wife took to Madrid this year – it looks like we have finally settled on and in Madrid. Weather and an air controllers’ strike ... http://www.graveerror.net/2010/12/19/je-tai-aime/ These book vending machines are a nice alternative to the ones that just sell junk food. I have no idea whether they actually make many sales. This one is at the Principe Pio train station in Madrid. There are also a bunch of small libraries in a few of the ... http://www.graveerror.net/2010/12/18/a-book-vending-machines/