sometimes i wonder how much i should make this place a record of what i am thinking about or doing in my life. i've never really had a good answer to that, so since i starting this thing i've vacillated wildly between mentioning or at least alluding to my personal life, and limiting my posts to mostly non-personal political rants.
but when something big happens it feels kind of odd to have it go completely unmentioned here. here's the deal: i became an uncle in the past week. except that i'm not sure i have. my sister-in-law and her husband are in china now, jumping through numerous bureaucratic hoops to adopt a baby. i know they're still hoop-jumping right now and so i'm not certain whether we've reached the precise moment when i legally become an uncle yet.
in any event, they picked their daughter up from the orphanage a week ago today. basically every morning for the past week the first thing mrs. noz and i have done when we wake up in the morning is race over to the computer to see if we've gotten any more photos of our new niece (or soon-to-be-niece). it's had a large impact on my life. mrs. noz and her sister are twins and they are close in ways that are hard to clearly articulate here. my sister-in-law's life changing experiences have a profound effect on mrs. noz, which, in turn, impacts me. and that's on top of the usual joy that accompanies becoming a non-responsible relative of a small child.
so there you have it. last week when i was posting very little it wasn't just because i was busy at work. i was even on the internet quite a lot of the time. i was just doing other more important things.
