Category: Personal News

Dana has been get­ting quite confused–it seems that every morn­ing she wakes up to find some­one new in the house.

Four nights ago Andrew spent the night. Three nights ago it was Katie. Two nights ago it was Will & Jen Kli­er (inci­den­tal­ly, I helped them set up a new Word­Press blog while they were here: TheK­liers).

And in that whole mix we went out to lunch twice with alum­ni: Gareth and Eliz­a­beth.

She’s warmed up to every­one pret­ty quick­ly, but I sus­pect that today she’ll be hap­pi­er since this morn­ing arrives with­out strangers and we’re not plan­ning to trav­el any­where.

I have just added a few new pho­tos of Dana to the pho­to gallery. They do not do her jus­tice, she is tru­ly cute and fun­ny.

There’s a few small things I’ve been mean­ing to post for a while, but that I just haven’t got­ten around to:

One of our stu­dents, Alan Asbeck, was fea­tured on tele­vi­sion for a patent appli­ca­tion involv­ing a wall-climb­ing robot. How cool is that?

My pas­tor has a blog now: check out Scott Aught­mon at Ran­dom Ram­blings of a Church Gath­er­er.

In fact, more and more of my friends are blog­ging.

• Earl Creps
• Curt Har­low
• Greg Davis (my broth­er)
• Andrew Wright
• Nathaniel Rice actu­al­ly has two: a sil­ly one and a seri­ous one.
• Nic­ho­lette Lock­wood
• Noble Bow­man
• Steve Small­wood
• Emi­ly Robin­son (our neigh­bor)
• Jim­my Lim
• Yee Lyn Chan

And those are just peo­ple that I actu­al­ly have a real-life, 3D rela­tion­ship with. If you count peo­ple I’ve met at con­fer­ences (such as Andrew Carea­ga) or in pass­ing (like Mark Bat­ter­son), the list would be ridicu­lous­ly longer.

For the record, today is Paula’s birth­day. Feel free to email or call her with good wish­es.

I love you, Paula–have a great day!

My in-laws are on a cruise to Hawaii, and their cruise ship is cur­rent­ly on a day excur­sion.

Where do they go?

Wal-Mart.

For the record, this is not an aber­ra­tion. Once we were all in New Orleans togeth­er and they decid­ed we would go eat at Den­ny’s.

Wal-Mart in Hawaii and Den­ny’s in New Orleans. My in-laws ARE red-state Amer­i­ca.

I don’t know if I’ve ever men­tioned this on my web­site, but I’m on the Face­book.

I bring this up for two rea­sons:

1. If you’re a new stu­dent com­ing to Stan­ford feel free to scope us (Chi Alpha) out online. Also check xaStanford.org and Chi Alpha on the Face­book. Feel free to join our Face­book group with­out any sense of long-term oblig­a­tion.
2. If I’ve met you at a con­fer­ence or some­thing you can feel free to add me as a Face­book friend. Just do a glob­al search for Glen Davis at Stan­ford (the glob­al search link is at the top of the page under the fa in face­book).

I’ve been mean­ing to men­tion this for a while, but my broth­er is half-blind in Bangkok right now. He’s on a mis­sion trip and got some sort of infec­tion behind his eye­ball (yuck).

It sounds like he’s going to be A‑OK, but I’m sure it’s quite dis­turb­ing to fall ill in anoth­er coun­try. Espe­cial­ly a non-West­ern one.

On the plus side, he had trav­el insur­ance and so every­thing is paid for. It’s far bet­ter for him finan­cial­ly than it would have been in Amer­i­ca. And what­ev­er he has isn’t some­thing he got in Thailand–it was devel­op­ing before he left.

Any­way, he should be com­ing back this week­end. Until then, I’ll keep think­ing about Mur­ray Head­’s One Night In Bangkok.

Dana (who has new pho­tos up on our gallery, although the one you see is from the Chi Alpha @ Stan­ford gallery) has been devel­op­ing more and more of a demand­ing per­son­al­i­ty late­ly.

The one that amus­es me the most con­cerns her cere­al. She has a bag of Chee­rios that con­tains some dried straw­ber­ries and blue­ber­ries. She’s decid­ed that she likes those much more than the lit­tle toroids, and so she’s begin eat­ing just the fruit and then scream­ing at us in the hopes that we will pro­duce more dried fruit. In the event that we don’t imme­di­ate­ly bring forth said fruit, she begins scat­ter­ing her Chee­rios over the floor.

She’s also very par­tic­u­lar about when she wants to be picked up.

All in all, it’s very charm­ing. It can get drain­ing, but it’s real­ly quite charm­ing.

When I returned from church today I was gen­uine­ly shocked to find a house full of stu­dents wait­ing to wish me a hap­py birth­day.

I was touched.

Also, I got one of the coolest gifts I’ve got­ten in a long time. One of my stu­dents took a pic­ture of me play­ing with Dana, devel­oped it her­self, and framed it. It’s the kind of pho­to I’ll prob­a­bly wind up keep­ing on my desk until I don’t have a desk any­more.

Thanks to every­one for the Apples To Apples game, to Jin for bak­ing the cakes, to Desir­ae for shop­ping, and to Karen for the pho­to. Thanks to Paula for orga­niz­ing the whole decep­tive shindig and to who­ev­er did the dec­o­rat­ing. I’m sure oth­er peo­ple did things I don’t know about, and I’m grate­ful to them as well.

It was just great.

As a ser­vice to my friends and fam­i­ly, I glad­ly pro­vide the fol­low­ing birth­day wish­lists:

Glen’s Ama­zon Wish­list (most­ly books, although some oth­er stuff is there as well)

Glen’s Gen­er­al Wish­list (stuff not for sale on Ama­zon)

As always, these are just my every­day “I want to get these some­day” lists. They haven’t been espe­cial­ly con­coct­ed for my birth­day or any­thing. So some things might seem odd. Or even bizarre.