Two champagne glasses of milk, for Becky's and my traditional New Year's milk toast, sit on the Zaks' living room table in Arizona, while Times Square begins its countdown to 2009 on the TV in the background.
Happy New Year!
Two champagne glasses of milk, for Becky's and my traditional New Year's milk toast, sit on the Zaks' living room table in Arizona, while Times Square begins its countdown to 2009 on the TV in the background.
"Far above the Ephel Duath in the West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach." --J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm a 27-year-old attorney in Denver, Colorado. I studied journalism at USC and law at Notre Dame, and I used to blog as the "Irish Trojan." I have a wife, Becky, and a baby daughter, whose blog nickname is "Loyette." I like politics, astronomy, meteorology, college football, college basketball, computers and technology, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and lots of other nerdy stuff.