Author Archives: Brian Alvey

Victor is just over one now and he says a few words that we can make out: ball, good girl (for doggy), cookie and a bunch more. For “kitty cat” he makes kissing noises. He must have seen his grandma Jackie doing that. Going up the stairs the other night he put together his firstContinue reading “Baby’s first sentence”

I’m not a Colts fan, but I have to love how Peyton Manning obsessively prepares for games. Passion + preparation + execution. The AP recap of their victory over a Denver Broncos defense that was specifically designed to stop Peyton’s Colts included this quote about his off-season work ethic: “When you’re throwing against Bailey and Williams, that’sContinue reading “Monday morning quarterback report”

There was a touching moment at breakfast the other day when I explained to Jack how we love his cousins and we’re good to them, but not to worry because we love him and Victor more and that all parents love their own kids the most. I asked him if he understood what I meantContinue reading “Connecting with your children”

We lost a great cat yesterday, the best black cat that ever crossed my path. Hah, he would have gotten a kick out of that. He loved my puns. All of our pets do, but Jordan had a real soft spot for them. Jordan was 16. He lived a good, long life. He wasn’t thrilledContinue reading “Jordan’s crossing”

Victor was born on September 12, one year ago. That’s month 9, day 12. We went to the Yankees game last night. They scored 9 runs in the first inning and they added three more for an even 12 in their rout. In the middle of the sixth inning, they flashed a happy birthday messageContinue reading “Numbers game”

“I’m not walking past that.” Great night in NYC everyone.

Since we moved to AOL, we have covered something like seven Steve Jobs keynotes or events of that magnitude. Each time we’ve had some kind of horrible outage, almost all of them due to network problems. To be fair, we didn’t handle keynotes well on the pair of Windows servers we were using before weContinue reading “Blogsmith turns a corner”

I was told two rules about editors when I joined BusinessWeek: If any of them actually knew what they were doing, they would be millionaires from playing the stock market. By the time something reaches the cover of BusinessWeek, it has already peaked and it’s on the way down. Of course, both of those rules wereContinue reading “BusinessWeek for criminals”

We got Jack a new betta fish today. I wanted to name him either “Finn Again” or “Finnn” with three n’s. Each new fish would just add another “n.” When Jack said he wanted “to call him Finn again,” I couldn’t resist mentioning my idea for his name. So his nickname is Finn, but hisContinue reading “Go fish”

Jack and I were heading off somewhere and I asked him to go give Niki a kiss. So he blew her a kiss. I wanted to make him actually go over to her to say goodbye so I told him he needed to give her a hug. He crossed his arms and blew into theContinue reading “Fight clever with clever”