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Update on Alyssa

For those that aren't aware, Alyssa has spent the last three days in the hospital. She went to the doctor last Thursday after having three straight days of diarrhea. The doc recommended we change her formula and supplement her regular feedings with Pedialite to maintain hydration.

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Update 4/15/10
Issa has been home now and on a new regimen of treatment for about two weeks. She is improving but not yet cured. A follow-up appointment with the GI specialist this week revealed less than adequate weight gain.

Luca Furnare

a.k.a. Luca Man Child
a.k.a. The LMC
a.k.a. El Jefe
a.k.a. Supervisor LMC

Luca and I met in college where we worked together at the bookstore in the computer department. If Apple really wanted to get serious about making a "Mac Versus PC" commercial, they would have contacted us. For some reason at our daily "Tea Time" at Cal Poly, our friend Travis gave Luca the monikor "Luca Man Child", and from then on he became "The LMC". Luca was the first employee of SLO Delivery, a fictional offshoot of SG Enterprises specializing in fraternity initiation deliveries for Alpha Rho Chi. His valiant efforts earned him the title "El Jefe" (and he calls me "El Presidente" since I am the President of SLO Delivery's parent company).

When the LMC turned 21, he and I took a road trip to Vegas. In 2004, just before I started working for Boeing, we decided another "road trip" was in order and we both met in Seattle (via plane). At the time, he was finishing his graduate degree in Idaho, but he would soon be making Seattle his permanent home and begin working as an Agricultural Inspector for Customs and Border Protection in the Emerald City. After his promotion to Supervisor in 2009, he became "Supervisor LMC". Throughout the years, whenever my business travels take me to the Pacific Northwest, I take great comfort and joy in knowing The LMC awaits me. A good time always follows.

Shannon Genovese

a.k.a. Tinkerbell

a.k.a. Noner

For some reason I went through a phase where I liked to change the sounds of vowels from long to short and short to long.  So, for awhile, my sister to me was Shanone (pronounced SHAY - NONE).  Eventually that nickname begat a nickname and when I get a phone call from her today, I usually answer "Noner!"  Her official Disney name, however, is Tinkerbell.  Tinkerbell was the fairy with the hot temper that was always flitting about in Peter Pan.  Watch the movie again and, if you know anything about my sister, I think you'll agree we made a good choice.  

Patrick Genovese

a.k.a. Prince Charming

a.k.a. Wacko

When we were growing up, our younger cousins had a hard time saying "Patrick", so they shortened it to "Packo".  Somewhere along the line that turned into "Packo Wacko".  Being the king of acronyms and liking to shorten things, I eventually dropped the Packo.  I still call him Wacko most of the time, but if we're going to get formal or break out the Motorola's, Prince Charming it is.  

Laurie Genovese

a.k.a. Miss Daisy

a.k.a. Daisy

Ever since I learned to drive, my mom has abdicated the privilege to me whenever we go anywhere together. Even if she's dropping me off at the airport, I'll drive there and drop myself off, then she takes the car.  She's also made a bit of a name for herself in the family because whenever she sits in the front passenger seat on a drive, she'll invariably attempt to bring the car to a stop with the imaginary brake pedal in front of her.  Over the years my siblings and I have tried to coach her on how to be a better passenger, after all, her anxiety is unfounded since none of us has ever crashed with her in the car!  Our efforts are evident when, in an effort not to be a distracting "back seat driver", she'll silently tense up her entire body, attempt to slam her foot through the floor, and nonchalantly grab onto the "oh shit" handles as if a giant vacuum cleaner were trying to suck her out of the car.  

If more than two people are riding in the car, we usually put mom in the back seat. Sometimes if it's just the two of us, I'll still put mom in the back seat.  That's why we call her Miss Daisy.  And because Daisy Duck is a Disney character, we aren't even breaking the rules. 

Raymond Genovese

a.k.a. Ray

a.k.a. Cozy Bear

a.k.a. Worst Copilot EVER

Back in the day--which of course was a Wednesday--I was at the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada with my parents and siblings. I had recently purchased some Motorola Talkabout two way radios and this trip to Lake Mohave was to be their first trial. I rode the elevator downstairs to get everyone their morning coffee and pastries. A few floors from the lobby, with an elevator full of people standing around me in my pajamas, a voice crackled over the radio in my hand: "Brer Rabbit this is Cozy Bear come on back".

Where the hell my dad pulled out Brer Rabbit and Cozy Bear is probably best left a mystery. The Cozy Bear part stuck though, and at that moment a Genovese family tradition was born. Since then, anyone who travels with us when we have an occasion to break out the radios (i.e., the lake, Disneyland, etc.) is bestowed a nickname fitting of their personality. The rules state it needs to be a Disney nickname, but there are a few exceptions, the Cozy Bear being one of them.

By the way, Brer Rabbit didn't stick with me.  At some point during that fateful trip, I adopted the name Robin Hood.