"Remember, remember the Fifth of November,The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,I know of no reasonWhy the Gunpowder TreasonShould ever be forgot.Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intentTo blow up the King and Parli'ment.Three-score barrels of powder belowTo prove old England's overthrow;By God's providence he was catch'd
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Today is the third anniversary of the third and final wedding ceremony Dana and I undertook in our years-long, ongoing adventure together.

This is the first image that pops up on Google when I enter the search term "leather anniversary."


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Yesterday my dad gave me a few bananas along with a bag of other food items that my mom had prepared on Sunday...we were supposed to go out to Lisle for dinner, but failed to make it due to my wife accidentally pulling some muscles in her back while doing some aggressive spring cleaning ( Read more... )

I know that the moon is a large, spherical hunk of rock that orbits the Earth. I know that the phases of said rock are merely the perception, from a distance, of the way the light from the sun strikes the surface of the rock as it orbits our planet ( Read more... )

( Chicago. )

Then there was that time I fell out of love with autumn ( Read more... )

The second anniversary is, traditionally, cotton or china.

We had none of the above. Instead there were flowers, dinner, ice cream, and the first half of The Constant Gardener, as well as a really awesome caricature of yours truly trying to decide between his normal clothing and the Batsuit (seriously, you have to see it ( Read more... )

This brief foray out of radio silence is as a favor to my wife, who claims she has a metaphorical gun placed to my head and demands that I ask for help from my wide variety of blog contacts.

Demands!

Understand: she has just burned through two full seasons of Lost. In, I think, a week and a half ( Read more... )

This past weekend, on August 12, Dana and I celebrated the anniversary of our third wedding ceremony, which will likely be the date we mark most prominently...since at that point, we had decided we were "done" getting married and ready to start being married.


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I've written pretty vaguely about my impending leap into the ranks of marriagehood, and written almost nothing at all about the wedding planning. Part of that, however, was because there was a highly unusual amount of planning to be done, and very little time to discuss it at length ( Read more... )