In the spirit of posing more, and recombining all my interests, I’m sure you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for my thoughts on a few hot topics impacting my favorite sports teams. Here you go:

Jim Harbaugh comes to MichiganWhat an exciting day for Michigan football! I was glad to be off work on Tuesday to be able to watch the press ( Read more... )

I need to catch up with one more travel post on several trips I’ve taken since October. Hopefully these will go back to coming in real time in the future, and you won’t have to be bothered with such a long list.

So, since my last post, I went to:

( Toronto )

I’m woefully behind on travelog posts and I won’t “catch-up” really, that would include a few years of missing posts. I’ve written a few, but not as many place as I’ve gone. But, even though many of you probably don’t read these, I enjoy writing them so I can look back when someone is heading to the same city and asking where I went and what I ( Read more... )

I’ve been doing a bit of traveling, which has contributed to my lack of posts. So now, you get a big summary, right before my next trip.

The goat and I went to Michigan for Thanksgiving week.

We enjoyed a lovely meal at Vinology in Ann Arbor. I had a fantastic venison loin served with quark spaetzle, brussels sprouts, bacon, huckleberries, ( Read more... )

I was going to post this last night, but was distracted by insane cheering. GO BLUE!

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You can't have one without the other.

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Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve done more than weather check-ins, which means this is going to be a really long post. Here’s what I’ve been up to:

( Mongolia )

I wanted to challenge myself a bit with icons (and photoshop in general), so I signed up for history20in20. Here’s my entry for this month!

My subject is Fielding Yost. Since most of you probably don't know him, here’s a short bio (thanks to Wikipedia):
Fielding Harris Yost (April 30, 1871 - August 20, 1946) was an American football player, coach, and ( Read more... )

I have not been posting about much of anything lately, unless it’s transferring book lists or making short comments. It’s been an insane fall at work. (And fall is always crazy for me personally because of, well… football.) I really need a bit more free time ( Read more... )

As you may have surmised from my vaguely worded posts recently, I’ve had a rather hectic last six weeks.

First I headed to Istanbul for work, with a quick stop through in Munich for fun on the way back. I stopped over back in DC just in time for restaurant week before heading to Portland for work ( Read more... )

I’ll post about the entire trip to Michigan again after it’s complete but can I just say how much I missed college football?!? So fantastic to be in that stadium again!