Got back late last night from a week down in the Orlando area of Florida. My friend Gloria rented a huge house down there for her birthday and invited a bunch of people to come down and hang out. First off, the house itself was amazing: semi-indoor pool with jacuzzi, home theater, pool table, huge balconies, marble pillars in the foyer, etc... I ( Read more... )

As some of you may have heard, as of October 31st, I am now officially de-singlized. Things began when revsaintmichael showed up at my place in the early afternoon, dressed in his "Dark Oberon" costume, thus making him ready both for Halloween and to conduct the wedding ceremony. He and I and my groomsmen - Damon, Clint, and Will - met up and went to Jessica's ( Read more... )

Friday morning Jessica and I went down to Broadkill Beach on the Delaware shore for the weekend. We stayed at a fantastic beach house that my stepfather's family rents for a few weeks every summer. Broadkill Beach is on a small island in the Bay that isn't commercialized at all, so only the people staying there use the beach. As such, every morning ( Read more... )

Apparently, people in eastern Virigina loooove pancakes. Really. We passed, like, five pancake houses in the space of about two miles.

I just thought that was important to mention.

This past Monday Jessica and I took a trip down to Williamsburg, VA. I think this is the first real vacation I've taken since mamcdowell and I drove to Origins in Ohio a few years back. We got to the B&B where we were staying early Monday afternoon and then went walking around the historic part of town. The weather was a bit cold and dreary, but it didn't ( Read more... )