whuffle and I celebrated our eight year anniversary this past weekend. The zoo was having an event called "Brew at the Zoo." The Zoo closed early and assorted local breweries set up kiosks dispensing samples. There were stands giving out food samples as well.

The Lemurs were fascinated by the drunken people, the gorillas were dubious and did not approve of ( Read more... )

I wonder what it reveals about my character that two of my favorite celebrities are people who strike me as folks I would enjoy chatting with at a party.

For the record, the celebrities in question are Will Wheaton and Jenny Lawson. As the Will Wheaton link reveals, he favors one of my favorite homebrewing supply vendors, Northern Brewer.

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3 Years ago today a newborn baby boy was handed to my wife. He was less than five minutes old. Our friend Bridget, who had been with us during the labor and birth, commented "You hear that sound? That's the sound of your husband being wrapped around your newborn son's little finger ( Read more... )

Saturday Whuffle and I went out to celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary. We had dinner and saw "Inception." After the movie we went home and both our brains were too active to go to sleep, so we watched an episode of "Glee" from Netflix. That night, my brain punished me by presenting me with a dream. In an apparent dig at the "You start the dream ( Read more... )

The weekend consisted of chores, laundry, dishes and food prep. When I got back to the office and sat down at my desk my first thought was "Oh, this is much more relaxing ( Read more... )

I've come to the conclusion that the red line, particularly near the end of the Braintree branch, is full of nutjobs. Said nutjobs seem to keep quiet when a woman with a stroller is around, but leech out of the tile work when a guy with a toddler comes along ( Read more... )

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Whuffle and I have been watching some of the "Old School" Sesame Street DVDs with Caleb. It's reminded me just how much fun they are. I'm the oldest of 5 kids, the youngest of which is 16 years younger than I. As a result Sesame Street was pretty much ALWAYS on when I was growing up, so I never really remember a point where somoene wasn't watching ( Read more... )