About a week ago, roman_mclaze invited Mike and I to a Memorial-Day-weekend barbecue in Dayton. Even though we did not have a lot of plans for the long weekend, we had to turn down the invite, as the barbecue was on Sunday evening and so was our community band rehearsal. I explained that it was the last rehearsal before our performance at the Old West End ( Read more... )

Finally, finally home from two-week, five-state trip filled with family and friends (and occasionally sketchy weather). Home is in desperate need of cleaning, laundry, and food-shopping (oh yeah, and then there's my thesis), but yay, the internet is still here!

Oh, but everything else can wait, because GUESS WHO GOT ROCK BAND 2 FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Hey all, I borrowed the in-laws' computer for a moment so I thought I'd note that I'm still traveling for the holidays. We're in Buffalo now, and will be heading to Pennsylvania soon for New Year's Eve with Tim&Marla and bigbeardedBryan (if we can ever stop playing phonetag and actually talk). I hope all of your holidays went/are going well! We' ( Read more... )

Well, Mike and I are off to New Orleans tomorrow morning. When we arrive tomorrow afternoon, Abe will pick us up and we'll get to see the house he and his girlfriend bought in... I think it's Gulfport. For once I don't need to worry about navigating, so I haven't pressed Mike for details, other things on my mind. I don't know what exactly we'll ( Read more... )

Piratical Activities Today ( Read more... )

How come Department of Natural Resources websites suck? Seriously, I should just wait until I go home and pull out my Michigan Atlas and Gazetteer. All I really want is that big table that tells me which state parks have which kinds of facilities. Indiana looses out because I don't have an Indiana atlas. At least Indiana's website makes use of ( Read more... )

( Wherein we venture out into the desert, and I take too many pictures of rocks )

I'm trying my best to write about my trip *briefly*, and include just the pictures that are most interesting. So here's the first day's worth, feel free to skim. If you just want to browse through my pictures, the album is here, but I warn you, it's badly out of order (sigh).

( What happens in Vegas, stays under the cut )

Mike and I are leaving this evening for a short trip to Las Vegas! We're meeting Abe and Mike's old friend Drew there. I've been thinking about posting excited trip-planning posts for some time, but it just sort of snuck up on me, and now it's time to finish packing and leave! I way over-stess packing. It's too late now to ask anyone who's been ( Read more... )

Alright, so while I was observing the other night, I wrote the long-winded version of what Mike and I did last Friday and Saturday, and ran out of steam before I got to Sunday. I'm going to try to write a sane-length version now ( Read more... )