This blog has been pretty neglected in the last little while. Things have been reasonably busy, and reasonably busy is good. Towards the end of July I attended two weddings: that of my mom, and that of the-now Amy and Gavin Griffin. Aside from both of them involving people I love, they couldn't have been any different: my mom's was a very small ( Read more... )

9 days in Costa Rica. I promise there will be no gigantic insect pictures this time.

Arrival and first days in San José:

Going out to TGIF, where the menu items are named in English and the descriptions are in Spanish.
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Friday:

At the baggage pickup in Newark, there was a middle-aged dude wearing wool dress pants belted too high (as older people often do) and a paperback copy of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People tucked into the front of his pants ( Read more... )

Alright, well, that was a pretty nice ceremony. Lump in the throat during exchanging of vows and all that. Beautiful scenery, great couple, all that ( Read more... )

I have three weddings in three weekends in three countries, starting today ( Read more... )

I have a busy weekend coming up. Saturday is UFC 74; Couture vs. Gonzaga and GSP vs. Koscheck. On Sunday is the wedding of sabyl and Steve Landrum in Lake Tahoe. The next morning Laren and I will be flying out to Barcelona. I am again doing colour commentary for the World Cup of Poker September 4-7, so I figured I'd also play the EPT Barcelona event ( Read more... )