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I'll be visiting Mass in September and will be entertaining two toddlers and a 12 year old during some part of my trip so I'm looking for some things to do. I'm looking for something in the Western Mass area that might be fun for both toddlers and adults and that won't bore the crap out of a 12 year old boy ( Read more... )

My brother, makaer, recently pointed me to kiva.org, a site that is doing some interesting stuff with microfinancing. I've been reading about how much microloans are helping communities in developing countries, and Kiva has come up with, what I think, is a compelling way of helping people get involved ( Read more... )

I made it home in good time and with a reasonably good set of flights.

Thanks to everyone who posted in my post of earlier this week. I appreciate the kind words.

Sam quote of the day, "No Octopus, please" (said very nicely and pretty much out of the blue).

Hey Seattle folks ( Read more... )

Having a blast with a bunch of folks here (especially with the usual crazy wedding and travel stress out of the way now). Overall it has been amazing and I'll have to post more later when I get in. However, I suspect that it will take a while to recover. So it may be a while ( Read more... )

Hey folks,

I'm going to India in 7 days and I want to bring some small gifts with me for Rachana's grandmother. I've come up with some Marionberry jam and perhaps some local honey but I wanted to see if anyone had any other thoughts for things to bring.

(My parents are brining some maple candy and such from the NE)

I wish it were farmers market

Gacked from jillbertini

"From time to time, we offer free paid time extensions to paid users who were affected by site outages. If you had a paid account on 2006-11-04, you are eligible to have an extra week of paid time added to your account ( Read more... )

So today I have gotten over my little rant about the robocalling and am excited because in about 30 minutes I get to go vote.