Life

It’s not that I don’t love, you, but I’ve been seeing other blogs. The baby turned one year old right before we headed to Atlantic city for a week.  You heard me right, my wife, the most fabulous woman in the world, rented us a beach house adjacent to Atlantic City, home of all things…

In perspective, I think I did pretty well, my wayward parents notwithstanding.  My sister and brother in law got me an espresso maker, which I’ve been using to make Sarah and I lattes in morning.  Several sweet people got me cards, and one pair of friends re-arranged their DC visit to someone else’s wedding festivities…

Your parents forget your birthday.  (Well, two of the three did.) An excellent excuse to update my birthday list, since I in fact forgot my own sister’s birthday 2 weeks ago.

As I hit my statistical hump day of midlife, there’s a bunch of stuff I have to do.  I’m not talking about buying a Porsche, but all the other stuff that hits.  Suddenly there’s a bunch of medical screening I’ll have to go through in another year for diseases that don’t kill, "young men".  And…

I turn 39 this month, and I’m clearly behind in all the stuff I have to do before I turn 40.  I only have 12 months to get my act together, buy a Porsche, start dating a 20 year old, and join EST (now called ‘The Forum’) and ‘find myself’. That’s a lot of ironic…

So for 10 days I have some sort of obnoxious intestinal flu.  And now it’s gone.  I’m six pounds lighter and a bit less energetic, but it is over thank god. I’m posting from the Amtrak and have just switched seats with a family of two women and their two daughters.  I gave them my…

Sarah got the call last week that she had a number of live deals going, and so she cancelled her trip to Mexico City.  This upset her greatly, and upset her dear friend in Mexico City probably more.  So Sarah put her head down and started working.  And working.  And working. By Sunday night she…

The city’s CFO examined the spending cap the DC Council passed on the stadium legislation and says he thinks it won’t be a problem for raising the necessary money to build the new stadium for the Nationals.  This is something we agreed to as a part of the deal to get Major League Baseball.  However…

Sarah and I celebrated five years this past December.  I suppose it’s a testament to how lucky we both feel that it seems like yesterday we met.  For our anniversary Sarah got me a box of gourmet chocolates that blew me away. Made by gourmet chocolatier Richart, they come in seven different flavor groups.  Each…

My first Google video experiment is of course, a video of my son playing a toy piano.  As Sarah and I were uploading several of them, and waiting for the approval period where the Google algorithm/screeners concluded we hadn’t buried any episodes of I Love Lucy in the middle of them, I concluded, "This is…