I lost a kidney but gained a son. Good trade.
Archive for December, 2007
2007 in 10 words or less
Posted in Parenthood on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Sweet 16 (and 0)
Posted in Patriots, tagged football on December 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Perfection!
Spider-Man: One More Day
Posted in Comic Books, Spider-Man, tagged one more day, spider-man on December 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Well, they finally did it. After 20 looooooong years, Marvel Comics has ended the marriage of Peter (Spider-Man) Parker and Mary Jane Watson.
THANK GOD.
Now, first, some background. Twenty years ago Marvel made the decision to marry Peter and MJ in order to match something that Spidey’s creator, Stan Lee, was doing in the out-of-continuity daily newspaper [...]
The 1.21 gigawatt Christmas gift
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
This year I got my buddy Eric a USB-hub TARDIS for Christmas. (TARDIS, of course, stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space—or, if you must, a “time machine.” 
Anyway, what you do is plug your USB memory sticks into the TARDIS hub and it lights up and makes the Dr. Who time-travel noise. Pretty cool, right? I [...]
Ten years!
Posted in Parenthood, Travel on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
One more thing: Yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of the day I proposed to Penny. Yep, it happened on Christmas 1997. How much has changed since then? Collectively we’ve: Traveled to 12 countries, held 11 jobs, rented five apartments, lived in two states and one foreign country, bought a house, survived a breakup, and had a baby. Not too shabby!
The hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye
Posted in Movies, Parenthood on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
And if you didn’t get the movie reference in today’s title, get thee immediately to a TV set and watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Seriously, go now. I’ll wait.
OK, you back? Good. Then let’s talk about Christmas 2007. In a word, awesome.
In more words:
The festivities began after work on Christmas Eve. Penny and I both worked half days [...]
Yankee Swap
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
An open letter to whomever wrapped up their half-used Starbucks gift card for this year’s SmarterTravel company-wide Yankee Swap:
Dear Jackass,
If you want to re-gift something, that’s fine. But next year, please leave enough cash on the gift card so the recipient can actually buy a couple of lattes?
Sincerely,
A bitterly disappointed gift-card recipient
Merry Christmas from the Preferred Mutual Insurance Company
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Transcript of a letter we received yesterday:
Dear Mr. Roberts,
We will not be renewing your home insurance policy when it expires. The insurance will expire on 2/15/2008 at 12:01 a.m. local time. The reason for non-renewal is: Potential for catastrophic loss.
Regards,
Preferred Mutual Insurance Company
This leaves me with two questions. One, isn’t “potential for catastrophic loss” the [...]
Absence makes the heart grow grumpier
Posted in Movies, tagged return of the jedi, han solo, luke skywalker, star war on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
One of my favorite exchanges from the Star Wars trilogy goes like this…
Han Solo: Together again.
Luke: Wouldn’t miss it.
Han Solo: How we doin’?
Luke: Same as always.
Han Solo: That bad, huh?
And that, friends, is how it feels to be back at work.
The Tuesday Traveler # 4: Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Posted in Photography, Tuesday Traveler, tagged hiking, quiraing, scotland, skye on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Where: Isle of Skye, Scotland
When: September 2000
What: I snapped this photo while climbing a muddy footpath to the top of the Quiraing on Skye. This easy day hike is one of my favorites on the island because it offers so much of what I love about the Scottish landscape: dramatic cliffs, heaving hills, and blue-green lochs. From the top of the Quiraing I could see [...]
