Apologies for chiming in so late in the aftermath of my first day at the new job. Contrary to what Elle jokingly posted in the comments of my post from this morning, the drastic change in scenery and schedule has not made me forget about this blog nor the kind readers who come by it. …
Something about it being the beginning of September makes today’s first day at my new job feel like the start of a new school year. So as I’m looking forward to it, here’s a trip back in time via mine and Susan’s Flickr photosets of our visit to the awesome Heritage Square Museum for the …
It was a year ago today that Susan and I found these four abandoned furballs on the side of the highway while coming through Monument Valley in Utah on the latter part of our 4,500-mile roadtrip vacation: July 11, 2006: We successfully smuggled them into our room at the Cliff Dwellers Lodge near Vermilion Cliffs, …
It was 10 years ago today that we found each other. About six weeks earlier on my birthday in 1997 I’d totaled my previous ride pretty spectacularly, and in that trying period of carlessness I kick-started my appreciation for commuting by bike and mass transit while scouring the automobile classifieds in hopes of finding a …
I love my wife. With all my heart. Since the second anniversary is designated as the “cotton” one, I got her a new down cover (100% cotton casing), a new 100% woven cotten blanket (just in time for summer!), and because I blew it last year and didn’t get her anything for our “paper” anniversary, …
We are remiss! If, as we estimated, Ranger and her three brothers and sisters were in the six-week age range when we found them in Utah’s Monument Valley July 11 of 2006, then that means that Ranger’s first birthday (approximately June 1 but I’m going to say May 29 because that has a nice personal …
It just dawned on me that a couple days ago was the 10th anniversary of The Worst Birthday Of My Life. Sure, a lot of people have a lot of subjective reasons why a birthday might blow, but I guarantee you that my 33rd sucked in an empirical and impenetrably definitive sense. Let’s go take …