• The Main Street Electrical Parade

    30 Mar 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    When I got home from work this evening, I had a package from Dan and Megan. It turned out to be the 50th Anniversary: A Musical History of Disneyland, a 6 CD collection and coffee table book. What a cool present! Thanks Dan and Megan. How can you listen to the Main Street Electrical Parade…

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  • Transition to middle age, redux

    29 Mar 2006 » 1 min read

    Another indication of middle age is the ability to write the sentence: Did you happen to attend Junior High Scool at Porter Junior High from 1985-1987–roughly twenty years ago? On Sunday, evening, I was browsing online, and did some searches for some old friends with whom I’ve lost contact. Normally, I don’t come up with…

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  • You know it’s spring when…

    29 Mar 2006 » 1 min read

    …Crossing the Potomic river on the train in the early morning, you see the Georgetown crew team on the water, rowing back to school.

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  • Pouring on the steam

    29 Mar 2006 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    I’m just about 1,000 pages through Gotham moving into the final stretch. I think I can finish it by the time I go to bed on Friday. I think I can, I think I can…

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  • New wake up time

    29 Mar 2006 » 1 min read about Fitness & Health

    I’m adjusting my wake-up time on “school” nights beginning tomorrow morning. Instead of 6 AM, I’m getting up 20 minutes earlier. This is so that I can have breakfast at home, rather than take it into work with me. I can’t stand plain oatmeal, and if forced to eat it, knowing that it would save…

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  • Pasta and Maragaritas?

    29 Mar 2006 » 1 min read about Fitness & Health

    I stopped at the groecery store on the way home from work today to pick up some groceries–and it took longer than usual because I had to actually check the sodium content of the stuff I was buying. When I got home, I actually cooked, something incredibly rare for me. I made plain pasta and…

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  • Oatmeal

    28 Mar 2006 » 1 min read about Fitness & Health

    So this morning I had a bowl of plain oatmeal (from Au Bon Pan). I added some raisins and a little brown sugar for flavoring, but that didn’t really add much flavor. I think I’m going to buy some cinnamon and add that for flavoring instead. In any event, I ate the oatmeal, which should…

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  • War Stories

    27 Mar 2006 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    War Stories by Joe Haleman arrived today, making it the 998th 999th book in my collection. Two One more to go before I hit 1,000! UPDATE: I discovered a book on myself my shelf last night that had not been entered into my database. This is why the numbers changed from 998 books to 999…

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  • Transition to middle age

    27 Mar 2006 » 2 min read

    Turning 34 is definitely the transition to middle age. I had my physical today. The doctors (who were recommended to me by Rich) were great. I met both Dr. Ken and Dr. Laura (husband and wife team) and Ken spent nearly an hour with me, getting a history, doing the exam, drawing blood, talking about…

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  • 34-years old today

    27 Mar 2006 » 1 min read

    Well, I’m 34 years old today. When I woke up this morning, I completely forgot that it was my birthday and the only reason I remembered is because I’m working from home today. I have a doctor’s appointment this afternoon in Silver Spring and it was easier to work from home then to head all…

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