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Happy Holidays

Well, since they're now over, I can safely ask how everyone's holidays went. Ours were pretty uneventful, which is a nice change. The last couple have been pretty crazy with traveling or some sort of emergencies and disasters. We decided to take it easy and keep...

Birthday Year in Review

So, another year, another birthday. 2010 has been quite the blur. When it started we weren't pregnant yet, my mother-in-law was still doing somewhat ok, I was making significantly less money at work, I hadn't taken a vacation in 5 years (a trip somewhere fun, not...

Black Ops: Black Eye

I struggled briefly with the idea that it was me. That I was perhaps the only one out of the 7 million copies sold that really dislikes the new Call of Duty: Black Ops. Then I realized that the culture of the FPS genre had changed and that it wasn't so much the games...

Self-Aggrandizing

By definition, a blog is fairly self-aggrandizing. In this instance however, it might serve a purpose. Obviously, with a baby on the way, my thoughts are turning more and more towards "daddy" type of activities. That includes getting excited about "stuff" for the...

7 years

It seems like only yesterday, but seven years ago today I was married. Most of you were there. It's hard to believe it's been that long. It really doesn't even feel like it. I feel about 20, and like I just graduated from college, but that I'm some how mysteriously...

DC Aftermath

That sounds like some sort of CBS post-apocalyptic drama doesn't it? Well, I'm back home now. I would have posted sooner but it took nearly the entire weekend to simply recover. The last two days of my trip were especially brutal. I won't bore you with the minute by...