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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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It looks like my surgery will most likely be in early March - trepidations abound but wanting to get it done and over with.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
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Another reason I can't stand winter - the darn static electricity you pick up from things. Every time I touch something with even a tiny bit of metal I get shocked. Annoying.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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Had a pretty good long weekend - got a bunch done and even took a little jaunt out to Kittery Maine yesterday to spend a few afternoon hours. I tried something new at a place there, a dish called Lobster Poutine which is just what you'd expect it to be - the consensus was it was ok, but not great. I also took a scenic picture or two which I hope to have up soon.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
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Day is off to a great start -got my car inspected this morning and it passed with flying colors. Say what you want to about the old beast but truth be told it's been super reliable to me over the 10 years I've had it so far and that's why I got the thing originally. Also got some bills paid and got caught up on a bunch of other stuff - let the weekend begin!
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
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Love me those Law & Order marathons on USA network. Been watching it so much lately that I actually dreamed about being in an episode - scary.
Hah!
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
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Had a lovely time out on the town last night. Went to see the movie "A Dangerous Method" at the Kendell Cinema. It's a story about Jung and Freud and all that fun stuff. Then we had a nice dinner at Legal with a friend who also saw the movie with us. I had a really fun time last night and I really needed it as I've decided to go ahead with a dental implant this year to replace a problem tooth that finally gave out on me and is causing me some anxiety and pain. If it's not one thing, it's another it seems. Anyways it got me to thinking that maybe we could be a bit more social this year and hang out more with friends and colleagues this year.
A neat thing about this post is I am creating it and posting it from my girlfriend's Ipod.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
One of the things we noticed while down on the island was that over the summer there must have been some public outreach to reintroduce a bunch of clams to the bay along the left side of the island, so all over the island were these giant clams that were painted by different artists and so we tried to find as many of them as we could in the immediate area.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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Back in Boston and ready for another year. 2011 wasn't all that great and ended pretty well. 2012 I'm hoping will be a lot better but time will tell. Lot of pictures to share but don't feel like processing them right now.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Made it to the beachhouse here and its pretty sweet. Amazing views. The place is actually on the market for two million but I can feel what its like to live in a house like this for a week!
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Monday, December 19, 2011
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Hasn't been much updating lately - just getting busy wrapping everything up for the year;s end and to take a long break. Anyways, a bit early but here's the highlights of my year this year (and it wasn't the greatest of years, but it had some high points):
2011 in review (some highlights)
Early January - Cape May, NJ
Jan 04 - Basement flood at Earth-2
Jan 29 - East Boston
Feb 12 - Remdawg's!
Feb 19 - NYC (Al Pacino on Broadway)
Mar 04 - LD BD/Mohegan Sun/Jovi concert
Mar 6-13 Quanico, VA/Myrtle Beach, SC/Jersey/"Last Lion"
Apr 13 - Bon Jersey with the Artic Fox
Apr 16 - Record Store Day, Avon, MA
Apr 17 - Biggest Globe - Wellesley, MA
Apr 26 - Stryper Live, Foxboro, MA
Apr 30 - Comiccon - Boston, MA
May 05 - Red Sox Game, Fenway Park, Boston, MA
May 06 - Frankie Vallie Concert, Boston, MA
May 07 - FCBD
May 13 - Madison, NJ
May 29 - Westport, MA
Jun 04 - Ashland/Laconia, NH/Franconia Notch
Jun 18 - Bruins parade VIP, Boston, MA
Jun 25 - Operation "Obtain Kota!"
Jun 30 - Fireworks, Somerville, MA
Jul 02 - Gym Pool Sneakin, Norwood, MA
Jun 03 - Walden Pond, Concord, MA
Jun 04 - Vega BBQ, Norwood, MA
Jul 10 - Westport/Dartmouth, MA
Jul 14 - Spring Lake/Lake Como, NJ
Jul 23 - Brewster, MA (Cape Cod)
Jul 29 - Sidewalk Driver concert - MidEast Up - Cambridge, MA 11pm start
Jul 31 - Salisbury Beach, Salisbury, MA
Aug 06 - Boothbay Harbor, ME/Puffins/Penoquit Light/Harborage Inn
Aug 08 - Alpaca/Bar Harbor, ME/Bar Harbor Inn
Aug 10 - Wells, ME/Former church
Aug 19 - Michelle A. in town/Boston/Plymouth/Hull, MA
Aug 26 - Early Morning Bikeride, Medford, MA
Aug 28 - Hurricane Irene hits
Sep 02 - Morristown/Morris/Madison, NJ
Sep 10 - Salem MA/"Arctic Fox" visit
Sep 17 - Liberty Hotel stay, Boston, Ma/appreciation trip
Sep 24 - Fluff-fest - "Cindy Brady" appearance, Somerville, MA
Oct 01 - Topsfield Fair, Topsfield MA
Oct 02 - Cambridge BowTie Bike Ride 2011
Oct 06 - Opening Night at Radio, Union Sq, Somerville
Oct 08 - Kerstin in town
Oct 09 - Gloucester Beach day in October
Oct 15 - Berkshire Overnight in Lee/Scenic Railway Leafpeep Train ride (Lenox/Lee/Stockbridge)
Oct 16 - Trail Hike, Stockbridge MA
Oct 16 - Apple Picking/Orgasmic Cider Donuts
Oct 20 - Philbrook Book Talk, Cambridge Ma ("Why Read Moby-Dick?")
Oct 21-22 New Jersey/Pumpkin Pickin w/ LD Family/Boonton/Ort Farm/Parsippany NJ
Oct 31 - Handing out Trick or Treats, Norwood, MA
Nov 05 - Pumpkin Pancakes Breakfast, Dartmouth, MA
Nov 11 - Roxy's Grilled Cheese Foodtruck Visit, Boston, MA
Nov 19 - Robin Hood Performance at Paramount Theatre, Boston MA
Nov 24-27 - Thanksgiving Festivities, Norwood MA
Dec 04 - Wahlburgers Trip, Hingham, MA
Dec 10 - Katleen Turner in "High" Play, Boston, MA
Dec 12 - Xmas Party, Intercontinental Hotel, Boston MA
Dec 22 - 2012 L.B.I!!
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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I enjoyed myself at the xmas party last night over at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston. Couldn't help but notice some sweet fancy rides in the parking garage including a sweet brand new looking Tesla. The whole place is really posh - some serious cash must be spent in that place. Almost too much for my taste.
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
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The play was intense! Plus the fact that we were in the first row made it all the more awesome for me. I've never in my life been that physically close to a famous actor/actress before. Also, the dinner previous to the show in a restaurant's 'snug' with some friends made the experience even more worth remembering.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
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Looking forward to seeing Kathleen Turner in 'High' on Saturday at the Cutler, and LD's Xmas party at the Intercontinental on the Boston Waterfront on Monday nite.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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Fairly uneventful weekend - getting ready for the holidays mostly - did check out the Walhburgers in Hingham though (it was pretty good!) It's owned by Mark and Donnie and their chef brother. LD was even kind enough to purchase for me Ace Frehley's new autobiography! An early present.
I also learned on Friday night while heading into Boston that apparently my CharlieCard expired. What a pain in the ass. Luckily the T attendant let me get on for free this time but I'll need to get a new card soon if I'm to get to a Xmas Party downtown next Monday!
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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Started out good - then I got a headache, the paths to my web project were all messed up, the coordinates in a CAD drawing I exported - the client doesn't know how to deal with, getting a report out by deadline today because the donkey always waits till the last minute, working on another project I have no idea what to do with, and to top it all off my laptop got fried (but luckily was able to replaced with another model of the same everything on hand.) Did I mention the headache?
All in a day's work.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
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Almost a year later I finally purchased my first book on the Kindle! What can I say? No books during the year really caught my eye enough to want to read them.
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Had a nice fairly lowkey holiday - filled with family and freinds, and Muppets movie going, and eating, and finding new ways to use leftovers, such as creating an amazing turkey pot pie courtesy of the Ladydoc! Also got some shopping done, but none of that Black Friday craziness nonsense.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I plan on helping with the meal this year and eating up a storm.
And taking time to reflect and be thankful.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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I love how we can do things that are highbrow and fancy and elegant one night, and the next be gritty and dirty and grungy at local dives. Love experiencing both ends of the spectrum!
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
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Got to see a performance of Robin Hood in downtown Boston on Saturday at the Paramount Theatre headed up mostly by acting students. Pretty neat - something different for sure. It was actually a pretty well staged production, if a tiny bit long in certain parts. Pretty cool props - I especially like the big chicken bone and bathtub full of gold coins.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
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Spent a couple of hours this morning watching an MRI take place and seeing how it works. I wasn't the one actually inside the MRI machine but I was in the room. Man is that machine loud - pretty fascinating technology however.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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In case you couldn't get enough of these guys already.
Boondock Saints GN.
Actually, I thought the movies kinda sucked, but I liked that they were set in Boston.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
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Spent part of this 11-11-11 finally getting out to check out the Roxy's Grilled Cheese foodtruck in front of the Boston Public Library with LD. These guys were made famous by being on a Food Network show called The Great Food Truck Race or something to that effect, which we watched until they got bumped out close to the very end - gots to represent! Found awesome parking on Newbury Street and didn't have to pay since it was a holiday and we enjoyed our sandwiches and hot cider.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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I had to take today off from work just to get all these various things done. First I had to get my brakes looked at because they sounded horrible - a couple hours later new pads and shoes, but it rides the balls now. Then I had to take my mom to a doctor appointment she had at Cambridge Hospital and that's another couple hours right there. Also decided to find RayRay's grave at Mt. Auburn Cemetery with her and that took a little bit, and then running errands, paying bills, and getting prescriptions, it's totally a full day. Whew! But at least it's all done now!
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
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Spent most of Saturday down in Dartmouth a good friend of LD's house, eating pumpkin pancakes, playing Wii games, and jumping on trampolines. Then later in the day we took a ride down by the water's edge and took in some scenery. I took a bunch of pics, maybe I'll put up some of the better ones in a day or so. I took one of the Ladydoc there that I love because she looks so happy in the picture and I get all sentimental looking at it.
On the Friday before I had a dentist appointment I was being anxious about because I know I need a dental implant for one of my teeth and I was ready to bite the bullet and begin the proceedings but the dentist said I could actually wait for now until it actually fails, so it was a much faster appointment than I anticipated. I'm not too thrilled with the prospect of having a titanium screw drilled into my jawbone but he said it's actually less painful than getting a tooth pulled. Almost immediately after that I attended a wake being held for RayRay, totally off the cuff after learning about it's happening only a half hour before. He did look peaceful lying there but it's still weird to think he's really gone. No more of seeing "the Ferret" (one of our nicknames for him) run back and forth across Elm Street playing Frogger with real life automobiles and being totally unaware of them. Another one of the local Somerville-townie Square's characters gone. I also learned over the weekend that "Richie-Gangrene" died a few days later at the butcher shop, i.e. the Somerville Hospital, but that and his nickname are stories for some other time.
I also began having thoughts if they celebrate Thanksgiving in Hawaii, or even Halloween for that matter, and thinking that they probably do, but they probably have their own customs from way back.
Today was spent getting a bunch of house chores done, and grocery shopping, pulling up some of the last vestiges of the garden, etc. It was nice to get the extra hour from the clock turnback - seems like it didn't take up that much of the day to get things done. I mean, who wants to do that kind of work on the weekends, you know, you work all week so you want that time for yourself to do fun things that you want to do.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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Had fun helping hand out the candy last night to all the dressed up little kids that rang the doorbell between 6 and 8 pm. Didn't even run out of candy although we thought that maybe I didn't buy enough. Some towns had to outright cancel or postpone their Halloween due to outages created from the snowstorm the other day. Not sure how anyone can really 'cancel' Halloween, but, whatever. The Diva Witch was still a bit under the weather but getting better.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
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Was surprised to see that the bird feeder out back actually has sprouts growing inside the feeder from the seeds left in there over the last few weeks. Also LD has been ill with a nasty bug so I've been trying to take good care of her and not get sick myself. Right now outside it is nasty and rainy and overnight it's supposed to be a snowstorm dropping a few inches over us. Got to love New England weather!
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Friday, October 28, 2011
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Snow? Already? Seriously??
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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I submitted one of my photos that I had taken to reflect a community's identity for inclusion in a Massachusetts Calendar that if chosen will probably be hanging up in offices across the entire state. Would be nice if I get picked for a month, along with a photo credit!
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Monday, October 24, 2011
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Had a lot of fun this weekend and picked out my huge pumpkin someplace from a field in mid-northern Jersey, and watched a 3 year old go on his first pick with us, what could be better?
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
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Back from the author talk. It was none other than Nathaniel Philbrick, who wrote In the Heart of the Sea, which was the first book I read that got me interested in New England whalers and whaling, and was the retelling of the story that originally inspired Moby-Dick, which is a complex book and that I finally got around to reading last year, but like I said, is a toughie but considered the greatest American Novel ever. This new book expounds upon why that is and so that's why I am interested in it, plus Mr. Philbrick is a phenomenal writer. Perhaps something for me to read while in Jersey.
Here's a picture of the big record sign I picked up last weekend in the Bershires to hang above the jukebox.
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