Ever since I was a kid growing up in my orange and blue bedroom, I’ve been waiting for the New York Mets to host the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Yesterday the Mets were finally awarded the game. CitiField will be the site of the 2013 MLB All-Star Game, ending a 49-year drought – the [...]
Motorcades with police escorts are a daily occurrence in downtown Washington, DC, but something was definitely different about this one. It was smaller, it was incredibly slow, it included an odd looking truck, it made a U-turn, and most odd of all it kept repeatedly going up and down the same street over and over [...]
Maegan is heartbroken that her pet rat Pixel died today. She loved that rat and played with her all the time. Pixel died of salmonella poisoning from contaminated pet food sold by Kaytee. The company recalled a batch of its Forti-Diet Pro Health Mouse, Rat and Hamster food, and the bag we were feeding Pixel [...]
Amy was looking for furniture online and came across this “patio hanging egg chair”. $446 seems like an outrageously high price for such an ugly chair… but how can you pass up the opportunity to save over $79,000?! Even more ridiculous is the fact that the minimum order is two of these hideous things.
This past weekend Patty and I took the kids (and Olivia) to an Earth Day Fair at the Dairy Barn. No, not the Dairy Barn drive-through convenience stores on Long Island. The Dairy Barn is part of the Anne Springs Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Maegan and Olivia took off hiking down a long [...]
I was just sent this photo of Darah in dance lessons. This reminded me of when Maegan took dance lessons. Here’s a photo from a 2005 blog post, which would make Darah the same age as Maegan was at the time:
Today the Space Shuttle Discovery did several fly-overs over Washington, DC, on its final flight before being put on permanent display in Virginia. It was pretty cool to see the shuttle fly by. Here are two photos I took from my office window. Twitter was on fire with photos random people were taking of the [...]
Last week I got to take the kids to Florida, but Patty couldn’t make it due to her nursing school. We did a lot of swimming, some mini-golf, went to the Palm Beach Zoo, and went to the beach. Here are photos from the trip.
This morning Amy and I were getting ready to leave for work when we noticed the sounds of a jackhammer. There’s road repairs going on at the end of the block. At first we thought that must be pretty loud for those living down there if we can hear it so clearly all the way [...]
Google Plus is a great service with many incredibly useful features. The problem with Google+ isn’t with the service itself. The problems with Google+ is with adoption. The first of two problems preventing widespread adoption of Google Plus is the complete misunderstanding that Google Plus is actually a social network. Well it kind of is, [...]