It was almost the biggest surprise ever. Late yesterday I got word at work that there was a strong desire to send me out the following day on what would have been my first business trip ever. The reason would have been to assist with a time-sensitive video shoot in another state, to ensure that [...]
Jan 242012
Nov 192011
This is some video I shot during the summer of Darah singing to her dandelion.
Aug 222011
This past Friday I went Whitewater Rafting down the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers near Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. This was a work excursion with co-workers. It was a lot of fun and the weather was perfect. We ate lunch by the side of the river, halfway through. I got to see a Bald Eagle in [...]
Aug 162011
My birthday was this past weekend but you’d never have known it. My original plans for this past weekend was to be in Charlotte to for the Panthers game on Saturday. But open-heart surgery for my mom changed those plans. On Thursday Amy and I took a bus up to New York. At 5:00 a.m. [...]
Aug 092011
Meet Peach, Maegan’s new dwarf hamster.On a related note, our dog Boomer is a Rat Terrier, bred to hunt and kill rodents instinctively. May Peaches safely never escape her plastic running ball.
Aug 062011
Patty and the kids were supposed to visit me in Washington this week but were unable to come. So I unexpectedly had a free weekend with no particular plans. In May I played the tourist, visiting several popular attractions in Washington, DC. But except for the World War II Memorial I had been to each [...]
Jul 262011
Darah had her third ear surgery today. She first had a myringotomy (putting tubes in the ears) back in 2008. Unfortunately the procedure left a hole in her right ear drum, resulting in hearing loss. So in 2010 she had a myringoplasty surgery to repair the hole in her ear and hopefully fully restore her [...]
Jul 212011
I am now the father of a teenager! Maegan is now 13 years old! (*This was intentionally not posted on her birthday.)
Jul 182011
This weekend we did some special things with Patty, Maegan, and Darah. On Saturday we all went to the Washington Monument (Amy and Steve too). We’ve all been there before but I got tickets months ago to go inside and up to the top for the first time. The weather was absolutely perfect and you [...]
Jul 152011
My family drove up to visit me for the first time since I began working in Washington DC back in March. It’s taken so long because they needed a time when Patty was between semesters at nursing school and Maegan was not in school or camp either. Patty had her final exam on Monday and [...]
