I just came back from my first Charlotte Checkers game since they ‘became’ an AHL affiliate of the Carolina Hurricane. I went with friend after another friend had to work and generously offered me his ticket. The arena was practically empty on a Tuesday night (election night) but it was still fun, and a very [...]
This Saturday was the 3rd annual “Omega Chapter Memorial Golf Tournament”. I played in the inaugural tournament in 2008 but skipped last year’s. Unlike last time, and despite the name of the event, it really wasn’t a tournament at all, but just an annual golf outing. This year we played at Cramerton Mountain Country Club. [...]
I wish I knew the exact date so I could have posted something about it then, but last month a major anniversary passed by unnoticed. Twenty years ago this June Patty and I both graduated from Northport High School. Twenty years. Two decades. And last night the Northport High School Class of 1990 held their [...]
Back on February 5th I went to a Charlotte Checkers game with friends. It was the first Checkers game I’ve been to in years, since they used to play in the old Independence Arena. It was a lot of fun, and then some of us went across the street to The Epicenter. This whole time [...]
Twice in the past week I found out just how small the world really is. A week ago Maegan came home from school and told us about a story that her teacher told in class about a boy she had gone to school with a long time ago. The tragic story sounded way too familiar [...]
Two weeks ago the family took a trip to visit my sister in Washington, DC. A bit late, I’m finally blogging about it now. We left early in the morning on Maegan’s birthday, which means that Maegan spent most of her birthday cooped up in the back seat of a car traveling through the Virginia [...]
On Saturday I played golf for the first time in many many years. I’ve played only three times in the past 10 years, but I don’t think I’ve played a full round of 18 holes since I was a teenager, and I’ve definitely never played in a tournament before. This story begins earlier this year [...]
On Saturday we visited Northport. First we briefly stopped by Northport High School where Patty and I first met. (No, we never dated back then.) Then we had lunch at Shipwreck Diner on Main Street and walked around the docks and Northport Village Park. Our trip to Northport made us a bit late for our [...]
I can’t stand social networking websites but I reluctantly joined Facebook last month. I really didn’t want to and since I have my own website, I didn’t need to either. But I signed up because I just couldn’t ignore the benefit of making it easier for old friends to find me. My Facebook page has [...]
… but not for me. I just got an email from Chris, my best friend from High School. I haven’t heard from him in years. He wrote that he’s moving from Manhattan to Atlanta. I just found this news to be an odd coincidence because I know that my best friend from Junior High School [...]