Category Life

Last swings of the hammer…

Among the most nerve-wracking implications of recent life changes was the need for us to figure out what to do with our condo. Thankfully, after an attempt at a word-of-mouth FSBO and then a formal listing with a realtor, we were offered a contract over the weekend. While the offer wasn’t everything we wanted, we […]

Honeymooning…

Brief post from the airport…I’ll be away for a bit, spending the next few weeks on a slightly-delayed honeymoon in New Zealand. I might pop in for a post or two, but if at all such posts will be sporadic, as I actually left my laptop at home – a decision that has left my [...]

Gone pro!

My Flickr account, that is. (Betcha thought this would be another long STS-y post, eh? Soon enough, my friend, soon enough…)

A little swordplay at the Kennedy Center

I’m so there on Monday:
bq. __Monday, March 28, 2005, 6pm__
“Kamui”:http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=KAMUI, a group of professional sword-fighting specialists, most recently choreographed the fight scenes for the movie Kill Bill in which they played the Crazy 88 characters.
Anyone wanna join me?
(Man, I love the “Millennium Stage”:http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/schedule.html)

Pleasant surprise…

So, I moved to DC about eight months ago. For the most part, it was a quick transition, but there’s one lingering thing that’s been hanging over my head since moving; getting a DC drivers’ license and registering my car in the District. It’s not a sentimental thing; yes, I kept my Maryland affiliation through [...]

Emerging…

So, I’d been gone so long that my front page went blank. I remarked to someone today that this is the blog equivalent of leaving your fly down, but I think a better analogy is letting your grass go unmowed until it’s knee-high; the stigma comes not just from the visible neglect, but its particularly [...]