At Pennsic, the parties apparently used to be much more diverse, and, well, weird. But with age and success, things seem to homogenize. You can basically be assured of a bar, a drum circle, and fire demonstrations of some kind. This picture came from Vlad’s camp, the night of the Continue Reading
The house – when we bought it – had an overly large, inappropriate light fixture on the front porch. So it became a low-priority fix, with us occasionally looking at new fixtures. But when we came upon something nice and size-appropriate at the Community Forklift, we grabbed it, and prepared Continue Reading
Seen as I walked off the Metro (subway) on the way home tonight.
If you remember, one of the first things we did at the house was have the floors redone. This included removing tile that had been put down in the main hallway. Without the tile, the floor level dropped about an inch, leaving the baseboards dangling. So we pulled them off, Continue Reading
A year ago tonight I met this wonderful woman. And now my life has changed in many ways, and I love her more all the time.
“Gare de Lyon” by Jon Siegel I love this photo. He just nailed the depth of field. The colors and the lighting are incredible. The urban-porn of all these different people going in every direction from the train platform. The single, centered vanishing point. The halo around the girl.
You want a horribly colored photo? Stick me in a room with incandescent lighting, and beige walls, and beige furniture. No matter how much I mess with the white balance, I can never quite get it right, under those conditions.
On my way back from a family picnic in NY. Looking at the photos… my family is so very white.
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For the nations who were deeply involved in World War II, the war effort was total, with women volunteering in huge numbers alongside men and filling traditionally male positions at home, in industry, and the military. Women took both active and supporting positions in factories, government organizations, military auxiliaries, resistance Continue Reading
Yes we survived the earthquake. And the hurricane. I’m not so sure about the locusts on the horizon, though. This street is apparently notorious for the power going out if someone so much as sneezes. This is a big change for me over living further downtown, where all the Continue Reading
Yes we survived the earthquake. And the hurricane. I’m not so sure about the locusts on the horizon, though. This street is apparently notorious for the power going out if someone so much as sneezes. This is a big change for me over living further downtown, where all the powerlines Continue Reading
The first thing we did with the new house was have the floors redone. They’re the original hard pine floors, and seemed to be in generally good shape. But some previous owner had coated them in this gawdawful stuff that sat on top of the boards like a plastic coating, Continue Reading
A few months ago, we started looking at houses in Washington, DC. Heidi wanted to move closer to the city life, and I was happy to move out of my apartment. Via friend-of-a-friend, we connected with, and quickly came to enjoy working with Jason Kangal (Kangal Real Estate) as our Continue Reading
I took a class–with Heidi–at the Maryland Woodworkers Club; the Fundamentals of Woodworking class. I grew up with a father who did a bit of construction/roofing here and there, and the obligatory shop classes and boy scout projects. But I was long overdue for a refresher course. I’d been to Continue Reading
The family reunion was at the bass club in San Angelo again this year. Same old everything, but that’s kind of the point. Took Heidi. Family likes her better than they like me. But they’re quite disappointed to learn i’m not gay.
Taken at the family reunion in Texas this weekend.