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Had a lovely weekend.
Gorgeous day yesterday, perfect for taking care of some last-minute errands and running down to West Point Market with Karla to pick up groceries for Liz’s birthday dinner.
Did some errands with Liz today (frame shop, Radio Shack, etc.), enjoyed helping set up her Tivoli iPod radio gizmo, played some Wii (the Rayman: […]

Liz and I took a well-deserved three-day weekend trip to Ann Arbor to celebrate our anniversary a little early. It’s hard to believe that six years of marriage have gone rocketing by so quickly!
Friday night we enjoyed a good wander around downtown Ann Arbor, discovered, to the peril of my credit cards, the Vault […]

Just a quick post for now… We are back safely from San Francisco. Thankfully, the house is still standing–no exploding water heaters, no massive wake of feline destruction, nothing. I suppose it’s a good thing we got in when we did, as the news now tells us a plane got diverted to […]

After a Monday night of drinking high-end sake and feasting on exquisitely delicious sushi with my high school buddy Josh, we hauled our sleepy behinds up to Napa for the kick-off of the week’s wine country adventures.
We spent pretty much all day Tuesday at Tres Sabores, getting a tour by way of working for the […]

To celebrate our launch and the start of vacation, I took my team-mates out to Melt for beer and tasty food, and a good time was had by all. Of course, then I had to go home and pack, and then didn’t sleep much that night (I never manage to sleep well before a […]

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Okay, we are officially living in Bizarro World…
We went to the Brew Kettle with butterandjelly a couple of Wednesdays ago, and while there I tasted (and completed!) a sampler flight of beers. Amazingly, after years of hating beer with a vengeance, I’ve started […]

aquamindy, butterandjelly, and I are embarking on a survey of this year’s various Christmas ales, and being the geek that I am, I am attempting to blog the experience as it happens. All the bottles are interesting–and there are quite a number of them!–so for an added challenge I am photoing each bottle as […]

After work last night, Liz and I popped over to Mitchell’s Fish Market to join in the farewell party for a friend of ours (Michelle, with whom we recently lunched while visiting New Jersey) who’s been a regular in our little wine group. Never in a million years would I have expected the collected […]

Last night: MirrorMask with Liz, Brian, Marie, and John, a mind-blowing treat somewhere between Labyrinth and The Neverending Story crossed with a Dave McKean visual acid trip. Slightly hackneyed plot, but clever and charming and funny in all the right spots, and absolutely absorbing visually. We followed it with burgers and yummies […]

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Friday: Post-launch drinking festivities with co-workers (yay, the new AOL Greetings site is live!) blurred pleasantly into dinner and beverages of various and sundry natures with aquamindy, reasie, oogby, and trenchcloak, followed by a couple of rounds of Apples to Apples back at […]