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Monica seems to have loved her scuba class. She’s so excited about getting to dive next weekend. I’m looking forward to sitting out in the sun with some cold sodas, lots of snacks and a few good books.
Speaking of books, I just finished reading Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale. It was […]

Mica starts her scuba classes tomorrow. She seems really excited, which has been getting me more and more excited about it.
Especially since I just told her what we’re doing for our second anniversary next year. We’ll probably get dives in at least 2, maybe three of those ports. I’m […]

The meeting today went well. Too well. The last 6 weeks have been non-stop stress in trying to get the necessary attendees together and in agreement on the topics. But they all came together today and they were prepared and we finished an 8 hour meeting in just over 4.5 hours. So we all headed […]

I’m posting this from my hotel room in Solomons Island, Maryland. It’s been a hellaciously long day for so many reasons. I’ve had some rather bad luck with travelling since I got married:

December Honeymoon: Tobago - Neary was denied boarding to BWIA flight from Miami to Tobago because they required […]

The video game, she played me
Face it on the level but it take you every time on a one on one
Feel it runnin’ down your spine
Nothin’ gonna save your one last dime ’cause it own you
Through and through
-Who Made Who
All of the new controversy over GTA: San Andreas […]

After work last night, I pulled my bike out and headed for one of the Katy Trail trainheads. It was the first evening in a while where the temperatures were under 90 and the weather forecast called for 30% chance of rain. So things looked pretty good.
I haven’t been riding in […]

Next Monday, I leave for Pax River, Maryland for a meeting on Tuesday. I’ve never been near Maryland or the capitol. It should be an interesting trip. This will probably be the first business trip I take my digital camera on. We’ll see how full my suitcase is, I guess. […]

So I got to leave work at 11:30 today to meet the plumber about changing out our hose bib. Unfortunately, 11:30 was already 6 hours into my work day. Mica is working a different shift all week, so I got to get up and go in to work without her. She barely […]

While our basement was drying, we went camping for the weekend. That made for an interesting time. The dogs weren’t very interested in exploring - they slept on our sleeping bags most of the time. It was too, too hot most of the night and I didn’t get much sleep either. […]

Back in January, our basement flooded. Just over 3″ of water covering the carpet. Enough to destroy all the carpet, some sheetrock, the baseboards as well as everything on the floor. It turned out the sump pump was disabled and we had almost 9″ of rain and 12″ of snow that month. […]