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Yesterday, I purchased our plane tickets to Orlando for Christmas. We’ll be in Orlando from Christmas Eve on thru New Year’s Day. I also reserved our rental car. All that’s really left is to book our dives and purchase DisneyWorld tickets. We’ve had our condo reserved for over a year now. […]

A friend of mine recommended Adagio Teas to us the other day. Said if we liked good tea, we’d love this place. So we checked it out, placed an order. And now I’m addicted. Their teapot is just awesome, and the teas are excellent. We’re probably putting another order for […]

Mica and I made the short trip out to Rolla, MO yesterday for Midwest Scuba’s 2005 Scuba Carve. Things didn’t go quite as well as we had planned.
The rules are basically this: no work can be done on the surface except for one stab into the pumpkin to help it […]

So it’s about time I recapped the recent vacation. Very brief, I’m afraid:

For once, the flight out was pretty much on time. I’ve been having bad luck with flights this year.
Woke up at 5AM the next morning for Mica’s first mass ascension. It went off beautifully, the weather was […]

The successful CIA-orchestrated operation in 1954 to overthrow the Guatemalan ruler Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, PBSUCCESS, resulted in long-term problems for the United States. The overthrow of the Arbenz regime led to Civil War in Guatemala, a war that lasted 36 years and created more than 100,000 casualties and 1,000,000 refugees. Despite countless mistakes […]

We’ll, we’re home from Albuquerque. Don’t have time to post much for now, but here are a few pictures.