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28 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Weather report

We are off for a five-day trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to ring in my 30th birthday.
Here’s the five day forecast:
Unseasonably cold and rainy, highs in the mid-50s, lows in the upper 20s. Colder up in the Grand Tetons and in Yellowstone (where we will be spending all our time). Thunderstorms likely every day.
Here’s the [...]

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08 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Special delivery

Once you become the owner of a small business that operates nationwide, the days of simple tax returns are over. Lookee what arrived in the mail for me today:

My tax return is HUGE. Unfortunately, my tax refund is not. Apparently the quantity of pages in your tax return paperwork is in no way correlated to [...]

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07 April 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Tip it on the side, cello-oo! You’ve got a bass!

As I was tidying up the other day, I was horrified to discover that the cello Rob rented me for Christmas has actually, literally been collecting dust.
I learned to play the cello as a kid. Not Suzuki or anything serious — just orchestra class in school, and a few private lessons as I got older. I [...]

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05 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Skewered

There’s something about this beautiful weather that makes you feel like eating healthy. And there’s something about food on a stick that just tastes better.
Inevitably, there were going to be kebabs.

After a few failed attempts last summer, I am proud to say this year’s grilling debut was a huge, if surprising, success. (More photos here.)
Remind me [...]

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31 March 2010 ~ 2 Comments

It would have been enough

When I woke up this morning, something in me had changed. After struggling through more than a few weeks of internal darkness, suddenly, in the smallest of ways, everything was just a little bit warmer. Lighter. Sunnier.
Of course, today was one of the first mornings of spring that it was actually warm, light, and sunny [...]

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