Aimee and I tackled a bunch of items on our big list of Things to Do in Rochester this long weekend. We started off with dinner Friday night at Sinbad’s on Park Ave., where I had a delicious “pitza” (pizza on a pita). On Saturday, we had breakfast at Highland Park Diner, the last “Orleans” […]

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When I bought my dad’s ’95 Golf last year, it made a lot of sense, planning, as we were, to move to the Pacific Northwest, not far from the car’s home in Alaska. A quick trip on a ferry, or a nice drive down the Alcan, and she’d be home. When our plans changed and […]

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I arrived back home in Rochester this afternoon after the ten day drive from Seattle, happy with the car and happy to be back. The trip took us through twelve states, and we visited family and friends all along the way. It was a terrific road trip, with all of the right ingredients: bizarre roadside […]

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I’ve taken a few photos of our new place and posted them on Flickr. We’re heading out to Seattle now and we’ll be driving back via friends and family in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and Chicago over the next ten days.

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With the arrival of the cable guy today, and the phone, internet, and tv connection he brought with him, we’re finally feeling settled. Nearly all of the boxes are tucked away in the attic or ready to be recycled, and our furniture is probably where it will stay. We’ve been steadily unpacking, putting things away, […]

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The blog will be on a bit more of a hiatus for the next few weeks than it already has been; the great move has begun. This morning, we rented a 26′ Penske truck in New Haven, went to IKEA, threw an Ektorp and a Norden in the truck, and then picked up more items […]

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Ah, the end of an era. It’s my last day at work today, and I am pleased to present the last message in a series from Ms. Karen Freeman. This is the second of two I received while away from work for a few weeks; the caller obviously possessed the determination necessary to listen to […]

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After returning from the wedding and honeymoon, I had just five days of work left, time I would spend cleaning up the office, tying up loose ends, getting down on paper what it is I do all day to help with the transition. Little did I know I’d be blessed with two more messages from […]

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Last night, Aimee and I headed to the Paradise for one more show, catching Liz Phair at the beginning of her pre-album acoustic tour. The relationship I have to Phair’s music is one of the more complicated, troubling ones I have to any artist. Her first album is so good, so interesting, and so evocative, […]

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We arrived back from our honeymoon on Saturday night, which was quickly followed by Aimee’s birthday on Sunday and the beginning of some serious packing starting yesterday, so it’s been a bit of a whirlwind. Thankfully, a whirlwind is the exact opposite of our last week in Belize, which was incredibly relaxing and very restful. […]

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The weekend we’ve been waiting for has finally come and gone, and what a weekend it was… Friends and family came from all over the world to celebrate with Aimee and me in Newport as we got married on July 9th. I came down on Wednesday night and stayed at Aimee’s house while we got […]

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More to come.

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Nothing like two weddings in a week, especially if one of them is your own… I’m currently sitting in the Alaska Airlines Board Room at the Seattle-Tacoma airport, using their wireless internet, munching on carrots and drinking a beer. I got an automated call this weekend informing me I’d been upgraded to first class, and […]

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It’s been a busy week and weekend, and it’s only the beginning. Last week, Aimee got an interview with a school district up in Rochester, so we hopped in the car Wednesday night for a Thursday morning interview. By Thursday night, we were back, and by Friday morning, she’d been offered a job. That’s the […]

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I’ve been busy this week packing up and moving boxes over to Aimee’s a few boxes at a time, because I figure it’s less maddening if I move over a few weeks than if I do one big move and spend the whole time thinking about how I’ll be moving all of the same stuff […]

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