This past weekend was spent in two very different states of being: the first, ultimate relaxation in Newport at the fifth annual summer party, complete with barbecue, frisbee, sleeping in, staying up, pong, dance parties, and dressing up in tinfoil and dancing to the Beastie Boys’ “Intergalactic.” That last one was new, but may well […]

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We all make choices in our daily lives; today, I chose between witnessing a moment in the political history of our country, and watching a morning matinee. Yesterday at work, I got a call from the Kerry-Edwards campaign offering me tickets to a rally to greet Sen. Kerry at the Charlestown Navy Yard this morning. […]

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Aimee and I celebrated her birthday this weekend – and so begin the six months of the year in which I’m only two years older than her, rather than three. We headed to the Museum of Science, a first for me (unless you count the late-night Radiohead Laser Light Show Josh and I went to […]

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Is a pace technically the same as a step? I read somewhere that a pace was the distance covered by taking two steps, but the Dictionary.com entry for “pace” doesn’t really concur. Anyway, 195 of ’em is the distance between my current apartment on Broadway and my new place on Antrim St., just down from […]

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Saturday was a touristy day in Boston for Aimee and me, as we hit both Fenway and Faneuil Hall, as well as a day for meeting up with friends we hadn’t seen in awhile. We started with a little packing in Aimee’s soon-to-be old apartment, and then walked to the park to see the some […]

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In the midst of the transfer of power we’re undergoing at work, I made a pitch for new computers for the four of us in the office. The purchase was somehow approved, so we got three new eMacs and a 1.6GHz G5. It was a great step up from my 3 year-old G4, but from […]

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Aimee and I ate dinner with Jean, Kevin, and Elisia to celebrate Elisia’s birthday at the Cheesecake Factory in Chestnut Hill; no one told us Jason Varitek would be joining us. OK, so he didn’t join us, but he did spend some quality time walking back and forth past us carrying or chasing after his […]

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No, I’m not singing the biggest hit by Yaz (or Yazoo if you’re anywhere but in the U.S., I’m talking about what I’m going to do at the end of July. Yesterday morning, I was informed by my landlady that she’s no longer going to be renting the four rooms in the house, and her […]

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Inspired by the recent fashion spread he did in this month’s Boston Magazine, we paid a visit to Little Joe Cook and the Thrillers at the The Cantab. I hadn’t been there in a few years, and hadn’t seen Little Joe, now 82 years old, since he’d had a stroke and had to cut back […]

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I visited my friend Jay at work today, cleaned house, and solved a mystery, all in one fell swoop. He works for The (Cambridge Dept. of Public) Works, at their Recycling Center, a mere three blocks from my house. I’d never seen it before, and I’ve got to say, it has pretty poor visibility. But […]

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Sunday was a busy Boston day, which began with a morning run from Aimee’s place to mine and back, in order to get the tickets for the day’s events that I had left at home. It didn’t take any longer to run than it does to drive on a bad traffic day, and the streets […]

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It’s been a big week in the world of technology: my first

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Aimee and I had a nice evening in J.P. last night, provided by Bukhara Bistro for Indian food and The Milky Way for drinks. We had planned to bowl, but upon entering the Milky Way we noticed there was a dj and would be a cover. So we headed down the street, past the empty […]

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By hook or by crook, my ’88 Honda Accord is slowly disappearing. First, my fifth gear disappeared while I was on the Mass Pike. Then, this evening, I discovered that my radio had disappeared while my car was parked outside my house. Now I realize, many would not call it “theft” if my car was […]

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After an afternoon of surprise, an evening of joy, a week of bliss, a week of “not talking about it,” and a week of fretting, Aimee and I went to Newport this past weekend to look at possible wedding locales for next summer. Along with the place comes the date, so we figured once we […]

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