Despite the lack of snow this year, we’re getting in the holiday spirit with some of our other family traditions. My parents’ Thanksgiving/early Christmas visit was a good occasion for brewing the first batch of gløgg of the season. Grace even helped out a little this time, though it’ll be awhile before she can sample […]

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My folks came out for Thanksgiving and an early Christmas this year, and we had a great time both at home and exploring New Haven and surroundings. My parents and Grace and I went to Gillette Castle, the elaborate, ornate, and very idiosyncratic home of William Gillette, the legendary Sherlockian actor. We picked up a […]

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We took ownership of a new car this week, a 2012 Golf TDI. It’s the first new car I’ve ever owned and the first car Aimee and I have bought together, but it’s not the first Volkswagen our family has owned. In fact, if I did the math right, it’s actually the tenth VW owned […]

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It all had to come to an end sometime, right? My third game of the day brought two new and formidable opponents, and once again, I felt the same during this game as I did during the others: out-gunned. I don’t know if I just never got the hang of it, or if I was […]

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Once again, I did not expect to be running back to the dressing room between shows as the Jeopardy! champion, but I excitedly changed into another dress shirt and headed back out on stage. I was up against two more formidable opponents, and once again felt somewhat out-gunned on the buzzer. Watching the show tonight, […]

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I began my second game, the last game to be taped that day, happy that I had won once and aware that I should be satisfied with that outcome. Of course, once you win once, you start thinking “Hey, I like this, I can keep this up,” and you don’t want to the feeling to […]

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On the morning of the big day, Aimee and Grace dropped me off at the Sony Studios lot at 8:30, just after we saw the Radisson shuttle pull in bringing out-of-town contestants from the hotel. I was glad to have been to a taping before, having seen how the process works and gotten some of […]

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The Air and Space Museum was always my favorite of the Smithsonian museums, and since the Udvar-Hazy Center, located near Dulles Airport, opened a few year ago, I’ve wanted to pay a visit. It’s always tempting you when you land there, but it’s never quite convenient enough for a visit. This time Scott had his […]

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When I’m traveling, I usually try to milk a day for all it’s worth, going from one thing to the next without much of a break, until I collapse in a pile of exhausted accomplishment at the end of the day. It’s how I operate, and it’s tempered by Aimee’s presence when we’re traveling together, […]

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Every once in awhile, we stop and ask ourselves what we did before Grace came along; it usually involves being what now seems like lazy or self-centered, or just busy doing baby-unfriendly things. I don’t know where blogging fits in there; we haven’t really done as much to write about, and I also have no […]

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During our trip to Ann Arbor this weekend for Paul and Vicky’s wedding, I snuck out to visit 826 Michigan’s Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair, the seventh and final 826 storefront I’ve visited. It was charming and full of fun surprises, like all the other stores, and I had a good time chatting with […]

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We took care of the most important improvements when we first moved in more than a year ago – getting rid of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, replacing the green tile in the bathroom, taking down every last inch of wallpaper – but the shed out back always seemed to me to have a lot of potential. […]

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I can finally say I’ve been to an opening for a font. Last night, House Industries held a reception for their new family of typefaces, Eames Century Modern, at the Eames Office just down Pico in Santa Monica. The event was great, a nice chance to look around the Eames office, rub shoulders with design […]

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As we enter a very busy month of March, a little catch-up on February before it slips away: it’s awards season, which has meant lots of screenings and some late nights of overtime. We also welcomed Caroline to L.A. from Austin, and enjoyed hanging out with her and Keith for dinner at Street as well […]

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We had a pretty busy weekend here, with lots of our typical activities. On Saturday, I did my weekly long morning run, and we took in two new movies, The Invention of Lying — a funny idea, but not enough to sustain an entire film — and A Serious Man, which was a terrific, well-observed, […]

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