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Month: September 2010

  • found: september

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    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    camera dump: september

  • auntie jojo, guest photographer

    [Guest Photographer, Jojo-Monster.]
    [Guest Photographer, Jojo-Monster.]
    [Guest Photographer, Jojo-Monster.]
    auntie jojo is town this weekend, which means we have all sorts of bonuses — extra set of hands, extra eyes for averting potential disasters, extra brain to cover the sleep deprived, extra attention span for she-who-has-separation-anxiety, and an extra person looking through the view finder. i hope she never leaves.
    see slideshow of the photos on flickr:
    auntie jojo, photos from guest photographer

  • “i got my passport, furball — where’s yours?”

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  • bucket envy

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    after last week’s fill-the-bucket-with-mulch-a-thon i decided to spring the $2.79 — i know, i know, it wouldn’t have been so expensive at IKEA — to buy sparklet a bucket of her very own.

    sparklet was so enraptured that she refused to give the bucket to the guy behind the counter to check out. now, if only we had some mulch to put in the bucket …

  • turns out you *can* put a price on everything

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    it was an interesting trip back from Williamsburg.

    we left right before nap time so she’s sleep on the way, but she threw up around mile 65, let forth a massive poo around mile 120, and then we finally gave up at mile 175 (Potomac Mills) because we just couldn’t stand being in the car any longer. (she never napped.)

    the one thing i love about IKEA is because it is a lot like taco bell — try as you may, it’s really hard to walk out of there spending more than half at what you’d spend at any of their competitors.

    seriously, we got sparklet her birthday presents — a table/chair set and a 6-foot long alligator/crocodile (i can never tell the difference, especially when fake) — and all together they cost $0.37.

    oh, if you see sparklet, don’t tell her what we got her for her birthday. don’t want to ruin the surprise.

    UPDATE: in the small miracles department, sparklet slept through the night after skipping her afternoon nap on the way back from williamsburg. i’m not sure the 12 hours of uninterrupted sleep is worth the pain of cranky daytime sparklet, but it’s a hypothetical that i’m willing to explore 🙂

  • firsts: crayons

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    one could argue that this is sparklet’s second use of crayons, but if she drew my father’s day present without mommy’s help then we seriously need to pass on pre-school and send her straight to the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

    first crayons: plaza azteca, williamsburg, virginia.

  • playtime

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    [Grant Poppa Roberts, Williamsburg, Virginia]
    See All the Photos on Flickr:
    playtime in williamsburg, virginia

  • travel: williamsburg, virginia

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    quick trip to williamsburg to see the gram, grampa and poppa. we’ll see the grandparents in a couple of weeks for sparklet’s first birthday — crazy, i know — but the next time we see poppa might not be until christmas.
    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    travel: williamsburg, virginia

  • week fifty

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    photo of the week // week fifty

  • fill the bucket, empty the bucket

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    i just spent 10 minutes watching sparklet fill the dump truck with mulch, empty the mulch from the dump truck, fill the dump truck, empty the dump truck …

    when she finally got bored with that she found a bucket — and i spent 15 minutes watching sparklet fill the bucket with mulch, empty the bucket of mulch, fill the bucket of mulch, empty the bucket of mulch …

    i actually have video proof — but it is not for the those with a low threshold of boredom.

    … and i only took the video because i needed something to do to prevent me from lapsing into a coma.

    i can’t believe i have a worse case of A.D.D. than my child. where did she get this attention span from?

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    fill the bucket, guy mason park, glover park, dc

  • video: zoom, zoom

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2XMBsUQKU

  • sleep training

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    well, it’s probably no secret that sparklet ain’t sleeping much.

    we had a nice window of largely uninterrupted overnight sleeping between month four and month nine, but it’s been some variation on the 10pm/1am/4am wakey-wakey-eggs-and-bakey theme since then.

    in a feeble attempt to demostrate parenting leadership, we’ve launched on a campaign of sleep training.

    (fwiw, i have no idea what that means either, other than it makes us feel better that we’re doing something.)

    there seems to be two big problems:

    first (in the immortal words of our pediatrician) if you wake up every night at 1am and eat a sandwich, pretty soon you’ll be up every night at 1am looking for a sandwich.

    so, as of last Friday, no more overnight sandwiches for sparklet.

    the other issue is some kind of separation anxiety from mommy — whenever the lady sparkler leaves the nursery over night, baby sparklet is awake 5 minutes later (or less) screaming for company.

    ironically, daddy leaving the room seems to have no such effect.

    this, of course, is one of those double slaps in the face. first slap? she doesn’t care if daddy leaves the room. nice. second slap? i’ve become “the closer,” and am now on baby duty each every time she wakes up during the middle of the night, because realistically i’m the only one that can get her back down.

    it’s like rain on your wedding day. or a free ride when you’ve already paid.

    crazy.

  • preview: costa rica

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    friends of ours are getting married this december — some of the very same friends who shared this charming RFK moment with us many years back.

    he’s costa rican, she’s from ohio.

    i’m not exactly sure how long they debated about which hometown would hold the wedding, but i’m guessing it took about as long as us deciding to attend ourselves.

    the wedding is in the Guanacaste region of northwest Costa Rica, and we’ll tack on some time before hand around the volcanos of Arenal.

    and, sparklet’s getting a passport.

    part of the reason we’re going is because sparklet will be at such a good age — 15 months, which is old enough to walk and old enough to be amazed by the animals and old enough to eat sand.

    we’ve already filled out her passport paperwork (that’s the photo we used, above) and we’ve bought us some plane tickets (sparklet get’s her very own seat).

    now, we just need places to stay, some way to get around, and some really big suitcases.

  • sunday afternoon

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    out: playground at walter pierce park, adams-morgan, washington, dc; playground at guy mason park, glover park, washington, dc.

  • video: first steps towards walking

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uYapFWrrX0

    sparklet’s been taking three or four steps for a couple weeks now — far, but not far enough to get out the video camera.

    today we finally got our act together and took her out to a nearby ballfield (guy mason park in glover park). that gave us enough space to put the camera on a tripod, which giving us the four hands required for this sort of walk-training instead of just two.

  • “this… stuff … is… AWESOME!”

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  • week forty-nine

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    photo of the week // week forty-nine

  • found: babies eat free

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  • hike: schaeffer farm, seneca creek state park, maryland

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    trail information:
    Trailhead: 39.142838, -77.310373 (Google Maps); Length: 3.5 total miles; Elevation Gain: Minimal; Trail Type: Loop; Skill Level: Easy.
    See All the Photos on Flickr:
    hike: schaeffer farm trails, seneca creek state park, boyds, maryland

  • video: catch

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxM1aibiZE

  • firsts: shoes and socks

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    shoes and socks

  • photos: bear rocks preserve, west virginia

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    photos: bear rocks preserve, west virginia

  • photos: monongahela national forest, west virginia

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    photos: monongahela national forest, west virginia

  • wishing

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    we’ve got a new CMO at work — chief marketing officer — and i’ve been itching to meet him.

    i’m itching partly because i’ve heard such great things, and partly because i don’t have a good track record with meeting my “C”-level executives so i want to get it out of the way.

    see, when i first started at my current gig i met the then CEO … on my second day … in the 2nd floor bathroom.

    it was awkward as hell, and over the next four years he proceeded to introduce himself to me each and every time he saw me, never once remembering that we had met before.

    about three years ago we got another CEO and about a month into his tenure i met *him* for the first time … in the 4th floor bathroom.

    it was awkward as hell, and I haven’t really talked with him since.

    so it was with GREAT relief that i made it to the conference (which our new CMO is leading/attending) without any untimely meetings in a bathroom back in the worldwide office.

    it just so happens that i met our new CMO this morning … in the bathroom of conference center … while i was actively using the, er, facilities.

    it was awkward as hell.

    no word yet on if we’ll ever speak again.

  • archive: the year in tweets, 2009-2010

    I started tweeting two years ago, today — so i’m archiving another batch posterity, on the off chance that Twitter goes belly up and takes their historical archive with them. Not bloody likely, but I’m neurotic like that.

    14 Sep 10 … i just spent 45 minutes watching TV on mute so i don’t wake the baby. i’m 300 miles away at a conference for work.
    8 Sep 10 … i just watched … two minutes! … of Aftermath with William Shatner … before his speach pattern … forced me … to turn it off.
    1 Sep 10 … froyo!!!
    26 Aug 10 … oh, and the zoo becomes much more interesting when your daughter wants to climb into the pens.
    26 Aug 10 … there is something about the use of a toddler “leash” that creeps me out.
    25 Aug 10 … awww. little kids with backpacks, shuffling off to school. it’s the only time of year when i’m happy to be old.
    16 Aug 10 … not much can top watching kids from an inner-city school seeing a panda for the first time.
    14 Aug 10 … are you ready for some futbol?
    14 Aug 10 … fifteen minutes late to the Nats game, and they’re already losing.
    13 Aug 10 … last night i saw a 60-year old drunk woman jump onto her table and start dancing. we shall never speak of this again.
    12 Aug 10 … i have somehow pulled a hamstring, which would be more tolerable if i had actually exercised at some point in the last 18 months.
    11 Aug 10 … my current book of stamps are for 39 cents. i’ve missed 3 rate increases, and apparently haven’t mailed anything since 2006.
    7 Aug 10 … dude, I can’t take you seriously as an angry-tailgating-hipster when you’re driving a PT Cruiser. not gonna happen.
    7 Aug 10 … just tried to engage the turn signal on our stroller. might be time for a nap.
    29 Jul 10 … weekend, in no particular order: reunion, cousins, boating, bowling, remembering, seafood, family birthday and a trip to Fenway. nice.
    26 Jul 10 … this “I’m tired so I’m going to sit up” phase is getting pretty old.
    22 Jul 10 … in my tivo queue, “b-girl: a young woman overcomes obstacles to complete in underground break-dancing.” uuuhhhm, Tasha??
    20 Jul 10 … hey, Jeff Smith (@SpeakUpW1). thx for waking my sleeping baby to canvass me about your campaign. let’s not do that again, maybe?
    15 Jul 10 … I feel like I need some kind of large sporting event to monopolize my time.
    9 Jul 10 … no way LaBron wins a championship in the next three years, which makes him throwing Cleveland under the bus that much sadder.
    7 Jul 10 … date night!
    3 Jul 10 … #$%&@ Germany. I’m running out of teams to root for.
    27 Jun 10 … if I’m in the running to be the youngest person seeing a concert at your venue, it’s time to rethink your business model.
    27 Jun 10 … pretty sure I just set a record for most times getting cut-off in a single trip to home depot. I [heart] suburbia.
    26 Jun 10 … this is why I’m proud to be Canadian.
    23 Jun 10 … watching tape of France v So Africa. feel like I owe it to watch the hosts win. feel like Im owed watching the French vomit on themslvs.
    22 Jun 10 … watching CNN raise money for the Conservancy’s work in the Gulf. I love watching someone else do my job for me.
    18 Jun 10 … “i’mmm rocket powwwered, slooow motion through the sky.” http://youtu.be/ELZ0k4xoMwk
    18 Jun 10 … I honesty have no clue where I street parked my car last night. you suburban people with your fancy “driveways” suck.
    16 Jun 10 … at the Tift Merritt concert. There’s like 12 people here, and the guy at the front asked to check my purse. Not a good night so far.
    16 Jun 10 … going to a rock n’ roll show tomorrow (well, Tift Merritt) and it’s making me feel so young and hip (except that it’s Tift Merritt).
    11 Jun 10 … i’m watching the world cup, and you can too — a primer: http://shar.es/mAyN5
    7 Jun 10 … beat L.A.! beat L.A.!
    29 May 10 … pitcher of shiner bock, watching the Celtics. Houston is *exactly* like the western part of Massachusetts.
    25 May 10 … sparklet just grabbed me by both ears and started gnawing on my nose. think she might be hungry.
    20 May 10 … girl just posed for a picture in front of the logo on our building at work. ahhh, it must be intern season.
    16 May 10 … there’s a lot of crazy looking things at the zoo today, and they all seem to be on the wrong side of the glass.
    9 May 10 … my 21 lbs, 30 inch, 6 month-old baby is going through another growth spurt. <shudder>
    6 May 10 … champions league for tottenham hotspur! I know nobody knows what that means, but trust me its a really big deal.
    2 May 10 … God, this baby is cute.
    26 Apr 10 … it’s five years with @nature_org for me, almost two years longer than i’ve held any other job. oh, where has the time gone?
    24 Apr 10 … sadly, @koonsauto doesn’t seem to be taking the toyota recall very seriously | http://bit.ly/ay4ntX
    24 Apr 10 … yay! @koonsauto agreed to fix the issue with the prius recall, and in record time | http://bit.ly/ay4ntX
    24 Apr 10 … you lose the right to criticize my driving if (a) you’re actively jaywalking, or (b) wearing green short pants w/ embroidered puppies.
    23 Apr 10 … the only thing worse than a dentist appointment is arriving to find the office closed, and knowing you’ll have to do it all over again.
    23 Apr 10 … waiting for the bus with a woman in a full burkha, with a closed face and gloves. that’s pretty hardcore for this part of DC.
    20 Apr 10 … and i, for one, welcome our new #prius overlord.
    18 Apr 10 … thinking of getting a 2008 Toyota Prius (VI). anything we should be concerned about?
    12 Apr 10 … my email inbox has no apparent function beyond collecting Facebook notifications.
    10 Apr 10 … wow, t-shirt just set new bar for jingoism: “If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a soldier.”
    7 Apr 10 … I was just pick-pocketed by a five month-old. life as i knew it is pretty much over.
    5 Apr 10 … thanks for all the birthday wishes! I love you guys 🙂
    28 Mar 10 … neighbor just asked for two ethernet cables and a networking hub. is this the new cup of sugar?
    26 Mar 10 … what happens in middle america that makes tourists think it’s okay to walk 7 abreast on DC sidewalks?
    22 Mar 10 … feeling silly because i stayed up last night to watch, not basketball, but the health care vote on CSPAN.
    16 Mar 10 … we’re talking about you, Jon Colman. are your ears burning?
    13 Mar 10 … way to go, terps. nothing says “we’re best in the conference” quite like losing your first game in the tournament.
    10 Mar 10 … as certain as any law of physics, a baby’s likelihood of waking up early is directly related to your need/ability to sleep in.
    9 Mar 10 … trying to figure out who to blame for the forest of white hairs that has sprouted from my noggin’.
    3 Mar 10 … “facebook and omniture are huge advocates for privacy.” #omtrsummit
    3 Mar 10 … either i’m really bad at picking breakout sessions, or my expectations are just way too high. #omtrsummit
    3 Mar 10 … it’s 9:00 am and i’m at Club Dork? #omtrsummit — http://tweetphoto.com/13123004
    3 Mar 10 … The Killers are playing tonight at #omtrsummit!?! our subscription fees are obviously way too high if they can afford that.
    2 Mar 10 … why I don’t watch CNN: “Is US Quake Next? 75 million Americans at Risk”
    27 Feb 10 … phrase I was not expecting to hear tonight: “is that Susan Boyle singing ‘Wild Horses’?”
    21 Feb 10 … who has a phone they use as an mp3 player, that’s on verizon, that doesn’t suck? need an excuse to toss my AT&T/iPhone in the toilet.
    15 Feb 10 … there is a nun ice-skating on the National Mall. I wish I was making this up.
    25 Jan 10 … does it count as an “outing” if you’re just pushing around a sleeping baby?
    7 Jan 10 … how #att has made me swear off my #iphone — http://theparkerfamily.org/musings/posts/3625
    27 Dec 09 … first date with wife in three months. no clue what to talk about that doesn’t involve diapers. wish me luck.
    9 Dec 09 … you forget how diverse DC is until you are standing in line at the courthouse for jury duty.
    2 Dec 09 … snickering because my Chinese-made computer is stuck in a customs review by the Dept of Agriculture. Wrong type of “Apple” boys.
    18 Nov 09 … mourning the death of Ken Ober, host of MTV’s classic game show “Remote Control” – http://tinyurl.com/ygj2qnl
    6 Nov 09 … if people made babies before Peapod delivered groceries, I don’t want to even think about it.
    5 Nov 09 … left iPhone in car last night, and dreamt that it was stolen so I could switch to a network that didn’t suck hairy butt.
    13 Oct 09 … “either the baby is sitting on my bladder or my water just broke. not sure which.”
    13 Oct 09 … “where are we going again? no seriously, grab my iPhone. I have no clue where the hospital is.”
    13 Oct 09 … mommy is doing great, and dr says we’re about half way there. looks like baby sparklet wants to parrr-tay tonight.
    11 Oct 09 … well, the good news about the Red Sox is that I now have pleanty of free time for the rest of October.
    10 Oct 09 … new low. left TiVo remote in other room, and just downloaded a TiVo Remote app for the iPhone to avoid having to get up and get it.
    9 Oct 09 … it’s 11:03 pm, and just closed the 4th inning. way to make the MLB playoffs accessable to the masses there Commish.
    6 Oct 09 … we’re deciding between BBQ and Ben’s Chili Bowl for anniversary dinner tonight. did I mention that I love my wife?!?
    4 Oct 09 … you know you are married and pregnant when saturday night excitement is walking to the target to look at baby crap.
    3 Oct 09 … watching William & Mary football in HD, which confirms that there are waaaay too many channels looking for programming these days.
    28 Sep 09 … u2 concert tmrw, with 8 month preggers wife. thinking about pillows and duct tape for makeshift belly “ear muffs.”
    27 Sep 09 … glad I’m not a Redskins fan.

  • photos: stonewall jackson lake state park, west virginia

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    photos: stonewall jackson lake state park, west virginia

  • unhappy electorate

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    there’s a tough primary for Mayor in D.C. today, between an incumbent (Fenty) who seems only interested in the white people of northwest, and the challenger (Gray) who seems more intent on spreading the city-coffers-love around to the other quarter million people who live more east and south.

    it’s like the ultimate in liberal dilemma — do you vote for the person who clearly most benefits you, or the person who will most benefit the people who need the most benefit?

    fortunately for me, i don’t actually have to make a decision between the two evils — because D.C. forgot to send me the absentee ballot i requested, and West Virginia is a long, long way away from the ballot boxes.

    it’s too bad, because this is my one chance to vote this year — with 75% of D.C. voters registered as Democtats, the Repubs aren’t even expected to field a Mayoral candidate for the general.

  • found: seems like good advice considering the alternative

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  • photos: West Virginia Route 55

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    route 55 cuts through the Monongahela National Forest, taking people from Front Royal, Virginia in the east through to central West Virginia, near where my conference is being held.

    the landscapes along the route are exotic — much more like rural Australia and much less like what i’d have expected being only a couple hundred miles from D.C..

    See Slideshow of Photos on Flickr:
    photos: West Virginia Route 55

  • travel: stonewall, west virginia

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    i’m off for a couple of days — work is having an internal marketing conference out in west virginia for a couple of days, which means i won’t be back until Thursday.

    the conference is actually at resort that is part of a west virginia state park, and isn’t too too far from Monongahela National Forest.

    i’ve looked over the conference materials and there is less than three hours built into the schedule for us to actually be out in nature — which is ironic considering who i work for — but i’m taking the “good” camera for the pretty stuff on the drive out and back.

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    travel: stonewall resort, west virginia

  • found: chris berman

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    Separated at Birth?
    Sparklet and ESPN anchor Chris Berman — you make the call.

  • guestbook: mike, mina and ita

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    guestbook: mike, mina and rita

  • out: turtle park

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    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    out: turtle park, washington, dc

  • getting-a-toy-from-the-toy-box FAIL

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  • “now, where did i hide my copy of Altas Shrugged?”

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    photo of the week // eleven months

  • video: showing off on the rocking horse

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozYDadpF4Ok

  • gestures

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    i’ve been putting off writing this post, because i’ve been sorta hoping that sparklet would stop. it’s been three months. she hasn’t.

    sparklet likes flicking people off — a lot.

    she does it dozens of times a day, even though we’ve only been called on it a handful of times — comments from strangers like “bet you can’t wait for her to pick a different finger” or “that must make you nervous to walk her east of 14th street.”

    yup, and yup.

  • week forty-seven

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    photo of the week // week forty-seven

  • firsts: walking with a walker

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_lhPSOQ0E

    while this is technically her second time walking with some kind of mechanical assistance, it’s the first time we’ve gotten video.

    (video from Rose Park, in Georgetown.)

  • out: georgetown waterfront

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  • video: outake

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCQomotAm-A

    up until this weekend, i was about two months behind on stitching together videos — and i’m starting to understand how people end up with stacks and stacks of mini-dv tapes piled up on a shelf, collecting dust.

    but, before you watch any of the rest of the videos, watch the outtake above. laugh-out-loud funny. in hindsight.

    • stairs — sparklet is moving up and down stairs like nobody’s business. of course, we don’t have any, so we have to borrow the stairs at the playground.
    • baby/birds in a bucket — the full session that produced the (hilarious!) outake above.
    • bubble gum — two rules, do something cute and don’t eat the camera. did okay on the first. not so much on the latter.
    • sparklet’s first film — it’s a little avant guarde. or maybe just weird for the sake of being weird. but who am i to judge?

  • guestbook: chris & sean

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    guestbook (2009-10)

  • camp: cunningham state park

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    everyone’s favorite groomsmaid is in town this weekend, camping with her family. drove up for the morning, and snuck in a little swimming. hopefully next time we’re in a campground, we’ll actually be spending the night.
    See All the Photos on Flickr:
    cunningham state park, thurmond, maryland

  • “hey, baby … come here often?”

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  • video: stairs

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiNoKIyCGMM

    sparklet is moving up and down stairs like nobody’s business. of course, we don’t have any, so we have to borrow them from the playground.

  • hike: stony man trail, shenandoah national park, virginia

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    trail information:
    Trailhead: 38.589168, -78.374405 (Google Maps); Length: 1.6 total miles; Elevation Gain: 320 feet; Trail Type: Loop; Skill Level: Easy.
    See a Slideshow the Photos on Flickr:
    stony man mountain, shenandoah national park, virginia

  • proud papa

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    the lions at the zoo just had babies — four of them — and not knowing anything about animal husbandry, sparklet and i wandered up to the exhibit to see if they’d be out running around yet.

    no babies, but dad was there.

    which brings up a good point — if the lady sparkler ever comes home with four babies, i’m taking papa lion’s lead by running into the back yard, climbing on top of the highest point, and hoping for the chaos will subside without my active participation.

  • video: road trip

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqc9XgNbjeM

  • accident vs. incompetence

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    soooo, i rear ended someone today in our (somewhat) new (to us) prius. i’m fine, and *certainly* wasn’t at fault, but it reminds me how much i hate driving on the wrong side of the river.

    here are the things that the driver (from Virginia, natch) did wrong (with a photo illustration in case you get confused):

    1. he was coming from alexandria, so in order to be where he was he had to illegally cut across at least one lane of traffic to get there.
    2. he ignored a “circle traffic must stay in the circle during rush hour” sign, and pulled out into the flow of traffic.
    3. he cut across four lanes of traffic — four! — including three lanes with solid white lines.
    4. he cut me off, and then immediately slammed on his breaks for a pedestrian in the crosswalk.

    the only good news is that he stopped, and didn’t hit the pedestrian (who was emerging from behind a big lumbering passenger van).

    that’s when it got fun.

    he blamed the van driver for “letting” the pedestrian use the crosswalk, and then eagerly blew off the damage to his car (you can make out the outline of my license plate on his rear bumper) to get the heck out of dodge.

    i double checked The Prius soon after i started breathing again, and no damage to my car — or me, for that matter. he did give me his information after i took a picture of his license plate, but strangely didn’t seem interested in waiting for mine.

    wonder if he’ll do that little stunt again.