Feb 08
Hello my dear followers. I’m back. Let’s hope 2010 is as great as 2009: laziness, mediocre athletic ability, reading stuff nobody cares about, watching movies everybody else watches, and bitching and moaning about things others could care less about.
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I’ve been back from Indiana for over a month now. My Christmas vacation was nothing of a Christmas vacation. It was a lot of driving between relatives homes and entertaining my nephews and niece, and trying to master the guitar on Beatles Rock Band.
Among the festive activities were: taking the kids to the dollar theater with smuggled in snacks to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. The miracle was two-fold. First, between the tickets and the smuggled in snacks, I got away with the entire trip under $20, compared to $45-50 at the big name brand theater. The second miracle was that none of the kids wanted to go to the bathroom during the film. Its the first time I sat through a whole movie with these boogers!
I made a cultural outing to the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend. It is connected to the Northern Indiana Center for History. The first part of the trip was seeing an exhibit on Knute Rockne and Abraham Lincoln, then we switched gears to look at cool old cars and Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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Dec 16
Well its that time of year again. I am headed back to the Motherland for my Christmas Sojourn and time for my annual roundup of the year that was 2009.
2009 was dotted with the spectacular, the heroic, the resurgence, and the fall of people, places and things. From the heroics of Capt. Sully, the return of Star Trek to the big screen, and yes, even Tiger Woods.
But what about me.
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Dec 05
Well it has been a week since I left the big city for the quiet of the suburbs and I am loving it. No hustle and bustle of city sounds and helicopters hovering overhead on final approach to Mass General.
The move went smoothly last weekend. I spent Thanksgiving Day with some friends. We went to a restaurant in Burlington and then went to see “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” at the movies. My former landlords were out of town, so I took it upon myself to bring some of the boxes from my 4th floor apartment down to the 1st floor.
I ran a lot of errands on Black Friday, which included heading to Target to buy some stuff for the new place. Luckily I did not have too much of a problem getting in and out of the store.
The movers came at 8AM on Saturday. Granted that almost half of the boxes were already on the 1st floor, but the movers took just an hour to empty my apartment of all its contents, which included wrapping my furniture and TV. Once they got to my new place in Arlington, they quickly off-loaded the truck in a half-hour.
I headed back to Boston to the apartment for one last time to clean up.
I was able to unpack most everything by Monday, except for my books, which needed some more bookcases, which I got and put together just today.
My place is bigger, its stable, its got working heat, I have my own entrance, and my landlord is really nice.
Its snowing tonight. The first of the season. I have my eggs and bread all ready for French Toast? You?
