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I’ve returned from a four-day trip, and I’m exhausted. I left Friday morning with Patrick, headed for Ithaca to go to our friend Claire’s wedding. The drive wasn’t bad, and we arrived in early evening. We headed straight for the Commons, which is pretty much Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, only it sucks. Well, that’s not fair, …
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Tomorrow, off to Ithaca. It’s not nearly as far as Boston — it’s something like 7.5 hours, compared to 12 to Boston. Ithaca isn’t as far north as I’d feared. My old friend Claire (our friendship is old, not her) is getting married; she’s a grad. student at Cornell. Back on Sunday evening.
Amber and I got back from Boston late Sunday night. We managed to pack a lot into a short trip, seeing the sights of the city, visiting with family, seeing a most excellent Sox game, a pretty decent DMB show, and even getting fairly lost a couple of times. On the way back south, we …
Amber and I are off to Boston in the morning. It’s a long drive, but we intend to make it in time for the Bo Sox game at 6:05pm. We’ll also be seeing DMB at Foxboro, our second show of the tour. We’ll see some of my family, on both my mother’s and father’s side. …
Amber and I hit a deer yesterday. We’d just watched the Boar’s Head Inn balloons land at Forest Lakes, and were slowing driving back to her house through the dusk. Rounding a curve of the quiet country road, a deer (previously hidden by trees and brush) stepped into the road, about three feet from us. …
According to Forbes, C’ville is the #12 small city in which to start a business. That’s good news, but I can’t help but wonder how accurate that it is. I mean, I’m totally happy to have started a business here a couple of years previously, but I’d think twice before starting one now. At least, …
I had my very first drilling for my very first cavities today. I’ve always been a good li’l brusher, and had no need for such things. But I hadn’t been to the dentist since at least 1995 (probably longer), and I just went a few weeks. I’ve got something like half a dozen “pits,” which …
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Noah got digital cable. He wanted to get the Outdoor Life Network, which requires getting Adelphia‘s fancy-pants digital cable. I was (relatively) happy with our fifteen channels, but when a roommate wants to get hundreds of channels, well, why argue? Anyhow, what’s interesting here is the cable box. It’s incredible. It’s the Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 3100. …
I’ve been thinking about the Chamber of Commerce. Every town has one, and we’ve got one, just like everybody else. I’m not sure that there’s anything that makes ours in any way special or different, it’s just a chamber. Anyhow, the Charlottesville Chamber tries to get us to join every so often. Not with unreasonable …