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my mom got me this! seriously, she is the BEST.
you never, EVER have to burn out. you could be like 500 years old and if you’re still in love with what you do, you never have to act old, you never have to compromise, you never have to be mediocre, you never have to slow [...]

i’m going to be honest. the phillies organization has burned me so many times over the past fifteen years that i can’t tell if my less than unbridled enthusiasm towards the phils’ world series berth is due to it not yet sinking in or if i’m still harboring resentment towards an ownership that has very [...]

- where i’ve been: monica & i moved at the beginning of june. we started out looking for something older and with character but guess what, character takes a lot of freaking work! we ended up opting for a 9 year old house in the heart of suburbia. honestly, i would be just as happy [...]

you can’t mess with griffin. taken by kristin k. 10/07/07
Mark Griffin, 35 years old of West Hartford CT, died Monday June 2 surrounded by family and friends. He grew up in Sayreville, NJ.
He attended Sayreville HS (1991) and the Joe Kubert School (1997). Working as an illustrator, he also created his own comics: [...]

site was down yesterday due to an ipowerweb update/move and when it came back, all of my posts were in reverse order. an upgrade to WP 2.5 sorted everything out but the .zip download is missing the wp-admin and wp-includes directories. the .tar file had everything though. i’ve been increasingly annoyed with ipowerweb and the [...]

“go hiking more” is one of my current goals on 43 things and i’ve been doing a pretty good job of following through on it this year. most of my waking moments are spent in a sea of overstimuli and there’s something very appealing to me about going to a place where it’s actually quiet [...]

aaron <3s padma, padma can think of a thousand other places she’d rather be
i don’t watch a lot of episodic tv nor do i nerd out over a lot of shows but top chef is one of those rare exceptions; i totally love it. the premise is sound, the hosts have cred and play their [...]

from the apple of discord blog:
Our friends Mike & Kim put on shows at Rockwells, an all-ages venue in Sicklerville NJ. Monica and I saw Denison Witmer there last year, it’s an awesome space, the kids are great and Kim & co. put out a ridiculous spread of food. Stir-fry tofu anyone?
They’ve been helping out [...]

photo by kristin k. that’s my impression of a bald eagle. seriously.
since the last trip i took to mount tammany seemed like so much fun, a bunch of friends came along when i returned at the beginning of november. it was absolutely perfect weather. the turnover from the summer that wouldn’t end to autumn was [...]