Category: Family
Wedding Weekend
Back from Malvern, PA, where Jordan and I attended Caroline and Brad’s wedding. Photos from the digicam are here. I shot a few rolls of film with the Leica that I’ll get developed this week.
It was a beautiful weekend — on the drive down on Friday it seemed that everyone had played hooky to take advantage of the weather. I was shuttling several boxes of cupcakes from Joyce bakeshop for the rehearsal dinner, and they were an absolute hit. I felt kinda bad for eating three, considering I can get them here anytime. But the feeling went away after a few bites.
The day of the wedding we were apparently within spitting distance of an Obama rally in Paoli, the next town over. Caroline wanted to show up in her wedding dress for a photo op with Barack.
KO’d
Got sucker-punched by the flu this past Wednesday. Spent Thursday working from home, but by Friday I just packed it in and hibernated through Saturday. This came just as we’re finishing up the project I’ve been working on for the last several months, which made for the worst possible timing.
Mom stopped in to visit us Saturday evening, and today she was off to meet an old friend of hers from Manila. She got to see Jordan sing in church this morning, before heading off to catch a Broadway show with her friend.
Nice to see my new(ish) tv made the top of the heap in a recent showdown. Malice recently got a new flat-panel and we were discussing the relative merits of 1080p resolution. Is it worth it? Here’s one chart on different seating differences related to the screen resolution we can discern.
Of course, all of this comes as Pioneer announced they would start sourcing their plasma panels from Matsushita, which led to a fair amount of panic in the online echo chamber about the fate of the Kuro line. Pioneer swears it won’t make a difference in quality.
Happy Birthday, Mom
My Mom’s birthday is today. We were in Belchertown over the weekend celebrating hers and Jordan’s birthdays. This shot is from her opening a gift from Kristen and Joseph.
Catching Up
Lots of stuff on the burner. Finishing a big project at work, so I’ve been quiet on this space for a bit longer than I anticipated.
Evan brought me along to see the Kings/Rangers game last week, which proves what a great guy he is – burning one of his season-ticket shares on a last-place west-coast team is a lot to ask, and going into the game I hoped that the Kings would just do me a solid and at least make things interesting. Somehow they managed to sneak away with a 4-2 win, with Frolov playing a whale of a game against the surprisingly sluggish Rangers. Sean Avery was running around early in the game, perhaps trying to show up the Kings for trading him exactly a year ago. It was great to see the kids like Kopitar and Boyle score. Given how horribly the Kings’ season has gone this year, at least there’s plenty of young talent to look forward to.
Visited Mom in fair Belchertown, MA a few weekends ago. My (newly-engaged) brother and his fiancée Kristen made the trip out from Boston and joined me for a weekend of skating on the backyard rink. Check the recent flickr stuff for a few shots of us out on the ice. Dad expanded things to 60 by 40 feet this year, and it was nice to fly around and build up speed out there. However, all that work didn’t save me from getting laid out multiple times in the Sled Dogs’ last game, a 5-3 loss to the Hotshots.
Other recent distractions: a new Pioneer flat panel. After five years, my trusty Samsung CRT HDTV will be getting a new home with Joseph and Kristen. I will say that the Samsung is no slouch compared to the new panel, proving once again that it’s hard to beat CRTs for picture quality. That said, having the extra screen real estate is nice. Bluray discs and upscaled DVDs from the PS3 look fantastic – I have a feeling I’ll be loading up the Netflix queue again. The Pioneer also came just in time for new episodes of LOST. I’m not listening to the haters – last year’s finale got me back on the Oceanic 815 bandwagon and so far things haven’t disappointed.
I’m also playing Uncharted, and I’ve switched over to Nullriver’s MediaLink software to pipe my music, photos, and videos from my Mac to the PS3.
Somewhere in there I also upgraded to Leopard, which I’ll pay a compliment by saying that it hasn’t gotten in my way at all.
Anniversary Weekend
Jordan and I reached our two-year wedding anniversary today, but since the day fell on a Monday we ended up celebrating this past weekend. Friday we saw The Farnsworth Invention, the new play from Aaron Sorkin starring Hank Azaria. Sorkin’s Farnsworth mania stretches back a while I remember the story popping up in an episode of Sports Night.
Saturday we had dinner at Perilla in the West Village, which tv nerds will recognize as the restaurant opened by Harold Dieterle, winner of Top Chef season one. The food was very good, and unpretentious. I have four words for you: Pancetta-wrapped Pork Loin.
