It's a general dumping ground for whatever stuff I feel like putting on the internet! This is the index page to make it more presentable to anyone who really digs white space and red lines. Mainly I have various photo albums, more detailed accounts than anyone needs about several trips, and humor (of course).
Blog and Facebook
Blog - Strangely, since 2007 I've succeeded at keeping up a blog for my friends and family, which if you want to see, go visit it or ask me for the link!
Facebook - I have Facebook. I didn't think I'd like it that much, but I do. You have to have an account to use the site; however, you can link to photo albums without being a member so I'm cataloging them here too on a separate page.
External Photo Albums - Links to all of the photo albums I've uploaded on other sites.
Travel
Mr. Stinky Adventure - Spring, 1998. An enormous stinky blossom emerges in Miami's botanical garden. At the height of its power, the stench can fell a grown man. Naturally I go and see it.
Berkeley - Spring, 1999. I visit my cousin Kristen in Berkeley and do not get high.
El Road Trip to NYC and Thereabouts - Summer, 2000. Dad throws out his back, so the summer family trip goes on leave for a year. Keith and I go to see Lisa in the Big Apple have some additional adventures for good measure.
Lindsay and Claire's Trip to Cities in Tennessee and Indiana that Should be in Ohio - Spring, 2002. For reasons that are now obscure to me, I consider attending grad school for journalism. To make the trip to inspect Indiana University fun, I invite Claire along, and we visit Mammoth Cave, inspect an institution of higher learning, and become involved in an ice storm.
Reno-Tahoe Trip - Summer, 2002. I add a new state to my life list when I visit Arlene (wow, someone I haven't known since middle school; someone I met when I was in college) in her new home in Nevada.
Canada 2002 - Summer, 2002. A busy summer continues. The family returns to the cabin in Canada, but instead of all four of us in one car, we split up, and Keith and I first visit Lisa and the three of us go from New York to Quebec before Keith and I continue on to Ontario. Once in Canada, we become embroiled in that year's cabin maintenance ordeal: D-I-Y re-digging the drainfield and "stirring the solids"--a task we hired out for.
Weekend in Massachusetts - Summer, 2003. It's a weekend getaway to visit Lisa. We drive to the Boston area, catch Todd Alan Johnson in a plain awesome production of Sweeney Todd and tour historic places like a house where Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and Herman Melville visited.
Canada: Were You Expecting Something Different? - Summer, 2003. Back in Canada. I have prints from this somewhere, but I don't seem to have them scanned. I believe this was the first year I flew to Buffalo--something to do with summer school, I think--and then we drove back together with Addy in the red van. I think.
Idaho and Elsewhere - Spring, 2004. Claire is forced to live in inhuman conditions, namely, in Idaho. But we find tons of great parks to visit anyway.
Canada 2005 - Summer, 2005. After my summer tern research ends I hop a plane to Buffalo and spend a week in Canada. I just picked a few pictures, but this is the first long trip I took with my new digital camera.
Charlotte, North Carolina - Fall, 2005. Lisa and I visit Claire in her new house (!) in Charlotte and I try to see fall, which turns out to be not yet much in existence.
Las Vegas and San Diego - Winter, 2006. I visit Arlene in her new city, Las Vegas. I fail to gain insight into why it's so popular a destination because I don't understand slots, but we experience the Strip in a manner to our liking, and then we look at boats and whales and other critters in San Diego.
Alexandria, Washington D.C., and Maryland - Winter, 2006. I get a kick out of helping Lisa move, meet Scott, hang out, and see good ol' Les Mis, all in one weekend. Also it's really, really, really cold.
Alexandria and Lisa's Baby Shower - Fall, 2006. I'd missed Lisa's wedding that summer, and Claire had too, but we made it to the baby shower! We kibbitz with Lisa's and Scott's family and I finally see real, honest-to-goodness fall.
The Netherlands - Winter 2007. Okay, I don't have a page for this because frankly I have too darn many pictures and it would take forever to sort though, pick good ones, and write a choerent narrative of the wonderful time I had visiting Katie and John. We went all over the Netherlands (bye the bye, not all of the Netherlands is Holland, but all of Holland is the Netherlands, in case you were wondering) and we even took a mini-trip to Paris. Only thing is, next time I visit, I will beat Katie at Scrabble. :)
Other Photo Albums
Lot 39: The Shabomeka Chalet - A small collection of pictures of the cabin in Canada, the place I grew up visiting every summer.
Hurricane Wilma - Fall, 2005. Hurricane Wilma pays Naples a visit. Shock, horror, plant debris.
Halloween: A Pumpkin Scrapbook - When we were both at Stetson, Alexandra and I started a Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins and even, for a time, trick-or-treating. It's fabulous. We get to act like kids and play with pumpkin guts, and once we even knocked on Greg Gumbell's door. They were out of candy. Alas!
The View from Mt. Cowles - One of the first San Diego County recreational activities I did with my co-workers was to hike up Mt. Cowles, which overlooks the bay and a lot more besides. It's about 1,100 feet up and we chose to do it on a day when it was about 100 degrees, but the view was really good.
Humor
Bagnum P.I. - Lisa and Katie's creation. Brilliant.
What if Racehorses Were Poets? - I made this up in college, I think with Kaitlin, a Reporter co-worker, but I can't really remember what inspired it.
Know Your Barricades - Don't even ask. Classic GDI silliness, all about identifying traffic barricades. With labeled pictures.
Severus Snape Superstar - In August 2005 I had fun spending too much time online while dogsitting, and after visiting a Harry Potter message board where you could either argue about 1. Harry and Ginny's relationship, 2. horcruxes, or 3. Snape, I got the idea for this. If you haven't read Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince, don't look. It contains spoilers. Something random and fun that happened after I wrote this was that a fellow from a Harry Potter message board recorded himself singing some of the songs with backing tracks. Then they got played, I was told but cannot confirm, at a Harry Potter convention in, I believe, Las Vegas. I can't find the links to the audio files anymore because they seem to be dead, but I got quite a kick out of it at the time.
Harry Potter Songs - Some other Harry Potter send-ups I wrote.
