I must sample them all!

If this is based off the anime Blood+ that I got into watching a year or so back, when I couldn't sleep at night and it was the only thing on, this'll be kick-ass!

I've been meaning to check this out for a few years now but never found the chance. Hopefully this year I can change that.

WTF!@

Some interesting background links on his site.

That's crazy!!!!!!!!

Next booktalk?

I DON'T KNOW ANY BLIND DENTISTS! Do you!?

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Micheal Jackson(!).

Pretty amazing when you really think about it.

ResortMaps.com

Blimpies.

Blimpies.

Blimpies.

Trip was spectacular tho! So much done I can't begin to recount it all. Just off the top of my head though - travelling the length of Long Island NY through the various vineyards, dining at Claudio's, checking out an Aquarium that I read about in a UK magazine which I found to be pretty awesome, visiting family and freinds in northern NJ for a couple days, travelling through the pines down through Whiting (where I was annoyed by the "birdlady" - but was able to snap a picture that will hopefully be published in the next issue of Weird NJ!), being super surprised at staying at a spectacular bed and breakfast in an historic freakin' mansion down in Cape May NJ - beautiful place, it's the furthest point south in NJ, on a peninsula, and beaching out down there. Visiting the Cape May beaches, lighthouse, sunset beach, and a real shipwreck! Checking out the heated pool room building out back and learning that LD is an excellent swimmer (also 2 out of the 4 places we stayed we had inroom hottubs - yowsa, ohyeah). Taking a ferry across the Delaware Bay into Delaware and visiting Rehoboth and Bethany Beaches, and coming back because Delaware is Delaware - not a whole bunch to be interested with there, although we did get to see the Great Chief Little Owl and shots of me in front of Crabby Dicks. Dining at various restaurants along the shores and meeting Jimbob at Cabana's. Hitting Philadelphia PA and seeing the Liberty Bell, City Hall, all the historic stuff while LD was doing her conference thing, Both of us doing the Rocky Balboa thing (video of me running up the stairs to be posted to Youtube in a few days for your viewing pleasure), quiet evenings, getting real hoagies at Geno's where all the celebs have been - (of course I got mine with Cheese Whiz - apparently a Philly thing), photos by the Love Statue. On the way back, spending a night at an Inn overlooking the Mystic Harbor in Mystic CT.

That's kinda just the tip of all that we did in an amazingly short amount of time. I have over 350 pictures and videos, some of the better ones to uploaded a couple a day probably for a week or two! HAH!

Ferry in CT to NY! Whoop!

I am very excited for this trip!

Lemonhead candy.

Damn, I better start packing...

Sweet!

Good weekend - lots of relaxing about, eating in the 'burbs and the North End, and doing some golfing. (and inadvertantly, some fish watching). Also trying to get caught up on some reading and gardening.

Saw Star Trek finally this eve at the ol' Somerville Theatre. Not bad. The movie that is - the seats kinda mess up your back.

..Great...

On a brighter note... these plastic forks with the leftovers from the catered lunch that another group had a meeting for earlier in the day are silver and look like they're made out of metal! Pretty cool! I'm snagging them up!

Notes

Again, this actually very good and I'm enjoying the book. Good stuff.

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So this weekend's weather is supposed to be better than the foggy misty rainy look we've been having for the last couple of days so I'll be looking to hang out at the Hatchshell to catch some of Earthfest, where they appear to have some good acts this time around, and possibly the Hotdog Safari on Sunday at the horse racetrack, but am unsure if I'll actually do it - I mean, how many hotdogs can I actually eat?

Get ready!

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Earlier LD had seen someone at the park having a Del's Lemonade which apparently is a Rhode Island thing and she decided we must have some of that "frozen deliciousness". I don't know how, but after just randomingly driving and slowly heading up back north and ignoring the ass directions that the OnStar thing gives you, she actually found a place by chance in Pawtucket that dealt in the frozen deliciousness, and now I can say that I have had the honor of eating one. And I owe it all to LD's determination! Score!

In the evening we ended up watching Rocky because LD had never seen it (go figure) and because I need to get prepared for my Philly trip and one of my goals is to re-enact the scene where he runs up the steps of the museum, because I like to do nutty stuff like that! (Although actually finding the gray sweatsuit that he wears may be a bit problematic - might have to forgo that authenticity). Plus it's a pretty good movie. I've made a list of movies LD must see and that was one on my list. (Admittedly, in hindsight/rewatching, putting down Blue Velvet and Boondock Saints was probably a bit of bad judgement on my part).

This afternoon, Memorial Day, was spent having a BBQ with LD and just a couple of close friends. It was really nice and a beautiful way to spent a lazily quiet afternoon, and having fun conversations. Here's a pic of me preparing and slicing strawberries for the dessert pie. It was fun grilling burgers and corn and helping out.

Saw this online this evening after I got back: Make way for the turkey and her babies just outside Davis Square on one of the residential side streets. Awesome shot!

Today's Image of the day!

WTF?

Can you imagine that if this bill will to somehow actually pass that I would no longer be able to keep tropical fish! $%#^@!!

Bill data.

I didn't realize it was so old, I'd seen it performed before with the solo project.