We're back from Aruba. Definitely had a wonderful honeymoon. The weather was beautiful and the beaches were gorgeous. Most of our time was spent relaxing in the sun or the water, but we took some time for an offroad tour of the island on ATVs, and for some horseback riding on the beach. All inclusive was definitely the way to go, as it was ( Read more... )

Kate and I are officially homeowners. As exciting as that is, it also means that we're up to our eyeballs in debt now. Of course everyone keeps saying how it's a good kind of debt, and how the tax benefits are great. That may all very well be true, but it doesn't eliminate the fact that we will be spending several hundreds of thousands of ( Read more... )

Kate and I are off and running on our home buying odyssey.  Over the past few weeks we've met with a Realtor, looked at almost 26 different houses, and placed a bid on what will hopefully be our new (and first) home.  It's a really nice townhome (over 2,000 square feet) over in the Greenway Farms development in Leesburg.  Three levels, all finished ( Read more... )

This was actually a post I made in reply to a friend's journal entry, but after re-reading it, I felt that it was worth placing in my own journal ( Read more... )

I so want this...

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/the-biggest-lego-set-ever-made-does-point-five-past-lightspeed-235925.php

- T

It's been a while since I've felt like sharing anything here, but this is just too exciting not to pass around.  HBO has optioned the rights to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, with the idea being that each book will be one season.

Check out the full article here.

Just the thought of this makes me as giddy as a schoolgirl.

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More later. But in the meantime...


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And to think... we missed being in London for this by just a few days.  The site is only a few blocks from where we were staying, though I doubt they'd have let the public in to see.  Still, very cool stuff.

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So as I mentioned earlier, Kate and I had a pretty good time overall in London, with just a few unfortunate events popping up ( Read more... )