I'm grateful to my sister for allowing us to stay with her family at their timeshare in Newport, RI, but at the same time, I'm getting resentful of my nieces for limiting our sight-seeing options. This was our 2nd day in here and at least we finally had a chance to do part of the Cliff Walk (no mansions). The older niece is sulky as hell (and bossy ( Read more... )

Well, I know what I'll be talking about with my clients when I finally start...

P.S. All safe here.

Next time I buy a fruit tea (well, technically, a tisane), I'm going to have to manually remove the hibiscus flower bits. I hate hibiscus. It really overwhelms all other flavors. If I wanted hibiscus tea, I'd buy hibiscus tea. Cheap filler ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went to Abigail's Tea Room, adjacent to the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum (haven't been to the ships/museum yet). We didn't know what to expect. It turned out that the tea room only offered 2 tea flavors: one black tea supposedly similar to what was tossed into the harbor in 1773 and a strawberry-apple tea replacement reminiscent ( Read more... )

Is this a real statement made by the (a?) founder (or something) of the Anthropologie chain ( Read more... )

This always amused me (well, ever since Verizon came into existence)--though I admit to being easily amused.

When I came to the U.S., our phone service service was provided by NYNEX, which I think "stood for" New York-New England X? (and there had been a New England Telephone at some point in the past although I'm not sure if it was engulfed by ( Read more... )

Adam and I were able to get two tickets for a matinee of Thorton Wilder's Our Town yesterday. At the under 35 for $25 price no less! It was awesome. And in the front row ( Read more... )

On Sunday, Adam and I went to see Cirque du Soleil's Totem show at Marine Industrial Park in South Boston. I've never seen Cirque du Soleil before, and the last circus of any sort I've been to was in Brooklyn 11 years ago ( Read more... )

Some pros and cons of marriage per Charles Darwin:

http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwins-notes-on-marriage

Turns out I'm only allergic to grass pollens. Which means that my perennial post-nasal drip (which has recently been renamed upper airway cough syndrome) is non-allergic in nature. I'm slightly annoyed because if it was an immune reaction, something could be done about it (not that I wish for an actual anaphylactic or anaphylactoid reaction). So ( Read more... )