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It’s been a busy few days of partying to celebrate everything from the Irish in all of us to birthdays to just being alive. Thursday was, of course, St. Patty’s Day, so Justin and I got the celebrations started early with lunch at the Parting Glass. It was totally packed — standing room only, band […]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Grab a Guinness and celebrate life, your friends, your family, your fortune, your health. Here’s to the Irish in all of us this 17th day of March. My great grandfather Jack O’Flaherty was born in County Sligo, Ireland and emigrated to San Francisco where he met my great grandmother, Nora Patricia […]

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Last night Niki and Seth invited us to attend an auction fundraiser for the Universal Preservation Hall, a non-religious, non-profit project “to save the Universal Baptist Church building at 25 Washington Street and transform it into a significant and high quality meeting, event and performance venue.” The church in question, despite being so dilapidated, is […]

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It’s an absolute outrage that a mere $1.2 billion is threatened to be cut from the federal budget that would essentially mean the end of Amtrak. This country was founded on the backbone of the railroad and there’s no reason why that relatively small subsidy shouldn’t continue to support the nation’s railroad system. We need […]

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“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It is not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.” – Margaret Thatcher Friday night we hit the Wine Bar followed by the Tin & Lint. Saturday morning while bending over […]

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It seems that my blog was mentioned in a story in today’s Saratogian. I had no idea, but this shows what a small town this is. The Saratogian / Local bloggers make for good reads: Locally, Saratogians can travel right alongside the globe-trekking Masies on their blog (www.elliottmasie.com), check in on the doings of their […]

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After a hard night’s work of refinancing our mortgage (we got a much better rate that will take a number of years off our loan), then catching up on TV shows such as Lost, The OC (ended with the new Star Wars III trailer), and Blind Justice (the new show with the most implausible of […]

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If you use Gmail and Windows, do I have a treat for you: The Gmail Drive shell extension. Quite simply, it maps your Gmail account to your file system so that you can drag ‘n drop files for backup directly into your Gmail account. How kick-ass is that? The primary limitation is not one of […]

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Winter continues to reign here in Saratoga Springs, where we got nearly half a foot of snow yesterday. It looks and feels like January all over again, shining sun aside. After coming in from walking the dogs this morning, the 9 degree air temperature, with a Feels Like of -5°, made my fingers numb through […]

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As has become tradition on this day each year, my site is pink in honor of Nana, the amazing woman who left this earth three years ago today and who touched so many lives. She continues to be a significant part of who I am today and inspires me always. The last Thanksgiving we spent […]

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