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Entries from December 2005

Are Ninjas Still Hip?

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 · 1 Comment

In the 1980s, ninjas were all the rage. I was a big-time ninja fan. Some of my favorite movies included classics like Revenge of the Ninja (all-time best ninja movie), American Ninja (I through V), Enter The Ninja, and, of course, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — with movies, cartoons, action figures, and video games, definitely […]

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Tags: movies

Sketchy Things

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 · Comments Off on Sketchy Things

Sketchy things rarely happen in this small town, so when they do, it’s big news. Back in October, some dumbass from Connecticut tried to kidnap a member of the girls’ cross-country team (not just any cross-country team, mind you, but a team that’s best in the state and who took #2 in the country; the […]

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Tags: saratoga springs

Birthday Wine Tasting

Monday, December 12th, 2005 · 5 Comments

Friends gathered Saturday night with two bottles each of Pinot Noir in hand for the first-ever A_nderson wine tasting party to celebrate Jen’s big 30th birthday. After tons of planning and two straight days of clean-up and preparation, the evening went off without a hitch. Fourteen types of Pinot flowed in the blind tasting, and […]

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Happy Birthday, Jen!

Friday, December 9th, 2005 · 2 Comments

On this day 30 years ago, a star was born — Jennifer A_nderson. And I’m lucky enough to be her husband. For those of us fortunate enough to have Jen in our lives, we’re better off for it. Jen brings so much joy and good energy to everyone who knows her. Her laugh, her smile, […]

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Tags: anecdotes

Time Flies

Thursday, December 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on Time Flies

Two years ago today I wrote about the going away party that sent us off from San Francisco to Saratoga Springs. I like what I wrote. We didn’t say any goodbyes. And in the five times I’ve been back to San Francisco in the past two years, it feels like I never left — aside […]

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Tags: anecdotes

Physical Brain Farts

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005 · 1 Comment

We all have the occasional brain fart — the moment when you’re trying to think of something and you just can’t find it. That little something that you should really know, but it’s just slipping your mind… it’s right there… on the tip of your tongue… but you just can’t bring words to it. So […]

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Tags: anecdotes

London 2005

Sunday, December 4th, 2005 · 2 Comments

If there’s any country that should be on every American’s list of countries to visit, it is England. It’s mind-boggling how much of the world’s history is in England (thanks to that funny little thing known as the British Empire) — from the Rosetta Stone to the Magna Carta to the oldest existing copies of […]

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Tags: travel