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From my notebook… Here I sit on a 7th-floor balcony overlooking the Pacific on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i. It’s Day 1 of our Honeymoon and already a wonderful, unforgettable trip. The sound of the ocean waves endlessly crashing on this tropical paradise — so loud and definite. The air so […]

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Jen and I are now married. Husband and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Gabe. It’s quite an overwhelmingly exciting feeling and one I’m not quite sure I’m ready to put in words just yet. But I wanted to write something. Yesterday was one of the best, happiest, and most nerve-racking days of my life. Everything was […]

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The wedding week has begun. The Big Day is this Saturday, which is hard to believe that the time has finally come. After more than a year of planning (too long), Jen and I are finally here in upstate New York. We’re at her parents’ place in Kinderhook now; we arrived here a couple days […]

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These are my new eyeglasses. I picked them up yesterday. They are cool. I really like them. They make better use of lens space than do my old glasses. They’re not as vertically skinny as the old Brooks Brothers, which is good because my downward lens coverage is improved (for reading, etc.). And they’re not […]

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Jen and I aren’t the only ones facing the reality of wedding debt. SFGate via NY Times: “The survey, from the Conde Nast Bridal Infobank, a research service for Conde Nast-owned wedding magazines, also found that the average wedding now costs $22,000, representing more than five months’ worth of wages for a middle-income family, according […]

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Gabe and Jen show off newly-acquired New York state marriage license outside the Kinderhook Town Hall on Thursday, July 3, 2003:

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Four weeks ago today Jen and I took our first group dance lesson at the Pick School of Ballroom Dance. We signed up for the beginners’ package: Four group lessons (waltz and rumba) and three private lessons. Tonight is the final group lesson; we’re skipping it because we’re just too run down and stressed out […]

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Who’s capable of going head-to-head against Arnold should the conservatives engineering the Davis recall get their way? AlterNet: “That progressive candidate is Arianna Huffington, the wealthy, brilliant writer and TV personality who has confounded progressive circles with her transformation over the past six years from the conservative wife of Republican Congressman Michael Huffington to influential […]

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This is it. The beginning of my final week at work before flying to New York to become a married man. It’s a trip. The wedding has been this destination on the horizon for so long — more than a year — that it seems unreal that’s it’s only 11 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, […]

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Boston.com / Valedictorian who sued is dropped from Harvard class: “A New Jersey student who sued successfully to be the sole valedictorian of her high school has been disinvited from attending Harvard University for plagiarism, according to a published report.” What comes around goes around. This part of the story is especially ridiculous: “She is […]

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