What's Up?

Good afternoon, well-behaved citizenry.

It's Sunday and I'm sitting on a blue couch writing to you. The dog is napping somewhere. The cat is napping somewhere. The wife... is napping somewhere. I'm in my headphones, listening to a band called Arthur & Yu. They're an Indie/Americana duo from Seattle and their sort-of new album, In Camera, is fantastic.

The cat and dog don't really deserve their naps as they haven't really accomplished anything today that would warrant needing a nap. Anastasia, however, ran a 5K this morning; the St. Patrick's Day Dash. So, I'm letting her rest up while I read and relax a bit myself.

Pretty soon I'll be heading to the kitchen. Our office is having a St. Pat's pot luck lunch tomorrow and I'm pulling out all the stops. I'll be making in Irish Quick Bread and a double-batch of Guiness Beef Stew. Mmm...

In the meantime, I think I'll get back to the book I'm reading: 1776 by Pulitzer Prize winning author, David McCullough. As I'm sure you can surmise from the title, it tells the story of the Revolutionary war from both the British and American perspectives. I'd picked it up while just killing time in a bookstore downtown and by the time I was a few pages in, I was hooked!

Why I Love Jon Stewart

Yeah, it's an old video (2004), but still relevant and still warms my heart.

Perfect Weekend Away from it All

Just had a fantastic weekend with our friends Ryan and Tiffany at and around Mt. Bachelor, Oregon!

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