I have wanted to try paddle boarding for a while now, and got the chance this past weekend. If you are a regular reader, you already know that pretty much nothing athletic comes easily or naturally to me. But I try, usually with mixed results.
Yearly Archives: 2012
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I thought I would have a lot to say three weeks after my gall bladder removal. As it turns out, I don’t. I went to the doctor for my follow up appointment yesterday (he has been on vacation since my surgery) and the conversation went like this:
I recently posted about the fact that we rarely get invited to children’s birthday parties, and subsequently got an invitation that landed us right in the middle of things at Chuck E. Cheese. Well, this weekend we were at the mother of all birthday parties: The Bar Mitzvah.
When you make dinner plans with someone and you tell them “just pick wherever you want to go and let me know…” you can’t then decide you don’t want to go wherever they picked. So we found ourselves at Abbondanza. Since our last experience there was less than stellar, we […]
You may remember the saga of Monday and the broken down car. (If not, just click the link for the whole back story). I have spent way too much time dealing with getting this car fixed, but alas, today, it seems to be cured of it’s ailments.
I have a number of skills that serve me well in life, including problem solving. However, there are certain things I am just not good at. Cars, for example. I know how to drive and can even manage to add windshield washer fluid if I am desperate, but that is […]
You must know by now that I spend an inordinate amount of time on wine. Buying wine, drinking wine, finding the best small production wines, finding the best values, talking about wine, consulting when friends ask what wine to serve with dinner… You get it. It is all about the […]
As you can imagine, just 5 days post-op, nothing terribly exciting has been happening, so my normal eating adventures have been replaced by vomiting, which I will tell you is no fun. Especially after abdominal surgery.
I am sitting at my dining room table (since I really can’t handle the office just yet) recovering from a cholecystectomy on Friday. You may be wondering what exactly a cholecystectomy is… I was. It is fancy surgeon-speak for having your gallbladder removed. You will be happy to note that there are […]
The difference between “dinner” and a “wine dinner” is often the company. When the wine geeks are around, even in small numbers, a plain old dinner suddenly becomes an event. We often have wine with dinner, but we always have lots of wine with the wine geeks. On Wednesday we […]