Tonight’s the night. Jeff and I have tickets to see Stephen Lynch at the Birchmere. As I’ve noted before, it’s search engine requests on his name and for his lyrics (which do not exist on this site) that bring significantly more visitors to my blog than any other search term. Tonight is also Jeff’s and […]
Last October I began as a beta tester of The Sims Online and became very addicted to it for a time (I’ve posted about that and some of the other angst associated with my off-and-on online habits in a previous entry) and later to another online community, There. Even before Jeff and I started dating, […]
Toyota sent me another email about the new 2004 Prius yesterday, announcing the EPA-estimated fuel ratings: a pretty impressive 60 mpg city and 51 highway for a combined city/highway average of 55 mpg and the highest fuel economy of any mid-size car. The email also announced that the Prius will begin arriving at dealers on […]
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. — Stanley Horowitz Today, as Jeff also has noted, is the autumn equinox, also known in the pagan calendar as Mabon. Today is the day of equal light and darkness; from now until the winter solstice the […]
An article in today’s Washington Post notes that: While the United States fiercely debates the issue of allowing same-sex marriage, marriage for gay men and lesbians in the Netherlands has become so commonplace that today, two years after being legalized, it is hardly recognized as different…. [M]arriage registry records show that 7 percent to 8 […]
Here’s a picture of Jeff and me at Busch Gardens last month, as promised in my comment to his blog entry earlier today. My mom’s response after seeing this picture (and after already having been told about the 15-year age difference) was “Thom, I’ve always thought you look younger than your age. But standing next […]
OK, so maybe it’s a bit too trendy, but I have to confess that I quite like [sour] apple martinis. Jeff and I were having dinner at CPK the other night, and I ordered one and began critiquing it, comparing it to one I’d had at Fuzio several weeks earlier, and he suggested that I […]
Sunday morning I was sharing with Jeff a dream I’d had the previous night. I can only remember bits and pieces of it, but basically I had discovered a way to travel among parallel universes. I had reached an alternate Earth, and found myself captured and imprisoned in what seemed to be a cross between […]
Another update about the past weekend involves my own health. Friday evening Jeff and I went briefly to Pentagon City after eating, but I started feeling very tired. When we got home, I had developed an increasingly uncomfortable and distracting headache in addition to the fatigue. I decided to lie down for a nap, but […]
In my previous entry, I noted that my condo and I had been relatively unaffected by the hurricane. On Saturday afternoon, though, when Jeff and I went walking outside to get something to eat, we discovered that the front of the condo building hadn’t been so lucky; three trees on the front lawn had lost […]