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Nearly a month away and the shopping buzz is already beginning — Black Friday.info has all the dot info you need for your day-after-Thanksgiving shopping needs.

I meant to say this in yesterday’s post — so before we arrived to Nat’l Airport on Friday to leave town, C had already checked all of us in online [...]

This weekend was the final wedding of the year.. wedding 6 of 6 (I forgot the Florida one in the spring, bringing that total up from 5)– C’s cousin Curt married a very nice girl named Sarah at a mid-day ceremony in Lexington.
Before they left for the honeymoon, their friends took some [...]

Tonight C, Tim H. and I fly down to Lexington, Kentucky to meet up with Papa H. for wedding 5 of 5 for the year. C and Tim’s cousin “Curt” is the lucky lad getting hitched. Pics to come.

Let me take a moment to praise C.
Last night, standing in front of the refrigerator like a [...]

Interesting article about the nerds souping up their rides.

Cingular rolled out the innovative TeleNav service — which is surprising to hear ‘innovative’ and ‘Cingular’ in the same sentence. It’s basically GPS for your phone (currently only available for a handful of models) but is the beginning of the ‘GPS on a cell phone’ revolution’. Soon [...]

Rrring rrring rrring rrring rrring banaphone.
Zing zong zing zong zing zong zing banana phooooone…cellular modular, interactive-odular
I’ve been singing the banaaphone song since yesterday. C brought back a ton of bananas from Thursday’s “Spin Ride” in DC.
When life hands you bananas, you make banana-ade banana bread. We made three (3) LOAVES.. two of which are a [...]

Yogi returned to Arlington, Virginia this weekend to kick it… and do what he does best: keep it real.
You may remember Yogi the Pug’s first appearance at Clarendon Day… Yogi is the Pug who had a stroke and can no longer retract his tongue.
He brought along a friend this time and fellow [...]

The Campus Reader is a brand new college news aggregator, collecting news from the websites of over 300 college newspapers…where you can read such inciteful stories like: “Kiss & Tell: Farty relationships and too much sex” from The Dakota Student at The University of North Dakota and “Bear Bites Washington Quarterback Stanback; Out For Season”
from [...]

GOB’s Segway is for sale! And right now you can snag it for just over $3,000! What a bargain!
Also on sale at eBay is Stephen Colbert’s portrait of himself that hangs above his fireplace. The portrait is of him standing by his portrait by the fireplace. Excellent.

Highly addictive game — I clocked in only 5.609 [...]

Houston PD goes wild — an officer responds to a noise complaint and ends up tasering a 14 year old boy with his parents in the crowd. Local news reports from Houston suggest the officer was attacked by band members or the crowd — all of which are completely false.. check out blogs and video [...]

Yesterday, Ally F., Andrea D., C and other FoA (Friends of Ally) traversed westward towards the mighty apple orchard of Stribling in Markham, VA…about 50 miles west of DC.
The afternoon included but was not limited to, apple pickin’, cider drinkin’, fire sittin’, pumpkin bread eatin’, chicken watchin’, and dirty dog rubbin’.
A bag [...]