All Done, empty house

Outside the Mother Ship

Outback for Dinner

last Day On the Beac

Red-eye tonight from Honolulu to Newark, then home....

Golf at the Challenge at Manele

We lost a lot of balls on the front, but pulled it out on the back.

Hulapo'e Bay Beach

I'm down at the beach, Cathy's having a massage in on of the gardens.

Anniversary Trip to Hawaii

This is the view from our room at the Manele Bay Hotel. We're here for our 15th anniversay. Kids staying in NJ with Nick and Penny. woke up at 4am thqanks to the time change, but getting a full day in before lunch is a nice change.

Skyline Drive

Road Trip!

At Applebee's in Lexington, VA. A nice day's drive, but the view going over the Blue Ridge on the NC/VA border was ruined by a deluge (which Charlotte could use incidentally).

Testing Video

I'm testing to see whether this videoclip can be posted.

View of the Beach at BHI

Before the replenishment the waterline at high tide was almost to the dune line to the right.

D's Birthday at Bald Head

N buried on the newly replenished beach at Bald Head. They must have added 75 to 100 yards of beach. Most importantly it's really nice sand. Makes coming out to this beach actually pretty nice. Thanks Taxpayers.

Miramar Marine Air Station

Arrived in San Diego

View from our hotel room.

Found Fossil?

AK found this on the beach this morning. Anyone know what it is?

Beach Replenishment

A large pipe (about 3' diameter) carries sand in a slurry that is deposited on the beach. adding about 60 to 80 yards of beach. Thanks Corps of Engineers!

At Bald Head Island

Spent a cold weekend at Bald Head Island. Not as cold as my mom and dad, who aborted a trip to DC because of ice... Headed back to Charlotte this evening.

biking

Apple Introduces Quad Core Processors

Apple today began offering Quad Core Processors. With a dual chip configuration that 8 processors worth of computational goodness. Mine was ordered just minutes after they went up for sale. MacPro Xeon Workstations

Baseball Practice

Hoyas Had a Great Season

It's taken me a couple of days to write this because I wanted to get it right. It was no fun for the Hoyas to lose to Ohio State the other day, but it is impossible to be disappointed with the season.

When GU hired Coach Thompson three years ago, I got "HOYA" plates for my truck, thinking the good times would return. Little did I know it would mean a Big East Season Title, Big East Tournament Championship and a Final Four appearance in such a short time. Driving around Tar Heel country last week with "HOYA" plates was great!

Congratulations to JT III and the team on an awesome year. Thanks for the memories. Here's to winning it all in 2008!!!!

Hoya Saxa, Baby!

Movie Review: Blades of Glory

One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. This movie could easily have been a complete train-wreck, but Farrell and Heder pulled it off brilliantly, with a great script making it all possible. **** out of 5.

Last Post from Austin

Leaving Austin now.

What's Your Permanent Age?

Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) ask a lot of though-provoking and just plain old provoking questions on his blog. In an recent installment has askes what is your "permanent age" What's your "permanent age"?

Chorizo for Breakfast

Sunday Brunch

at Ciscos. Last day. Hoyas lost. :-(

The Bottle Rockets

the chieftans

dd

first beer in austin

In Austin with b-school friends for the Final Four. Go Hoyas!

Movie Review: Shooter

Just saw Shooter. Great action, decent plot, some goofy dialogue. 3 out of 5 stars.

Long Trip Home

Back in our favorite airport...Philly! No delays so far' but I'm not holding my breath.

Tired Trooper

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Here we are on our last night in front of Nos Ancestres Les Gaulois. Now universally acclaimed by young and old alike as the greatest restaurant in the world! Bonsoir.

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can you guess where we are?

Shoe Shopping

It's raining, so walking aound is not much fun... Just left L'Eglise St. Sulpice (Da Vinci Code). They have lots of signs debunking a lot of Dan Brown's liberties with sertain facts about the church and the gnomen in particular.

Restaurant Chez Clement...

L'Opera

Now standing in line to go into L'Opera.

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Went to a fabulous dinner with our friends from Charlotte last night at a place called Chez L'Ami de Louis. Great wine food and company.

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Tour Eiffel

Tux

This is what Nick wants to wear for Uncle ra's wedding

Sun Finally

leaving the palace of the Sun King, we get sun...

Venus de Milo

Treasure Hunt at the Louvre

cafe break

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leaving Musee D'Orsay. Shopping and La Conciergerie to come today.

Me Finally

first one with me in it. Pretty nice restaurant for a museum. We're 1/3 of the way through Musee D'Orsay.

First stop today, Musee d'Orsey

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place pompidou

our view

Vacation Blogging Paris

We are now 0 for 2 on international trips from the Philadelphia airport on US Airways. It's unbelievable. Delays, almost missing the flights and... Nothing like arriving after an overnight transatlantic flight to missing luggage. That's right, apparently US Airways left our luggage behind in Philly.

Now I'm off to get a couple of coats (weather raining and 40's) to get us through tomorrow.

Hopefully, I'll figure out how to post pictures and get a couple up here very soon.