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Weekend London Adventures

I had a pretty full day today. My Saturdays have become sorta routine in that I’ll spend the morning out shopping for stuff I need for the flat, then spending the afternoon exploring London. I went to IKEA on both of the last two Saturdays so it was nice not to have to go to [...]

Posted 05 July 2008 † Peter § ‡ Comments (1) °

I don’t get Obamamania

I don’t understand why so many people are enthralled by Obamamania. Here is a guy who has very little political experience, accomplished very little in the political realm, and is somehow “the most exciting” political candidate America has seen in decades.
I think people like the idea or concept of Obama. People love the idea [...]

Posted 29 June 2008 † Peter § ‡ Comments (3) °

Last weekend

We didn’t go anywhere for memorial day weekend but it was still a nice, relaxing weekend. A ton of people were out in Central Park Sunday afternoon. I love Central Park. I was telling the wife that there isn’t anything like this in Boston (the Boston Commons is no Central Park). A friend from church [...]

Posted 01 June 2008 † Peter § ‡ Comments (1) °

Blogging less

A lot of you may have noticed that I’ve been blogging less lately. Some of that is due to me being pretty busy at work but on the other hand, much of the reason why I’ve blogged in the past is to say what I’ve been up to. Facebook has sorta replaced blogging for that [...]

Posted 01 June 2008 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Rising gas prices are irrelevant

The best part of living car-free in New York City is that rising gas prices are largely irrelevant. Okay, I’m intelligent enough to know that even if I don’t own a car and don’t have to fill my gas tank every week, rising gas prices do affect the cost of everything I buy. However, the [...]

Posted 27 May 2008 † Peter § ‡ Comments (1) °