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Category: Family

  • Piper meets Santa

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    Reagan and I were so happy that Piper was able to stick around Blythedale for the holidays. Today, she sat on Santa’s lap and he gave her a present. It seemed like she was really pretty interested in the whole event, too. Regan and I arrived kind of early, to get Piper into her Christmas…

  • Christmas Miracle

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    Today was the day that we were scheduled to be moving Piper to NJ. Yesterday morning I received all of the discharge paperwork via fax. I signed all of it and faxed it back over. I was starting to get mentally geared up for the event. Yesterday afternoon, I got a call from Piper’s social…

  • Some random crap

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    Reagan cut my hair last night. It is a lot shorter that I have had it in a while, but I really like it. Piper had her haircut today, too, since Reagan still had her scissors with her. It was winter haircuts all around. Woo Hoo. On a totally unrelated note. I was looking at…

  • Piper playing and clapping

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    Here is some of the video that we got, yesterday. Watch Piper clapping at the end.

  • Busy Weekend

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    Reagan and I have been working all year long to gain guaranteed entry to next year’s New York City Marathon. We have been doing the NYRR 9+1 program. We have had all of our races (plus a few extra) finished for quite some time now. But when we got online to sign up to volunteer,…

  • Deep Breath

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    We found out this morning that Piper will be going back to NJ on Tuesday. We knew that she was next on the list, for a couple of weeks now. But I was secretly hoping that she wouldn’t go back until after the holidays, and everything. She has been at Blythedale for a long time…

  • Party at the Roc

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    We have already had a pretty busy week, this week. I worked late yesterday, but still managed to fit in a winter line launch party for Flud Watches. Then Tuesday night, Reagan and I attended a (work related) holiday party at Rockefeller Center. It was at one of the restaurants that is adjacent to the…

  • Remember Pearl Harbor

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    I know that I have posted this photo before. But I really like, it. Plus it is the only digital photo that I have, of my grandfather, during WWII (lower left). I didn’t write anything, this year for Memorial Day. So I thought that I would take a second and say something on Pearl Harbor…

  • Work Free-Fridays for the Month of December

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    I had some surplus vacation time to use up before the end of the year. As a part of it, I’m taking a vacation at the end of every week this month (for those weeks that don’t already end in holidays), starting last Friday. It was really fun to be able to go up and…

  • 2009 in retrospect

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    I know it is only the first week of December. But it is already that time of year, where everyone starts publishing the “best of” lists etc.. So, the other night I sat down and put together a less-than-comprehensive little photo book of our 2009 activities. There are 118 images all together. Depending on which…