Archive for January 5th, 2010

It’s not what it seems

It’s not what it seems

Every day I take a group of four-year-olds to their school buses. As I walked in their room today, I noticed their school shoes all lined up so neatly by the wall. Their teacher told me they just love to do that. I’m betting they do not do it at home.
BTW, the picture looked better [...]

A Cup of Calm

A Cup of Calm

I personally find coffee to be a necessary part of my day, waking me up just in time for work. Warm, strong, a little bitter, with plenty of frothy milk or soy, my latte soothes the savage beast.

Porch Envy aka Claire Torture

Porch Envy aka Claire Torture

As a I walked to down to the new cheese shop* on Main Street in Medford to grab a little cheese to go with my lunch of leftovers I noticed one of my favorite houses on Union Street. What I really noticed today was the lovely porch that stretched around the three visible sides as I walked along across the street. I know Claire is jealous of porches, so this should make her melt. These people have more usable living space on their porch in fair weather than I had in my first two apartments – combined.

An unfortunate delay

An unfortunate delay

I have a very long commute, and most of my jobs have always somehow involved driving. Whenever I get into bad traffic I always try to calm myself by being grateful for not being the person that is causing the traffic. I have been in a couple of accidents myself, and seeing things [...]

Birthday Lunch

Birthday Lunch

My kid sister now has a job and came up to Philly to celebrate my birthday.  She took me out to lunch so we walked down to Marra’s Restaurant.  It’s one of those joints that have been around for 4 generations or so.   I love their pizza.
We got the Pizza Piscatore.  Clams, Mussels, Shrimp, Tomatoes, [...]

Frapto 66 –  Bloody Snow

Frapto 66 – Bloody Snow

Two weeks ago, in the UK, we were slightly teased with the snow, it was basically gone in a day, as seen here on Frapto 52 and in this wee video on flickr here.
Last night the snow came down hard and it stuck! Bloody tons of the stuff,  well for me anyway. I cant remember [...]

Morning detail

Morning detail

After many failed attempts in the past, I’ve now finally gotten into a routine of taking a small selection of vitamins and supplements every day. Without going into TMI (you’re welcome), the supplements are as follows: flax oil, Omega-3, B-12 vitamins, acidophilus and St. John’s Wort, plus two aspirin, as I work in front of a computer in terrible lighting most of the day.

Appropriate Road Signs

Appropriate Road Signs

Purely an accident.