A chronicle of your typical 30-ish suburban family.
Neil - Dad. Works for a big ol' company run by old white men with deep pockets.
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Sarah - Mom. Stays at home. Tries to keep kid and house clean and orderly. Succeeds admirably with both!
Ethan - First kid. Now 20 months old. Wonderful kid. The apple of our eyes! Baby #2 - Expected Time of Arrival: July 1st.

 
Horror of Horrors!!!
Sarah and I have been quite despondent these past few weeks. No no no.. nothing so serious like losing a job, having your house burned down, or stubbing your big toe.

Rather, it seems our local supermarket has discontinued Newman's Own Parmesiano Italiano salad dressing. While this may not seem like a big deal compared to, say, stubbing one's toe; it DOES prevent us from really enjoying our salads with a creamy dressing that has just the perfect twang of roasted garlic and peppercorns.

*sigh*

Interweb Famosity (I saw this line somewhere and can't remember where... lo muy siento!)
This past weekend, I was talking with Jon Mitchiner of Minotaur Technologies, LLC fame and he mentioned that he's been reading the blog as well. While we were talking about blogs, we both realized we enjoy the dullness of the dullest blog ever published.

Personally, I think the May 15th entry is the best:

Earlier on I heard something that I wanted to remember. I found a pen and wrote it down on a piece of paper. If I need to be reminded of the information at any point I will find the piece of paper and read it.

Almost zen-like in its execution, no? I believe I enjoy this blog because it proves that somewhere out there, someone leads a duller life than I do. Kind of like watching COPS. Check out the redneck getting busted by Sheriff Brown and getting his head slammed against the cruiser hood after saying, "the drugs y'all found in mah pawket ain't mine... I's carrying dem fo' my buddy Billy Jim Bob!"

All of a sudden, your problems seem quite trivial, right?

posted by Neil at 6/12/2003 09:50:00 PM

 
Ahh.. that was the name of the place!

Don't you hate it when you've eaten at a really great place and you forget the name of it? While we were in California, we ate at a superb (at least I thought so..) mexican place in Oakland but I couldn't remember the name of it. Thanks to our hosts, the restaurant's name is Dona Tomas. If you're ever in the area, simply go.

Blogs blogs and more blogs..

There are a few blogs I check on a regular (ok.. daily) basis. Here's my list. Please note that some of them may offend puritanical sensibilities.

Blackcore - My buddy Tim from college. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it reminds me of what life in DC was like.

A Girl Named Bob - I have NO idea how I found this site. It has this "Sex and the City" feel to it but the person who writes for the blog does it so darn well that it's my own version of reality TV.

AllTooFlat.com - This isn't strictly a blog site (humor-oriented?) but there are 4 "blogs" on the site that are also extremely well-written and also funny at times. They got a lot of attention a few months ago because they host a neat program called Elgoog. It's the popular Google search engine but they display it all backwards. Cool.

I have more but the URL's are at work. (shhhh...) Will post them later.


posted by Neil at 6/05/2003 09:34:00 PM