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A wedding in Texas

I’m sitting here in a hotel room relaxin in Houston and wondering if that crazy hurricane heading toward Houston is gonna mess with my flights home tomorrow… Kevin and I spent the weekend in Houston staying at the Houstonian for my cousin Carrie’s wedding.. The wedding was SO nice and we had a great time hanging out with my family.. Friday night we showed up in time for the rehearsal dinner which was really nice and a lot of fun. Met the groom in person for the first time and had great food.. After that Kevin, My sister Katie, her boyfriend Nick, and my cousin Paul all went out for drinks.. Next day we spent the day hanging out, going to the gym, swimming, and chilling… That evening was the wedding… SO NICE… Outside in Houston ( which was a little warm! 😉 ) followed by a nice meal at the Houstonian.. my kind of wedding..

Anyway … Pictures are here.. just wanted to share… Happy sunday…

Six Feet and a Walk

This weekend was pretty low key… Out for beers friday night followed by kevin and I curling up on the couch catching up on 2 weeks of Six Feet Under episodes that we’d missed (so we were caught up for the final episode)… Saturday was pretty uneventful. Worked some.. Dinner with Matt, Brian, Audrey, and Kyle who was up from San Diego..

Sunday was really nice. We spent the morning shopping for Kevin’s trip to Burning Man. He needed to buy supplies for the trip including a bicycle, tent spikes, a bike horn, and a water bottle – among other things… After that we met up with Jason and headed over to Rick and Randy’s for the 6th in a series of photo Walks that they host.. We’ve done these before and they’ve been a really cool event and this one was no different.. And this one was also handy cuz it was in the neighborhood. We walked from their house up past Kite Hill, Liberty Hill, down through Dolores park, over to Mission Dolores, and Back.. It was a lot of fun and I got a lot of good pictures (which I’ve posted here)…

After all that we went out for a drink at the Metro with Louis and Jason after which Kevin and I came back home and watched the final Episode of Six Feet Under… OH… MY… GOD… It was SO WELL done… If you haven’t seen it see it… you kind of have to have been following the show but if you have been I think you’ll LOVE it… it was SO GOOD..

oh.. and it looks like they have posted obituaries for the characters on HBOs site… So good.. (Thanks to MJ for the pointer)

now back to reality.. work time… happy monday

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Bear with me

Hey Folks… Please bear with me… As I said earlier – my blog was attacked this morning / last night by a hacker that did a pretty phenominal job of hosing it… After multiple attempts to re-construct it in place only to have it re-tagged I decided to do a fresh re-install and reload of MT. Its a painful process and i’m left with a format that, right now, is pretty bland and lame however the result should be a much cleaner blog.. I think I may use this opportunity to tidy up what I’ve got here and see if I can come up with a cleaner layout… The good thing is I have backups of the content on the blog so even though a lot of the structure is gone, the content is still there..

So please be patient – it’ll take me some time to get myself back to a layout I like…

*sigh*

Congrats to Jay and Craig

Quick congratulations on the birth of Avery Grant-Zodikoff – the daughter of our friends Jay and Craig… MAN – I have more friends with babies these days than I can even count.. I swear my mom is gonna SMACK me if I don’t join in on the fun..

Congrats guys… She is SO CUTE! 🙂

My FAVORITE Birthday Girl

My favorite little girl in the whole wide world turned 1 year old this weekend… Matt and Brian had a birthday party for Audrey today and I got to go… They cooked an AMAZING spread and a whole bunch of folks showed up to celebrate… My mom even came out to join us along with her brand new little yellow lab puppy.. Pictures are here… :):)

Intelligent Spaghetti Monster

I love it when the two biggest Jack Asses in the free world start disagreeing… It brings a smile to my face… I just read this this morning:

Leading Republican differs with Bush on evolution

By Jon Hurdle

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A leading Republican senator allied with the religious right differed on Thursday with President Bush’s support for teaching an alternative to the theory of evolution known as “intelligent design.”

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Granted it does scare me more than a little when I find myself partially agreeing with Rick Santorum. But still makes me giggle. I have my own opinions on evolution versus other ‘options’ however I think the theory my buddy Andrew passed along to me is currently my favorite:

OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD

I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves the theory that makes the most sense to them. I am concerned, however, that students will only hear one theory of Intelligent Design.

Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.

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Draw your own conclusions… :):)

Happy Friday