December 2008
22 posts
On the PA Turnpike. Ready to be off the road.
Dec 30th
Whirlwind tour of the High Water Mark at Gettysburg. Would’ve been nice to spend more time, but it was a detour.
Dec 29th
Getting some real food after snacking instead of eating lunch made me sick. Junk food may taste good, but it don’t feel good.
Dec 29th
Persian lunch in old city, Philly. Turkish coffee on its way. Could’ve had hookah if we were smokers.
Dec 28th
At Christchurch; Can smell the coffee one block away. Could it kill my onion breath?
Dec 28th
Licking the seeds and sweet grit out of my teeth.
Dec 28th
Grits, pancakes with chocolate chips, & good coffee.
Dec 28th
Descended from the cold of Connecticut through the fog of New York and New Jersey into the ‘burbs of Philly. Will be in 60’s tomorrow.
Dec 28th
Leaving for Philly, but not before the Last Breakfast — whatever it is, it’ll be tasty!
Dec 27th
The eating has been good… best home cooking of anyplace I’ve been. Great beer, too!
Dec 27th
SOMEbody ate all the cookies!
Dec 26th
Pusser’s Rum, Dogfish Ale 120, cheese & salami platter… Yorkshire pudding in the works
Dec 26th
Dishes… dishes… mounds of dishes… what a wonderful scullery maid I’d have made…
Dec 26th
Confusing my system with a full tumbler of rum, followed by a muddy river of coffee.
Dec 25th
Writing… god, how I love it!
Dec 25th
Lots of childhood pix of ianmclaury and his friends, like Allen before he was taller than everyone, and Shannon et. al. playing video games.
Dec 25th
Congratulations! I expect pix of the lucky recipient are imminent.
Dec 25th
Drinking German beer and putting up the “7 ft Noble Fir”, with the smoky smell of burning hardwood in our nostrils.
Dec 24th
My toast to 2008: http://dandelife.com/story/55477
Dec 24th
My story of getting lost in New Jersey on our way from Pittsburgh to Connecticut: http://dandelife.com/peahayes/blog
Dec 24th
Reflecting on the good things about 2008. I have much for which to be thankful.
Dec 23rd
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An unpleasant surprise
After watching the surreal “Being There”, with Peter Sellers as a child-like man who the world comes to perceive as a financial genius, I wandered across the street to the flagship store of Borders Books and Music.  Borders began in Ann Arbor.  When I arrived in 1988, it was a thriving intellectual hangout.  There were floor to ceiling books, with shelves and people packed close together. Then...
Dec 9th