january 3, 2006

    happy, happy new year
    to one and all.
    celebrated christmas
    early in rock
    with quite a surprise
    and the felling of
    a tree in the wild.
    continued celebrating
    for a week or so
    with friends, family
    in maryland.

    gallery archive grandma

just what I wanted
 
2005: the best of times
1/3 geocaching w/john, nicholas, thomas 1/6 started crackthewindow.com 1/7 above the fold A1 1/22 drove ashish to work in jeep 1/26 caching w/carpenters, photos w/pop, scrabble w/grandma, visitin w/aunt olivia 1/30 sledding on black path 2/8 skiing at wisp 2/15 valentine's day trip to snowshoe 3/2 super date of bowling and BBQ 3/11 new ski jacket 3/24 googlewhacked whippoorwills filmstrip 4/10 cherry blossom tourists 4/16 first ferns found 4/19 leah visits DC 4/26 holocaust museum 4/27 made first love accordion 4/28 lost near walter reed w/james, daisy 5/5 black bean & jicama salad 5/6 new bike seat 5/11 to oak point w/mom, daisy, thelma, nesslee 5/12 catoctin mountain camping 6/1 geocaching afterschool w/thomas, saw chuck palahniuk 6/12 glowing moonflowers 6/14 bob dylan/willie nelson 6/26 rode to zoo w/james, rita 6/28 climbing at carderock w/all the kids 7/13 rafting trip w/james, nicholas, thomas 7/26 canoeing monocacy w/james, ginny, joe 8/1 daytrip to ocean city w/james 8/8 new climbing shoes 8/9 to rehoboth w/james, kids 8/17 watched The Birds outside 8/23 monocacy float w/james, katy, kids 9/7 two casts, two trout at camp wood 9/10 made 3 concord grape pies 9/12 online symposium at national press club 9/13 mtn biking at schaffer w/james, diana, police 9/18 made new friends - mauricio & haley 9/19 james did a good deed - lawnmower to shop for neighbor 9/28 tried fly fishing at farm 10/4 joined north bethesda camera club 10/19 geocaching w/diana, dave at sugarloaf; noodles & pool w/james, dave 10/25 tracked down leigh and charlie 10/30 marine corps marathon 11/1 nelson rocks, seneca rocks 11/20 upward enterprises family day 12/7 first skiing of season w/james, diana 12/10 climbing at sportrock w/james, matt, the boys 12/21 cut christmas tree in wild w/james 12/28 snowboarding w/james, katy, kids

year-end stats
over the past year, I went geocaching 29 times, went rock climbing 17 times, played tennis 9 times, visited with the boys 6 times, trekked to st. albans and blue bend 3 times each and took 2 wonderful canoe trips.
+Show goes on sans musicians
+Portable porn market eyed for video IPods
+Chronicling C.S. Lewis
+Blogging keeps seniors current
+Young Jews make traditions their own
+Baltimore country club opens membership to blacks
+Prince George's jail tracks inmates' gang history
+Artists' colony faces hefty taxes
+Congress signals subsidy for TVs
+School pulls folk song
+Aging brains stand test of time
+Laptops make technology child's play
+AAA names D.C. as top town for traffic tickets
+Obesity weighs on food industry
+Survey finds baby boomers high on life
+GOP ad blasts Democrats' 'retreat and defeat'
+More black families choosing to home-school
+Groups target bosses to deter illegal hiring
+Code Pink fighs sales of GI Joe
+Internet enables students to cheat
+Gulf churches unite for Christmas
+Desperate men turn to diamonds
+E-mails pre-sent to future
+New rings found around Uranus
+Rare American chestnut trees reported in wild
+Majority in U.S. believe in God
+Tiding of comfort, joy fill German newspaper
+Animal-borne diseases highlight shortage of vets
+Christmas trees fight thirst with efficiency
+Tsunami carried lessons to world on preparedness
+Sharon pitches Palestinian state
+Border initiative takes aim at smuggling corridor
+Devilish denim trendy in Sweden

best movies of '05
napoleon dynamite
paperclips
pieces of april
goodbye lenin

the station agent
willy wonka
maria full of grace
love actually

march of penguins
anchorman
crash
hotel rwanda