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Milwaukee in the summer

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

Rachel and I had the chance to see the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s last concert of the 2004-2005 season yesterday. The MSO played a free lunchtime “best of Mozart” show in Cathedral Square park and we took full advantage of the beautiful weather to have a picnic (sushi from Metro Market no less!). It was a [...]

Snow is a four-letter word

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

Like Craig says, snow is fun when you’re a kid but not when your boss says that 10+ inches of the white stuff is no reason to call in to work. I don’t own a shovel, so I had to use a saucer sled to dig my car out. I almost didn’t make it out [...]

Green flames, green flames! And then all hell broke lose!

Monday, November 8th, 2004

Thanks to a solar flare hitting the Earth last night, the ensuing geomagnetic storm sparked a massive showing of the aurora borealis, a.k.a. Northern Lights. Only on extremely rare occasions can they be seen back in Florida, so this was actually my first time seeing them!

(Photo courtesy of a fellow Milwaukee-county resident, as I no [...]

Milwaukee 53227

Tuesday, May 11th, 2004

Took me long enough, but I finally got everything situated at the new place. Anyone that knows where it’s at (ie: those of you that helped me move all my stuff) is welcome to stop by and check it out. Give it a few more weeks and it’ll be that much closer to being the [...]

Driving through Hell

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

My headache of a commute begins tomorrow… and lasts for four years!