Author Archives: Dan
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Join a CSA (#31)
Posted on May 9, 2010 by Dan in 100 things, food.CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Basically, you pay a farm directly, and every so often you get a box of whatever fruits and vegetables they grow on their farm delivered to you. I’d been wanting to do this for awhile, because I love the idea of the people who grow the crop actually getting […]
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Can. Not. Take. It. Anymore.
Posted on May 7, 2010 by Dan in random.While the blog has undergone a mini makeover, I am SO TIRED of Blogger. We will probably be migrating soon to a new site, stay tuned. Also, Dan started a (small) fire in our kitchen. We’re down two kitchen towels, a knife block, and some knives. Full story to come.
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Impressive, no?
Posted on April 30, 2010 by Dan in family.Last weekend, my mom completed her 3rd Avon Walk for Breast Cancer! She and her friend Loretta walked 39.3 miles over two days in the 90 degree heat. The whole walk had 3000 participants, including 271 breast cancer survivors, and they raised $6.8 MILLION for breast cancer research. STRONG.
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Congratulations v.14
Posted on April 27, 2010 by Dan in family, growing up.Congratulations to my cousin Christine and her fiance Kevin! They got engaged yesterday And isn’t this picture sort of ridiculously happy looking (this is not from yesterday, apparently they are always this happy looking). You may remember this post where I was having dreams about this very event, but my predicting the future skills are a […]
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Progress Report
Posted on April 22, 2010 by Dan in 100 things, lists.Happy Birthday Missy! Congratulations to Meghan and Jess on being gainfully employed! I’m so happy for both of you Before my dad sends me another entry about his visit here, I just wanted to say that for maybe two days after finishing my 100 things list, I was a bit overwhelmed. But, since then, […]
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Dad’s visit, Day 3
Posted on April 18, 2010 by Dan in family, travel.(Sidenote: My dad came to visit in late March, and he’s going to be sending me his account of what we did on his visit. The day he is talking about we drove north to eat oysters fresh out of the water.) So many highlights – each day was unique and memorable! I’m jumping right […]
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City Walk: Presidio (#88)
Posted on April 12, 2010 by Dan in 100 things, city walks, San Francisco.If you look up the Golden Gate Bridge on GoogleMaps, directly to the south, there’s a big green area – that’s the Presidio. It’s 1490 acres – much of which is just open space. It used to be a US military post, as recently as 1994. Congress wrote a law stipulating that if it wasn’t […]
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Age Appropriate Humor
Posted on April 1, 2010 by Dan in random.I got this from another blog, but thought it was worth reposting. Apparently, it’s been going around as an email forward, as “Thoughts of a 25-35 Year Old,” which normally I would think was stupid, except I agree with every single one of them. Good times. · More often than not, when someone is telling […]
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Updates
Posted on March 20, 2010 by Dan in lists.OK, so I made the list into its own page (see link above) so I can update and cross things off as I go. I also divided it up into different sections, added some of the items you suggested (thanks Ro, Franklin and Dana!), and crossed off one thing already. Also – just for Rosa, […]
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Hello?? Echo,echo,echo…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by Dan in 100 things.Seriously people. I need suggestions. Help me out here.
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