Love her to bits

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

Wont be long

The Ice will melt soon:

MN Zoo

More white stuff

Last night another inch and a half of snow fell in Savage, it cleaned up the crusty looking stuff so it looked pretty. Unfortunately the snow plow came through again, and again and built up a pretty pile at the end of the drive. It seems to me to take as long to clear the snow plowed pile as it does to do the rest of the drive and side walk.

Yesterday evening as a celebration dinner we cooked roast chicken and roasted vegetables (parsnips, carrots, potatoes, corn). We finished the meal with strawberries dipped in chocolate. To drink we picked up a cheap bottle of sparkling wine a Moscato Spumante from Bottega. Despite my scepticism it was very tasty.

Valentines Gift

J gave me a Nespresso coffee maker today.

so far I made two very nice espressos, unfortunately I had already had two 16oz cups of coffee at breakfast so I am now a little jittery...

The coffee was very smooth thick and flavorful, just like the best coffee I had last month in Sydney. We are now suckered into buying the small capsules of coffee but at least it is now easy to regulate how much coffee I drink, and in a matter of a minute I can have a wonderful espresso to wake me up on the way to work.

Thanks J - love you tons.

Decision time

For several months I have been contemplating the socio-political climate of blogging about work, technology, family and kayaking. I have reached the conclusion that I am going to separate them and that my original blog will become a kayaking only blog. I have established this blog as a duplicate of the previous posts (I cleaned out the past 6 months kayak posts). I am going through a process of re-branding my first blog to Paddling not politics (you will find that redirection from http://paddlingnotpolitics.com/ works), I am working with a friend Ron (master paddle maker extraordinaire) on some concepts around traditional paddling gatherings and I hope to share them on that blog soon. I am also still considering a technology only bog....
If you experience some weird redirects and cant get to the blogs give them a day to propagate the changes through the domain name servers please.
If you would like to comment on this decision please send me an email and let me know your thoughts.

East coast Blizzard

Emma had no school today as Baltimore County is digging out from about two feet of snow that fell over the weekend. Apparently more is on the way and they are thinking as many as three snow closure days...... Today was very cool for Emma and I as she finally got Skype video conferencing working and we were able to chat numerous time through out the day.