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The Duck Pond

Posted in In the Garden, Just For Fun on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Jan has created a peaceful oasis up on her roof, smack in the middle of downtown Georgetown.

Bacon Thursday: Bacon Ice Cream!

Posted in Food and Drink, Just For Fun, The Big C on May 13, 2010 | 11 Comments »

Happy Bacon Thursday everyone! And have I got a treat for you. Actually, it’s for me, but I absolutely had to share. Allow me to present the ultimate in sweet-meets-salty: Maple Brown Sugar Bacon Brittle Frozen Custard!!!! How awesome is that?! My friend Victoria, a culinary master with a creative streak a mile wide, created [...]

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The Healing Power of Bacon

Posted in Just For Fun, The Big C on April 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Happy Bacon Thursday all! A big thanks to Victoria for this. Somehow she thought of me when she saw it and I can think of no more appropriate recovery gift. And the free prize inside? A cute puffy bacon sticker. Mine mine mine.

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My New Theme Song: This Too Shall Pass

Posted in Just For Fun, Music, The Big C on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8718627&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. I previously mentioned the very clever videos the band OK Go created for their song This Too Shall Pass. I finally got around to downloading the song itself to my iTunes library, and in listening to it anew, I realized the lyrics [...]

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Operating Room Mix Tape

Posted in Just For Fun, Music, The Big C on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

There is a soundtrack to my life and music is a very big part of it. Music, all kinds of it, elevates my mood, fuels my walk, energizes my life, and speaks to my soul. So, it was very natural for me to want to know what music, if any, would be playing in the [...]

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The Met Meets the Lake

Posted in Home Movies, iPhone, Just For Fun, Opera on March 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Here’s my homage to Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog (highly recommended if you haven’t seen it) which I shot a few weeks ago after a warm up melted most of the ice and snow off Lake Michigan.

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Happy Day Light Savings!

Posted in Just For Fun on March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »

So, what are you planning to do with your extra hour of daylight today?

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OK Go Does It Again

Posted in Just For Fun, Music on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

If you thought the marching band video for “This Too Shall Pass” was clever, you ain’t seen nothing yet. I love this group. Love this video.

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The Bacon Thursday Taste Test

Posted in Food and Drink, Just For Fun on February 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »

What began as a random comment posted on Twitter about a month ago has become a weekly event–Bacon Thursday! Thursday is one of the days when I’m “working” from home, so I have the luxury to fry up some bacon for breakfast. I get my bacon from the awesomest butcher around, Holzkopf Meat Market in [...]

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Panorama of the Frozen Lakefront

Posted in iPhone, Just For Fun, Photography, Weather on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Thought I’d take a break from my BVI trip journal to feature a shot of the ice-encrusted lake from this weekend–to put it all in a little perspective. There’s ice as far as the eye can see and none of it moving. Chicago is hiding behind the trees on the right-hand side of the image. [...]

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