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Geckos in Baltimore

I was in Chicago yesterday evening and most of today. I had some meetings with my Interactive Agency, Euro RSCG. Dinner was fun and the meetings were successful and I'm back home now. This cow is in Euro's 3rd floor lobby. I don't know where it lived when it was on the street a few years ago. 

Chicago

Andrew and sacha

Rain

Lots of it. It was a pretty dreary day with rain and a really dark sky. The boys are feeling better but I'm sure they will be thrilled to go outside tomorrow and play at the park after being stuck inside all day. I guess they did go out for a little shopping but no chance to run around outside. I don't have any new recent pictures but will be sure add some on Sunday when we have some people over for an Easter egg hunt, if not sooner.

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Check out the new Social Security spot from AARP on the AARP Social Security blog. This whole campaign has been pretty successful and this is the latest tv ad pushing the issue forward.

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Today

No new pictures to post and the news is rather boring. Sam is still a little sick but his temp is down in the 101 range and Dylan shows no sign of the bug, yet... Work was busy and it's time to go to bed. More later...

The boys singing happy birthday to Grandma Carolyn. Well, they weren't actually singing but they do have party hats on. They are looking forward to seeing a bunch of Grandparents in the next few weeks. Happy birthday Mom.  

Full Bloom 

The boys got a much needed hair cut today. Look you can see their eyes. They were really good too. Not too squirmy this time. They do have colds again but that's to be expected. I'm also posting a shot of the first flowers coming up in the yard. I think winter is done here.

Sooo... St Patricks Day was a good time. We stood in line at 8:30am to see Better Than Ezra at LuLu's but they had already played by the time we got in at 9:15. I did get this camera phone shot of the BTE guys as they went in the building. Jud, Kumie, Lynn and I hung out there for an hour or so then Jud and I went up to Ireland's Four Provences in Cleveland Park. This was Jud's 13 year of celebrating St. Patricks Day there and my 3rd or 4th visit for the annual event. Gerald (g-man) and Mike and a few others showed up and fun was had by all.

I sent the Jud and G-man picture yesterday using flickr but it some how didn't post till this morning. Oh well, I try to up to the minute but technology oftens lets me down.

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Happy st patricks day

Jud and g man

Rocks

Better than ezra

I have nothing to say today but here's a little boy candy from Sunday. They are the cutest.  

Sorry about missing a post yesterday. I sent one with my Blackberry but it obviously hasn't gotten here yet. This blog is a goggle product and I expect better from them but maybe it's just a temporary problem due to the recent popularity of bogging. I don't know but it pisses me off. Anyway, got a new car tonight. Took the old Acura TL back and picked up a new one. This one has some way cool tech stuff on it including bluetooth phone capability and XM Satelite Radio. It's also better designed and has a much bigger navigation screen with improved nav software. Should be fun to drive.

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Lunch at Fridays complete with views of airplanes. 

The boys got an extra treat today. A ride on a train to the airport. This was their first Metro ride and we went four stops to DCA and had lunch at Fridays. Nothing like taking a train to go see airplanes. National (i can't call it Reagan) Airport has some very nice shops as well and I picked up a new computer bag and the boys got little 747's complete with flashing jet engines and really annoyingly loud jet engine sounds. More later...  

We all went to the airport today to watch AIRPLANES! The boys really like to see airplanes flying, especially Sam. The wind was from the NW and cold so the plans were taking off toward the north which isn't quite as fun as them taking off to the south and landing from the north. They get really low over the park at the end of the runway when landing from that direction and Sam and Dylan duck as if they are going to be hit. Funny stuff. Tommorow we may take them on the Metro, or to them, a TRAIN!

BTW, check out www.durpenters.org for a couple more pictures I loaded to flickr that show up on the right side of my site. More soon...

They are right on top of us.

Enough planes, time to go. 

Yummy

Pizza party

Maryland sucks

Wacky dave

Snow and berries. This is a look at the conflict between winter and spring going on right now. It's really pretty cold for early march in DC but it will probably 60 or 70 degrees in the next week or so. Golf courses should be greening up in no time. 

Dressed for work

Big shirts

Ok, no new pictures again today due to lots of stuff going on. I took this one last week sometime and it is rather cute. Work has been hectic but going well. The ACC Basketball Tournament is at the MCI Center starting tomorrow so I plan on taking some time off on Friday afternoon and watch some of the games at a bar in the neighborhood. I think Wacky Dave and Modean will be coming downtown to meet me. Anyway, heading to bed early again tonight. Long day tomorrow. 

Tuesday Post

This has been a busy day and I have not been able to come up with anything good to blog about. Nicole stayed home sick today and the boys are both running a fever. I'm not feeling sick yet but with all those kudies running around, I'm bound to catch something. I think I'm going to bed now and with a little extra sleep I may avoid the bug.

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Good morning

Sam and norm

Sam and Dylan may live in one of the rooms on either side of this picture someday.  

Nicole and I spent the Saturday night in Charlottesville Virginia while Dinah watched the boys. We started the day visiting a couple vineyards along route 29. I think this one was my favorite http://www.barboursvillewine.com We ended up at 200 South Street Inn around 4pm and that's where you got the Nap and Dinner photo's below. We did a quick tour of the University of Virginia campus and hit another vineyard before getting back home at 3pm today. More soon...

Blue light

Dinner

Before dinner

Nap

These are my new Ugg slippers sent from Adam, Linda and Gil. They picked them up at some swanky Oscars party last weekend and sent them out east with a whole box filled with other jiggy products. My feet are totally LA now. Thanks a bunch guys...More later... 

Happy Anniversary to us. Thanks everyone for the cards and gifts. We had a couple drinks and a nice dinner tonight. More later... 

My group at AARP Services held a web site re-design construction tour or open house. We are counting down the days when the new and improved www.aarp.org will make it's appearance and we now have a staff of 48 working deligently to make it happen. This whole process has taken over a year to complete and once we launch, we start making more improvements. The web site is steadly becoming a primary driver for AARP's communications and commerce activities and has temendous support from all levels of the organization. I was really happy with the event and show of support we got from my bosses, the President of AARP Services and the Chief Communications Officer at AARP. Our online usability room was done up like a real constructions zone and we invited most of our internal clients to come look at all the work that had been done and learn about what happens next. It's Nicole's and my wedding anniversary today and we are going out for a quick dinner tonight then back to put the kids to bed. More later... 

Early nap in hall

Still sleepy

Ok so it snowed a little. Woke up this morning to a beautiful coat of white all over the trees and lawn. This is a shot from our side door heading out to the driveway. The snow barely stuck to the roads but it sure did a number on the trees. It's sunny now so most of this will be gone by the time I get home tonight. More soon...