Youuuuuuuk!
Is it just me, or does this guy just look totally stoned? don't get me wrong, he's one of, if not my favorite players on the Red Sox. But he looks baked!
Techie Post:Random Geekery
Yeah, I'm not sure if that's a word either, but truthfully, I couldn't care 
A friend sent this to me, and it took me a sec to get it:
2 steps forward, and randInt(1,3) steps back
NBC won’t show…
Interesting that NBC is owned by GE, which I hadn't known before. Makes me want to go out and buy a Natural Gas Car
Speaking of which, if we do decide to move to more electric based technologies, aren't we still going to be dependent on foreign oil to generate all that electricity? I genuinely don't know.
Family
It's amazing how two short visits will rekindle feelings I haven't had in a long time. We were at my Dad's 70th birthday in May and Fae and I got to hang out with a bunch of my cousins that I hadn't seen in a while. With promises to keep in touch and get together soon, we left, and I felt a little sad because we had all said it before and of course it never happened.
Fae, thankfully, decided to take matters into her own hands and contacted my cousin in Albany the day after the party and the two of them nailed down a day, and my sister extended her stay back east so we could all hang out. So last weekend, after my company picnic on Friday, Fae and I drove up there with the kids to stay with my cousin MP. MP has a daughter Aidan's age, and a son that's a little older than Gillian. My other cousin Mo came up by train and met us up there. Friday night was cool because Fae put the kids to bed and I hung out and talked to my cousins for a while. Woke up the next AM and more of the same until around 2 when Peg got there with her two, and Tom got there around 3 with his wife and two kids. What transpired was not necessarily a walk down memory lane, but a reconnection on a level I hadn't really anticipated. It was comfortable, fun, and hilarious at times, sitting around the pool and then the dinner table that night.
We left that night and came home, and reflected on what a great experience it was all around. In the meanwhile, and my Father In Law's 70th birthday, Fae reconnected with her cousin that lives in Philly, and decided the same thing: lets REALLY get together and hang out. We went to Philly yesterday afternoon and hung out at her one cousin's place with her three kids, and then over to her brother's house in Philly and had dinner and sat and chatted. It had the same feeling of reconnection and rightness that the day in Albany had the weekend before.
I guess what I'm trying to say is Family is important. With all of their flaws, weaknesses, idiosyncrasies, joys, strengths, and fun quirks - keeping in touch and fostering those bonds is really important. We all sometimes get so caught up in the every day that we don't realize that it's been WAY too long since you picked up the phone, or talked with or sat down to dinner with these people who are so precious and special.
Know someone it's been a while since you talked to them and wish you could see/talk to them? Call them today, make a point of it.