So as of Thursday morning, Kelly and I are engaged. To be married.
And a very strange thing is happening. People keep telling her congratulations and I want to be like “You know, she is getting married to me, right?”
Greetings all, and Happy New Year, almost. What is there to say about a year like 2009? If you’ve been following my letters, you know that for the first few years I tried to be as ridiculous as possible, mocking what seems to be the traditional end of year letter where people whine and moan [...]
I hope that everyone out there had a lovely Christmas. I certainly did. I got lots of lovely presents, and spent the whole day hanging out with my family and eating way too much food. So that seems like a pretty good day.
This year, as opposed to previous years, I am writing a New Years [...]
It was requested, and here it is. The text of the wedding speech, for those that couldn’t make it, and didn’t watch the video.
Wedding Speech
Happy Birthday, Phil! We all miss you and can’t wait to see you next week!
As many of you know, this weekend was July 4th weekend. And what is the most American thing to do to celebrate our independence? Why shooting off fireworks, of course. Drunkenness can be included, if you so wish, but that greatly increases the chances of getting blown up by said fireworks.
So being good American’s, after [...]
As three of you may know, Father’s Day and Abby’s birthday are both coming up. And you know what that means? Buying presents for people that are impossible to buy presents for. And Abby’s birthday is especially important this year, because she claims that last year I did not get her a birthday present. I [...]
Ever since Kelly came around, there has been a disease that has slowly been affecting our family. I’m gonna call it “dog disease”. Before Kelly, our family was not made up of dog people. In fact, we were decidedly anti-dog. Even more in fact, for the longest time, we were anti-pet people, due to Phil’s [...]
I know that I haven’t written much on here lately. I’ve been kind of busy, and so it doesn’t always cross my mind to come on here and entertain my throngs of adoring fans. But since I’m here, some entertainment is in order. Perhaps you’d like to know about some of these things that have [...]
I planned my next trip to California, this time for a week in July. Nothing silly about that, you say. Ahh, but if you remember, I’m the guy who likes to plan his trips based around the interestingness of the airplane, not the schedule or price or anything like that. Well this time I got [...]
I don’t know how much I’m at liberty to say, but today could be viewed as a somewhat big day. So I’d like to say congrats to all of those involved!
Everyone else, sorry for the mystery. But that is fun, right?
I’m leaving Friday to visit California again. I’m really excited, but I’m not really sure what I’m going to do. Last time I was out there, I’m pretty sure that I did everything there is to do. We went to the computer history museum. We went to the airplane museum. We ate Indian food. So [...]
So my brother is getting married. And I’m in charge of the bachelor’s party. Well, me and two of his friends, Chris and Mateo. And as hard as this is to believe, I’m the most restrained.
Anyway, it is sorta my job to come up with things to do. And these have to be things that [...]
I’ve done a lot of thinking about this letter. In the past years I’ve gone way out of the way to be more and more outlandish and ridiculous, making fun of all of the people who bemoan all of the bad things that happen to them. And so I was sitting around, trying to figure [...]
Happy Birthday, Mom.
Edit: It has come to my attention that SOME people think that this post was lame. Well I sat this morning for like 30 minutes staring at the screen trying to think of something clever or witty to say, or moving, or heartwarming. And I couldn’t come up with anything because I felt [...]
I know that I’ve been back for a week, but I’m finally going to get around to some highlights of the trip.
-The weather was amazing. I think that it was 75 and sunny every day that I was there. I can imagine how it might get old to have weather like that every day, but [...]