September 1, 2008 – 10:23 am
It’s amazing to me that it is September 1st and the unofficial end of summer here in the United States. When I was growing up, my parents told me that time would seem to move much faster as you got older. As usual, they were right. Yesterday, our Cape Cod crew got together for the [...]
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August 26, 2008 – 10:58 am
RTT
The rest of RTT
RTT
It’s funny. When I am on Cape Cod, I sleep so much better. As a result, my good sleep habits may come at the expense of RTT. There’s still plenty to think about but the gears are definitely moving slower.
☞Let’s get to it. A regular reader here, Holly from Anglophile Football Fanatic, [...]
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August 4, 2008 – 11:48 am
The Weekend
The Jump
The Weekend
This past weekend on Cape Cod began one day earlier with a low key celebration of my best friend, Murph’s, 50th birthday. Low key and Murph aren’t usually two things you would see in the same sentence but hell, we all are getting older. Murph, like me, is retired and is also [...]
It’s Wednesday night and it’s man and his dog. Technically, Grover is as much mine as Chris’ but make no mistake, he is Chris’ little king. But she is in New York and I will have to do. At the last moment today, I decided to go to the Cape and plot my next move. [...]
Yep, the 5 x 5 may be on life support but it’s back on today. How long it will be around for is another thing entirely.
5 Things that I Hope to Do Someday
Play the saxophone
Speak at least one foreign language fluently
Own a boutique hotel in St Andrews
Shoot par again
Visit all 7 continents
5 New Bands I [...]
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Damn. It’s Monday, July 7, 2008 and we are back from our 10 day holiday. While I have already said all of this to Chris, I will say it here also. I had the greatest time ever. I owe the greatest time ever to my wonderful wife. We did everything together as the slide show [...]
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On a couple of occasions that I talked about golf here on the Grand View, I was roundly heckled. “Who cares about golf,” the crowd jeered. Me. That’s who. Yesterday, I played golf with one of my oldest and closest pals, Murph. He’s the one on the left not looking too pleased (He had just [...]