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What we do when we are just around the house doing our normal thing.

Grado Headphones

August 19, 2016

I am a HUGE fan of Grado headphones. Many years ago I wanted the SR80s but I didn't NEED them so I used my old cheap set. And one year for Christmas, my Dad surprised me with the Grado SR80 headphones!

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Plaid Flatware

August 18, 2016

I was wandering around Anthroplogie the other day. They have the cutest kitchen stuff. I always enjoy looking at it but I rarely buy anything because we don't really NEED anything for our kitchen.

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I found a Fitbit

August 17, 2016

I was out walking the other morning and I found a Fitbit on the ground. I posted on our neighborhood forum that I found it but I didn't get any responses. A lot of people come into Georgetown to work

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Poodles need hair cuts!

August 16, 2016

I saw this cute Poodle joke on why Poodles need hair cuts:

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iPad drawing and creative hand lettering

August 12, 2016

I recently took a class at our local Paper Source here in Georgetown.  It was a Creative Hand Lettering class.  We worked on our handwriting and adding finishing touches to our letters to make them look

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Setting up an Apple Time Capsule

August 8, 2016

I had a small USB drive hooked up to my network for the past few years that I was using as a Time Machine backup. It did a fine job and I even used it to recover all of my data when I bought a new Mac

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Email List Changes

June 21, 2016

I have made some changes to how our email list works. Now you can choose which topics you would like to receive by email, so if you don't really care about the great restaurants that we find or you just

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Nautical Charts as Clocks?

June 1, 2016

On our recent trip to Annapolis, Maryland we were walking through town when we passed a shop that had the most amazing clocks on display in the window. After walking inside we quickly realized that they

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Blue Angels in Annapolis

May 31, 2016

Last week was graduation week from the US Naval Academy and on Wednesday the Blue Angels were performing over the campus in Annapolis, Maryland. Because this was only an hour drive away and the Blue Angels

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The film project

May 30, 2016

Not long ago I started a new project, this one deals with films and has been a great learning experience. I am building this project for the web, iOS and also tvOS so keeping things consistent across

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DC Blizzard

February 1, 2016

I'm about a week late in posting this but there is still snow on the ground for now so it's not too late. I shot some time lapse video of our crazy blizzard last Friday night and Saturday morning and I

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Keeping your information secure online

December 8, 2015

I am in the process of moving my web content to a new hosting service because my previous host was pretty far behind in their security configurations. They still allow MD5 encryption as an option for

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Image fun continues

September 16, 2015

I've made more progress since initially discovering the fun that can be had when playing with web servers and image requests. I have several nice log files of every site that is linking to my images,

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Biscuits and Gravy - Home Made

March 5, 2015

A few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to have biscuits and gravy for breakfast but I really didn't want to try to find it in DC because the restaurants here never seem to get things like this right.

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Realistic Baby Doll at FAO Schwarz

December 1, 2014

I always enjoy listening to my friends talk about their children. Today the talks were about amazing hotel beds in NYC this past long weekend and how the kids didn't want to sleep in at all so mom and

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Unplugged

June 30, 2014

I've really cut back on my social media this year. I haven't been updating my blog, Facebook or Twitter much. I decided that 2014 was going to be a lot more focused on our little family. Chris and

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Bacteria in old shampoo nearly killed James, our Standard Poodle

June 6, 2014

This is going to be a long post, but I wanted everything in one place. I want other people to know the dangers of bacteria with old beauty products! Sunday May 25, 2014 We took our Standard Poodle

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James and Buffy

April 24, 2014

James LOVES his neighbor girlfriend, Buffy. She is a Mastiff. They love playing together and yesterday when I told James it was time to head inside he started giving Buffy kisses! It was very sweet. Do

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Nerd Glasses

April 17, 2014

Chris went to a developer conference and came home with these funny glasses from Big Nerd Ranch. I told him to think about what his next big idea was while wearing them and I would take his picture. What

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St. Patrick's Day 2014

March 24, 2014

We had another snow day on St. Patrick's Day this year! We just got back from New Orleans and found a really cute top hat with a green feather that would be a perfect accessory for James. Here he

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