Category: General

We make eggs a lot, and we like a little spice, so here’s my recipe. Leave out the hot things if you don’t like spice. I like a large non-stick pan, and a silicon...

Way behind on posting photos, sorry. Mixture in here of pictures from our curling trip this weekend and the month or so leading up to it. UPDATE 2015-03-25 : Added some pictures from Casey:

This weekend we had our first full-family road trip since Nora was born. The occasion? Our annual curling pilgrimage. What a blast! While I finished second for at least the 5th year in a...

Just wanted to share this quick video of Madeline singing along to “Let it Go” at Disney on Ice in Providence last week. [wpvideo iRIfpD3E]

We’ve been taking advantage of the great weather. A few shots from the yard last weekend: And yesterday we did bacon and French toast on the grill; smashing success! A recital – sort of...

Sorry it took such a long time to get to these, but here are our pictures from Rome / Vatican City, Pompeii, Positano / Capri, Capo Rizzuto, Alberobello, and Venice. This is a small...

(Yes, the typo in the title was intentional.) I had a fantastic time at SQL Saturday #256 this weekend in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Great event, hilarious after-party, and some of the best hospitality you’ll ever...

Finally catching up on a whirlwind month. First, I wanted to be sure we posted a 9 month picture of Madeline, from June 28th, which we missed in our last couple of updates:

Yesterday Henry came over for a play date while Michelle went to NYC.

Summer moves quickly. We had Henry’s birthday, July 4th, a trip to Canada… lots of pictures to show but I’ll save the stories for real time.

This past weekend was Madeline and Henry’s last swim class of the season. They both have made so much progress and love the water…which is both a blessing and a curse. It’s great that...

This weekend I spoke at SQL Saturday #229 in Dublin, and Sunday I went with Magda and her son Mattie to Giant’s Causeway and the 13th Century Dunluce Castle.

Just a couple of recent pics & videos to share.

I spent last week in Alaska with a bunch of friends on SQL Cruise. We left Seattle and headed to Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, and Victoria, BC. This was the same itinerary as the trip...

A week ago today, I was watching the Boston Bruins on the brink of yet another crushing series loss that had started so well. Even winning a Cup in the meantime, there is still...

Today was Madeline’s first swim class. Henry had started last week and tested the waters for us (see what I did there?). The kids are so close in age that it’s easy to compare...

Sorry, this particular post is not about Madeline, though I miss her very much! I am currently in Manchester, UK, heading home tomorrow. I’m on a work trip but got to see a variety...

So if you enlarge this one, check out the time on the cable box, funny right?

So it took a couple weeks before Briggs had any worthwhile trees in stock, but yesterday Pepe and Madeline were finally able to plant their Christmas tree in our yard – a nice blue...

Today Pepe came over to plant a tree with Madeline. She was a good supervisor.

We got up at the usual time and had our coffee: Then we went over to Mem and Pepe’s for Easter festivities. Watched some kid videos, blew bubbles in the yard, even watched some...

Today we went to Diamond Hill State Park with Michelle and Henry for their annual Easter egg hunt. Unfortunately when we looked up the information last week, the first result showed March 31st, but...

It’s been a while since our last update. We had a great trip to Canada after Christmas, but then January and February were filled with lots of changes – Nicole went back to work,...

On our last day in North Bay, we left Madeline with Nana (my mom), had poutine, then went out on the lake. When we went back to Nana’s we looked at some old pictures....

Our last stop on this trip was my hometown, North Bay, Ontario. We got to see a ton of people here: My mom, Casey, Dan, Julie, Hayden, Connor, Todd, Julie, Max, Myriame, Scott, Julie,...

On the 31st we drove from Ottawa to Midhurst, Ontario, via Toronto. We spent New Year’s and the next day with Kirk and Petra (and their three girls) and James and Laurie (and Talbot...

On the 30th we drove from Quebec City to Ottawa, and had a visit with our friends Matt, Sam and Jakson (oh and their cats, Brian and William).

We took a quick walk around Old Quebec this morning, here are the pics. Sorry for the fisheye lens but it came in real handy for a few of the shots of our hotel....

A few more shots of Madeline during the rare hours when we’re not in the car:

Madeline is now three months old. It is tough to find time to blog. Or eat or sleep, for that matter. 🙂 She’s actually been a really good sleeper – 7, 8, 9 hours...

Nicole, Madeline and I drove to North Carolina last week to visit SQL Sentry. Here is about the only interesting thing I notice every time I pass through New Jersey:

…and that means a whole lot of things. We went to Michelle and Henry’s for Thanksgiving. We had a great meal, laughed at the collective ineptitude of Tony Romo and Ryan Sanchez, and celebrated...

Here are a few pictures from Madeline’s first photoshoot, which I described in agonizing detail last month. Click on any picture to enlarge.