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Growing up

Daniel — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:31:20 +0000

As someone who struggled a bit to bite the bullet and grow up during my early 20s this post was interesting to me:

It’s a bit harsh at points but it’s an interesting statement on what our society thinks grownup means. It means being responsible and independence according to the article. I’m in complete agreement with the responsible part. The independence part not entirely if it means not depending on your friends for things and instead paying professionals. To me part of being friends to be be there for my friends. It’s okay to me that people depend on me. Here are some thoughts I had while reading:

You are completely fine to never send me a thank you note and save a tree.
Feel free to assume you can crash here if you need a place to stay when coming through town.
I will absolutely help you move. ASK ME. I kind of like it and I think it’s stupid to pay for movers.
You can tell me about your crazy dreams.

Roadtrip last weekend

Daniel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:06:23 +0000

I’ve been a little slow to update this blog on happenings. Last weekend we went up to Maryland for a little roadtrip with Nate, Anne, Alisha and Casey. We ate at Phillips, went to a concert(The Hold Steady), had Brunch at The City Cafe and played in my parents pool. Here is a fun video clip of Alicia and Anne learning how to dive off the diving board and Alisha showing off:

Welcome to the world Lucy Janelle Wiese!

Daniel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:26:15 +0000

Our good friends Scott and Jan had their baby last night! Lucy Janelle Wiese was born last night at 6:05 pm weighing 6 pounds 9 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. We went to see them tonight and she is adorable. Mom was a champ and was doing great. That is a picture of the happy new parents. Seriously, have you ever seen a couple look better after just having a baby?!?! And here is one of me holding her:

Gone fishing

Daniel — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:27:35 +0000

I went fishing yesterday up on the Rappahannock with my good friends Ryan and Nate. It was a good time of hanging out. We fished, threw around the frisbee and football, canoed, drank beer and fished some more. Fishing awards are as follows:

Most Fish Caught: Ryan(4)
Largest Fish: Me!
Save face: Nate for catching for his one and only fish at the end of the day

It was a great day of hanging out with friends and just enjoying nature. Good times!

The above picture is the big one. It’s also good evidence that I need to lose weight.

Google Street View and beautiful people

Daniel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:30:08 +0000

As a number of people have mentioned, Google has put up their street view of Richmond. While my lovely wife was exploring it she checked out Buzzy’s and saw some beautiful people out front. Check them out:

That’s us and our good friends Ryan and Aoife standing out front talking, forever memorializing us as Church Hillites and Buzzy’s addicts.

Update: Turns out Alicia found out about us in the photo from this CHPN post

Violence in Kenya

Daniel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:16:14 +0000

You’ve probably seen something on the news about the violence in Kenya since the election. If not then you should really follow a better news source(I suggest The Real News and/or CNN). This type of story is always more real when you have a personal connection to it. My friend Jake was over there doing photography work when all hell broke loose. To hear his story and see pictures head over and read his blog post about it. It’s a crazy and amazing story that includes getting attacked with a machete and being surrounded by an angry mob. I’m so relieved that he is home safe. Pray for peace in Kenya.

Crazy amounts of potluck fun!

Daniel — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:28:29 +0000

At my last count there were 23 people here for potluck last night! That is a record crowd! And the food was fantastic! Nothing is better than a house full of friends and lots of good stuff to eat and drink. Thanks everyone for coming out, we had a blast!

Thank you Facebook

Daniel — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:20:52 +0000

Today is my college roommate Drew’s 30th birthday(Happy Birthday Drew!). I know this because Facebook keeps track of that stuff for me, otherwise I am really bad about knowing birthdays. So I left Drew a comment saying happy birthday on Facebook. He wrote back and said he was just thinking about us because he was sitting in the Richmond airport. Weird. My college roommate who I haven’t seen in 9 years was 6 miles from our house. So after a couple more messages back and I forth I ended up going over to the airport and we got to hang out for about an hour and a half. How cool is that! It’s pretty amazing that we both look pretty much like we did 9 years ago, except he can grow facial hair now(I still can’t really, stupid bald patches) and has some. We had a nice time catching up on life. Good times. Thank you Facebook for making that happen.

If any other old friends read this and ever come through Richmond you better let me know so we can meetup, okay?