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1. Monday, December 02, 2024:
   Easy Photos Day    Snacks to sate appetites on the car drive to Thanksgiving Lunch.      When the Christmas Tree isn't getting put up fast enough, you take matters into your own hands.      Breakfast pile-up.      Cat in a Tree.      Placing the Christmas Star.      Last raking of the season.      Trying the Chocolate Smores shake at Burger 21.  
2. Friday, November 29, 2024:
   End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2024  album.       Events   Weekend in the Shenandoah, F 11/1 - S 11/3. Stayed at Skyland Lodge. Hiked Stony Man and Millers Head. Visited the Big Meadows Visitor Center. Stopped by Rady Park on the way home.    Took the kids to the grandparents' on M 11/4 and also bumped into my sister.    Voted on T 11/5. Family hike in Claude Moore then dinner at Chuy's.    Date night at Local Provisions on S 11/9.    Family hike in Claude Moore then dinner at Cafesano on T 11/12.    Friendsgiving at Tammy's on S 11/16.    Family hike in Claude Moore then dinner at F...
3. Monday, November 11, 2024:
   Mouse Day  Over the past two weeks, our laundry room began to smell progressively worse. I originally thought it was the carpet in the room we used to keep Amber in during the night time (to contain her old-cat bodily fluids) but by last Wednesday it was clear that something had died.   I traced the stench to this crack under the heat/air system using nothing but my finely-tuned nose.     I then used my dad's duct camera to navigate the inaccessible area until I found what appeared to be a tiny mole.     Not wanting to tear out the entire wall to get to the corpse, I initially tried a vacuum attachment with mesh wrapped around the tip.     This was unsuccessful (probably a...
4. Monday, November 04, 2024:
   Easy Photos Day    Eating pizza from Rappahanock Pizza Kitchen in room #151 of the Appledore building at Skyland Lodge.      Visible stars from our area.      Breakfast unicorn. (Maia ate the pancakes faster than any food she's ever been given).      At the top of the 1.3-mile Stony Man hike.      Sunset from one of the Skyline Drive overlooks. Maia is accompanied by her new friend, Snikky Snake (not "Sneaky").      Ian runs amok during our lunch stop at Rady Park on the way home. 
5. Wednesday, October 30, 2024:
   End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2024  album.       Events   Down with one of the kids' viruses on T 10/1.    15th Anniversary on H 10/3. Fall Break trip to Lusby, MD, H 10/3 - S 10/6. Visited Calvert Cliffs and the Marine Museum.    The kids went to the grandparents', F 10/11 - S 10/13.    Date night at Local Provisions on S 10/12 followed by a Bacon Brothers concert at Reston Town Center.    Went to the HOA meeting on W 10/16.    Helped out with my parents after a broken hip, F 10/18 - S 10/20.    Went to a work dinner celebrating a $1.6B contract on T 10/22.    Rebec...
6. Monday, October 28, 2024:
   Easy Photos Day    Maia receives a free soccer ball and a medal at the end of her 6-week free soccer program at Forest Grove.      Maia and Ian play their first VS Mario Kart race (Maia got the gold trophy and Ian came in 12th).      Trunk or Treat at Forest Grove. Ian was a spooky ghost but the costume was too big for walking around in.      Maia and Rebecca at an all-day Girl Scout event at Lake Fairfax.      Ian eating a burger at Miller's with me during the Girl Scout event.      Maia puts her new fire-starting skills to work so we can carve our pumpkins on the chilly patio ("This kindle tower is called 'the hashtag'.")&nbs...
7. Monday, October 21, 2024:
   Easy Photos Day    Ian and Grandpa go to the Firehouse Open House in Alexandria last weekend.      Heading into DC to the Natural History Museum.      The kids invent a unicorn-themed treasure hunt at the Sterling Community Center playground.      First fire pit and s'mores of the season this past Saturday night.  
8. Monday, October 07, 2024:
   Fall Break Wrap-up   Thursday : Drove out to Lusby, MD to a VRBO house in the Cove Point community. Walked out to the Cove Point Beach before having dinner at Atomic Seafood (1 lb of steamed shrimp and 1 lb of snow crab legs).        Friday : Met my parents at Calvert Cliffs State Park for a 1.8 mile one-way hike out to the beach. Found no sharks' teeth in spite of grandpa's heavy-duty homemade sieves. Dinner at the VRBO home -- mac and cheese for the kids and bulgogi bi bim bap for the parents.      Saturday : Went to the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, a wonderful find. Looked at a lot of marine life, went on a pedal boat, and up into a lighthouse. Dinner at Salsa's in t...
9. Monday, September 30, 2024:
   End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2024  album.       Events   Had Kenny & Sofia's family over for dinner (burgers and dogs) on S 9/1.    Visited the grandparents with the kids on M 9/2.    Family dinner at Bungalow Lakehouse on T 9/3.    Solo dad dinner at Local Provisions on W 9/4.    Date night (hike at Bazil Newman Riverfront Park followed by dinner at City Tap) on F 9/6.    Game afternoon with the Smiths on S 9/7.    Solo dad dinner at Local Provisions on W 9/11.    Got my COVID+Flu double tap on H 9/12.    Dinner at Chi & Sena's house before they lea...
10. Monday, September 02, 2024:
    Weekend Wrap-up  On Friday night, I surprised Rebecca with a date night to Coopers Hawk in Reston. Dinner was braised short ribs and blackened ahi tuna along with a red wine sampler. We also walked over to Reston Town Center for gelato and to see all of the restaurants that have risen and fallen since we stopped going there on a regular basis.   On Saturday, we went to Alamo Drafthouse for a family-friendly "Cat Video Fest". Maia loved it although it was really just a compilation of TikTok and YouTube clips with minimal, poor editing and transitions. Afterwards, Maia went off for a playdate with her friend, Rahel, then we all met up again later in the evening for Sweetfrog.   On Sunday, the rest of the family went off to chur...
11. Friday, August 30, 2024:
    End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2024  album.       Events   Solo dad dinner at Local Provisions on H 8/1.    The kids visited the grandparents, F 8/2 - S 8/4.    Rebecca and I went into DC by Metro for the AJR concert on F 8/2. Dinner at Irish Channel and lodging at the Fairfield Inn.    Rebecca and I went to Ghazaley's 40th Birthday Party on S 8/3.    Dinner with the grandparents and kids on S 8/4 (ham).    Family dinner at Fire Works Pizza followed by a splash pad visit on T 8/6.    Family trip to Claude Moore pool and climbing wall on F 8/9. Maia lost another tooth.   &n...
12. Monday, August 19, 2024:
    Easy Photos Day    Thumbs up for departure to Rhoadsville, VA.      His happy place.      Learning how to play Texas Hold'em.      All of the fandoms colliding in this game of pretend.      On the pond.      Tractor ride.      Newest driver.  
13. Monday, August 05, 2024:
    Weekend Wrap-up  On Friday afternoon, we went to the "closing ceremony" of Maia's STEM Camp at the Herndon Community Center. Teams of kids (Maia's team was "The Artists") had spent the week building little cars out of straws and other detritus and then raced them down a ramp. We also watched a stop-motion video that Maia had made on an iPad, showing a rainbow car driving down the road.   Afterwards, we transferred our kids to the grandparents' car at the nearest Target parking lot and drove to the Wiehle Metro station. Our kid-free trip to DC got off to an inauspicious start when our train went out of service for a broken A/C. The next train through the station experienced multiple delays, being stuck behind the out-of-service train throu...
14. Wednesday, July 31, 2024:
    End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2024  album.       Events   Rebecca took the kids to Runnymede Park on M 7/1.    Spent the 4th with my parents in Alexandria on H 7/4, then shot off a few fountains with the neighbours in our back yard.    Celebrated Maia's 7th birthday with grandparents and kid friends on S 7/6.    Maia went to the cat cafe (Meow's Corner) on S 7/7. Dinner with Patrick and Tammy in Ashburn.    Solo dad dinner at Local Provisions on M 7/8.    Barbeque with Jack, Jessika, and the Jackson family on S 7/13.    Took Maia on a birthday shopping trip to Target on S 7/14. Dinn...
15. Monday, July 29, 2024:
    Easy Photos Day    FRIDAY: Friends over to watch the Olympic Opening Ceremonies and eat bean chili.      SATURDAY: Lighting match houses in Taylorstown, accelerated with extra gunpowder.      SUNDAY: Trying out a new driveway color to avoid the "asphalt oven" effect without repaving. 
16. Monday, July 22, 2024:
    Tree Day  An ancient, long-dead tree in the common area forest behind our house fell in a storm on Monday the 15th.     The tree fell perfectly to avoid all damage to surrounding structures, like the beautiful shed my Dad and I built in June 2015. First, the barkless trunk fell straight down the woodchip trail towards our house. On its way down, it hit something that cracked the trunk in half.     The bottom half from the base up landed harmlessly in the middle of the trail. The top half was caught in the branches of a too-resilient Japanese honeysuckle tree, pinwheeling it and driving the sharp, cracked end one foot deep into the ground  inches away from the corner of the shed .    ...
17. Monday, July 08, 2024:
    Easy Photos Day    A little loopy after dancing with sparklers all night long.      7th Birthday Party!      Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting, handmade.     Meow's Corner. 
18. Friday, July 05, 2024:
    Wildlife Cam Day  In the spring, we moved our wildlife camera so it would cover a major woodland thoroughfare. The trail is regularly used by squirrels, cats, a skunk, a fox, a raccoon, chipmunks, and our resident herd of deer. While downloading the pictures from June to my computer, I came across this chilling entry:     This spot is a good 50 yards from any public road. After cartoonishly proclaiming, "What in the Blair Witch Project is going on back there?!" I applied NCIS ENHANCE! techniques to the images and sent them to my next-door neighbour, whose back fence can be seen in the images. The mystery man returned again a few weeks later, having quickly evolved legs and the ability to walk in bipedal fashion.    &n...
19. Monday, July 01, 2024:
    Mid-Year Check-In  We're already halfway through 2024! This year has been the most productive for me since before I had kids -- those halcyon years where I could just decide to code an open-source library on an  esoteric subject  for no good reason and then abandon the effort months later.   Here's what I've been up to:      Health : Still exercising daily and only eating steaks at restaurants. Doing, at a minimum, 20 minutes of Beat Saber or 1.5 miles jogging on the treadmill every day. Sometimes as much as 45 minutes of Beat Saber or 3 miles of jogging. Unfortunately, my blood pressure remains consistent.    Language : Still maintaining my Spanish on DuoLingo although I've gotten...
20. Friday, June 28, 2024:
    End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2024  album.       Events   Rebecca's old friend, Michelle, came to town on S 6/1. They hit the Lake Anne farmers market in the morning and we had a gathering with Fire Works pizzas at our house in the evening.    Impromptu date night at Local Provisions on M 6/3.    Family trip to Ball's Bluff Park on S 6/8. Dinner at Bungalow Lakehouse.    Solo dad dinner at Local Provisions on M 6/10.    Ian went to the grandparents', W 6/12 - F 6/14. Dinner with the grandparents on Friday night (hamburgers) to celebrate Maia's last day of First Grade.    Rebecca and Ian went to Ryd...

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