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1. Wednesday, November 22, 2023:
   Thanksgiving Retrospective   pictures from Thanksgivings past          Since we apparently vanished from 2017 - 2020, here is a bonus picture.   
2. Wednesday, October 18, 2023:
   Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 9 years ago today, on  October 18, 2014 .     It was our first night in Seattle. The host of our B&B (11th Avenue B&B in Capitol Hill) welcomed us by giving us a map with all of the neighbourhoods that "got wild at night" circled. We ended up having dinner at Elysian Brewery amongst the hippies and hipsters and Rebecca got an entree that was at least 108% cous-cous.   After dinner and beer flights, we started walking back to our B&B when, just as prophesized, it got wild at night! These bottles of beer ran up to Rebecca danced around her for several minutes, then disappeared down the street. 
3. Wednesday, October 11, 2023:
   Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 14 years ago today, on  October 11, 2009 .     This is a view of the sunrise off the eastern shore of Kauai, as seen from our cozy second-story Kapaa Sands condo. It was day 7 of 14 on our Hawaii honeymoon and I was 4 days free of the strep throat that someone had given me at our wedding.   We stayed close to the condo this day, visiting tide pools and stray cats. We visited a sea geyser, Spouting Horn, which was underwhelming at low tide, and had a delicious dinner at the Beach House restaurant on the North Shore. 
4. Wednesday, October 04, 2023:
   Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 9 years ago today, on  October 4, 2014 .     We were on the Shenandoah River next to Harper's Ferry following a day of vigorous hiking and eating a giant pork chop at Dish, a Charles Town farm-to-table restaurant that existed before every restaurant tried to do the same thing (sadly, it is now out of business). After taking this picture, we walked into Harpers Ferry for ice cream at scoops.   I took over 30,000 steps on this day, according to my defunct FitBit account. I lost my brand new FitBit within 10 minutes of taking this picture, just 19 days after having received it for my birthday. I interpreted this as a sign that my path in life should not involve any sort o...
5. Wednesday, September 06, 2023:
   Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 32 years ago, in the summer of 1991.     We had finally relegated the trundle bed under my main bed to the trash bin, opening up a vast expanse for storage in my tiny childhood bedroom. I positioned crates full of Lego sets along the outer edge of the bed and draped the quilt over them, leaving a small BU-sized hole to crawl into. Under the bed became my secret area where I hung out when I didn't want to be bothered by my sister. I would chew two pieces of grape Bubble Yum, play the Dances with Wolves soundtrack on my boom box, and read the novel, Dances With Wolves next to a small reading light. (When the soundtrack ended, I would flip the tape over to Handel's Water Music).   Th...
6. Wednesday, August 23, 2023:
   Memory Day: Bedroom Painting  This is the E. Near painting that hung over my parents' bed since the late 1970s. With direct lighting, it actually looks moderately vibrant, but on the wall, it's a murk of faded, gloomy colors.     My parents gave me this painting (and other similar ones) as "starter art" when I first moved into my house in Sterling back in 2004. Over the years, they've gradually been replaced with art I actually like. This one was replaced with  Sitting Tree  last June and has been boxed up in the closet ever since. No one in the family seemed to want it for nostalgia's sake but Evil Mike snapped it up when I posted about it on Facebook so he is the proud new owner.   Here's a picture of the family under the ...
7. Wednesday, August 16, 2023:
   Memory Day: Twenty-Two Years Ago Today  Twenty-two years ago today, on  August 16, 2001 , I arrived in Florida to become a music grad student at Florida State.   Fresh off the Amtrak auto-train in Sanford, FL, I first had another 280 miles to drive before reaching Tallahassee. The road trip was about as boring as I-81 to Virginia Tech, although I greatly enjoyed discovering I-10 where speed limits were never enforced and the slowest cars were going 85.   I arrived at Parkwood Apartments (now rebranded with imaginary class as  The Edge @ 401 ) around 2 PM, a quiet cinderblock building that was comparably clean and less damp than other apartments nearby. It was across from a cemetary and just three blocks from the music buildings,...
8. Wednesday, July 05, 2023:
   Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 31 years ago, on  July 4, 1992 .     Could I be any more entertained? 
9. Wednesday, June 21, 2023:
   Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 30 years ago, on  June 4, 1993 , and was recently unearthed at my parents' house.     This was taken at my junior high Freshman Prom (called the "Freshman Banquet" for some reason that did not involve cannibalism) and shows the pack of friends that mostly stayed together throughout the night. From left to right: Zulfan, myself, Rachel, Beza, Jennie, Michelle, Cheryl, Geoffrey, and Michelle's date from another school. 
10. Wednesday, May 24, 2023:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 10 years ago today, on  May 24, 2013 .     We were at the Veramar Vineyard in Berryville, VA, on the way to a bed & breakfast in downtown Winchester to celebrate Rebecca's recent graduation from her physical therapy program at NOVA. These were the halcyon days full of free time where we could just dump a bunch of cat food in a bowl and take off for the weekend on the spur of the moment. 
11. Wednesday, May 03, 2023:
    Memory Day: 20 Years Ago Today  Twenty years ago today, on  May 3, 2003 , I made my final trip home from Tallahassee, detached forever from the potential academic composition career I might have pursued. The 900 mile trip took about 13 hours total, and I was sharing the road with my parents who came down with the big truck for my largest items of furniture (mostly a massive CRT monitor that weighed fifty pounds). After an overnight stay in a cheap motel, Booty and I did the last six hours of the trip in my 2001 Honda Accord. I let her out of the cat carrier because worrying that she might squeeze under the brake pedal and cause an accident was less of a concern than having to listen to her caterwauling the entire length of I-95. (She just explored the car ...
12. Wednesday, March 15, 2023:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  These pictures were taken 21 years ago today, on  March 15, 2002 .     The weather in Tallahassee was such that an afternoon in mid-March had the exact same temperature as one in November or June. As first-year grad students with nothing useful to do, we took a mid-morning trip to Wakulla Springs. The trip was forgettable, other than a plethora of wildlife to observe on the tour boat. Mike (of Mike and Chompy) had a brief obsession with posing in pictures as if he were an alligator around this time. 
13. Wednesday, February 08, 2023:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 9 years ago today, on  February 8, 2014 .     Rebecca had just gotten her very first iPhone and laid down on the living room floor to figure out all of its features. Booty liked this game.   This was a much quieter February than many of late. Big "INs" of the month were the Winter Olympics in Russia, no kids, huge snowstorms that kept us indoors for days,  House of Cards  on Netflix, and the release of a quaint little online card game,  Hearthstone .   It would be another two years before I finally got my own smartphone (the phone I had in 2014 slid open to reveal the tiny keyboard inside), and another six months after that before I act...
14. Monday, January 23, 2023:
    Time-lapsed Blogography Day: Twenty Years Ago Today     Twenty years ago today, on  January 23, 2003 , the music theory basketball team at Florida State University faced off against the team from Lucy Ho's Chinese restaurant in the Tallahassee recreational league.   Unlike previous games, where we were awful and had people serious about trying to get better, only 6 people from our team showed up and none of them really cared about basketball. As a result, we were still awful but had a lot more fun than a typical game.   In spite of our latent ability to identify leading tones in four-note chords, we lost tragically to Lucy Ho's, 51-21 (2 of those 21 points came from me). By the time the season ended in February, we had a PERFECT record. ...
15. Wednesday, December 07, 2022:
    Memory Day: Snapshots    Our annual family photo from Christmas 1999, now twenty-three years ago. I was home from my 4th year at Virginia Tech where I was living with Kelley Corbett in East AJ. 
16. Wednesday, November 23, 2022:
    Time-lapsed Blogography Day: Twenty Seven Years Ago Today  Twenty-seven years ago today, on  November 23, 1995 , I was a senior in high school and it was Thanksgiving Day. I spent most of the day trying to get the newly-released  Windows 95  installed on our family computer because Disc 2 had some random corrupted sectors. Staring at the computer screen all day gave me a migraine headache.   When not battling the Windows installer, I was practicing the high range on my trumpet and hitting solid high E-flats. The Es were nonexistent and I had the long-range plan of hitting high G by the end of the school year. Ultimately, I never practiced consistently enough to have a solid high G.   Later in the afternoon, I walked up the street to feed a chihuah...
17. Friday, October 28, 2022:
    Halloween Throwback Day  Throwback to 10 years ago, at the last big Halloween party we had in our house.     I was the Korean Olympic badminton team and Rebecca was the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.   The walls of the basement were coated in black trash bags with black lights and smoke machines roaring throughout. The back room held a long table with chafing dishes full of piping hot meats and there was still a pool table to attract a crowd. One wall was covered in balloons containing either prizes or embarrassing things to do. (In the lower right, Marc is acting out his death scene as someone stung to death by killer bees).   Tonight, we're taking the kids to "Trunk or Treat" at Maia's elementary school. No wild pa...
18. Wednesday, October 19, 2022:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 8 years ago today, on  October 19, 2014 .     We were on a weeklong trip to Seattle and Olympic National Park. On this particular day, we opened with a trip to Pike's Market, the Space Needle, and an obligatory Chihuly exhibit. An afternoon nap later, we drove to Fremont to visit with Mollie and Hillel, Rebecca's college friends whose wedding we also attended in 2010. We hit a Seattle brewery, had dinner in a Turkish restaurant, and then went back to Mollie and Hillel's house to hang out with 3 cats and a dog.   This picture was taken across from the brewery under the Aurora Bridge. I still have the scar from my Outer Banks pool accident the month before, and it thankf...
19. Wednesday, September 28, 2022:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This photo was taken 7 years ago today, on  September 28, 2015 .     This was the halcyon era, pre-kids, when the afternoon might take an unexpected turn towards the couch resulting in a two hour nap. We had three cats at the time, Booty (who weighed as much as two cats), Sydney (who stayed for a year while her owners moved all over), and Amber (unpictured, scared of the rest). Booty and Sydney hated each other but liked sleeping on people, and this was about as close to each other as they would ever get.   I'm reading  Shift , the 2nd book in the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey. It was okay, but the whole of the trilogy was never quite as good as the first book,  Wool . Shown...
20. Wednesday, August 17, 2022:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 6 years ago today, on  August 17, 1026 .     We were on our Colorado trip and thought nothing of waking up at 5 AM to hike high altitude trails throughout the mountains. The reason was twofold: parking lots filled up by 6 and staying too late into early afternoon usually meant getting caught in a thunderstorm.   This day, we went to the Glacier Gorge Trailhead and hiked 10.5 miles to Black Lake. Rebecca looked stylish and wore all of her finest European hiking gear, while I rolled through in  this outfit  which, in 2022, has become my "lawncare around poison ivy" look.   In the afternoon, we went to Rock Cut Brewery where Rebecca bought an all-time...

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