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1. 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. 
2. 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 ...
3. 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. 
4. 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...
5. 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. ...
6. 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. 
7. 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...
8. 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...
9. 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...
10. 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...
11. 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...
12. Wednesday, May 18, 2022:
    Memory Day: Landmark Mall  Last Thursday, the demolition of Landmark Mall in Alexandria finally began.     As the nearest mall to my childhood home (1.1 miles by car), I have many memories of what this mall was like, even if I didn't spend much time there. My earliest memories of the mall was in the 80s when it was an outdoor mall with long promenades. The benches down the middle of each path were bordered with pyramid-like slopes (very chic in concrete architecture) which my sister and I would run up and down the slopes as our parents roamed from department store to drug store.   When the mall became enclosed, visits became a triangle of stops: Kenny's shoes for discount footware, Sears for Boy Scout merit badge books, and the...
13. Wednesday, May 04, 2022:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  These pictures are the only surviving pictures from our Quatro de Mayo barbeque nine years ago, on  May 4, 2013 .     My idea of a themed barbeque is to head to Costco the morning of and purchase anything related to that theme, which is why we ended up with a "Beers of Mexico" sampler pack and a pineapple (which we then had to learn how to cut up properly). We also bought a pack of flimsy flat-sided toothpicks that constantly broke off in foods. We eventually just threw them out in favor of upper-crust round toothpicks.   The teeny Smith kids attended and ate nothing but fruit. In the background, you can see the original shed which was finally replaced in June 2015. The fence is two separate...
14. Wednesday, April 06, 2022:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken twenty years ago, on  April 7, 2002 .     For reasons still unknown to me, I would sometimes wake up before the sunrise on the weekend in grad school and take the 37 mile trip south out of Tallahassee to Mashes Sands Beach, a beach facing directly east across the Gulf. (I also remember this beach as Marshes Sands Beach, but Google Maps is trying to convince me that this has always been wrong).   I would take a picture with my 0-megapixel camera, stand around for a minute or two, then run out of things to do at this postage-stamp-sized beach and return home. I almost never saw anyone else out at this hour other than horseshoe crabs and seagulls. 
15. Wednesday, March 09, 2022:
    Time-lapsed Blogography Day: Thirty-Two Years Ago  Thirty-two years ago today, on  March 9, 1990 , I was a 10-year-old in the sixth grade at James K. Polk elementary school. I spent the night at the house of my friend, Mike Buns, who I lost track of somewhere around 9th grade when he transferred schools.      Sleepovers at Mike's house followed a standard pattern. My dad would drop me off in the evening and I would go out to Pizza Hut with his parents and younger sister. There were usually "Book It!" vouchers to redeem for a personal pan pizza and I would always get pepperoni and black olives. After Pizza Hut, we'd head over to Erol's for the night's movie. I don't recall what we watched this particular night, but I do recall seeing  Men at Work&nbs...
16. Wednesday, February 09, 2022:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken almost exactly 10 years ago, on  February 11, 2012 .     Rebecca was in her 2nd semester of Physical Therapy school and studying almost constantly. In this picture, she's simultaneously studying on her ancient laptop which she held onto longer than necessary for nostalgia's sake while looking up recipes in her Betty Crocker cookbook. Also on the table is a first generation Kindle.   You can date this photo by the PT Cruiser parked across the street (which puts this at 2 neighbors ago) and Booty (who interrupts studying much more when alive). 
17. Wednesday, February 02, 2022:
    Time-lapsed Blogography Day   BU at multiple data points      28 years ago today, on  February 2, 1994 , I finished preliminary sketches on my Art class project, "Bear Drinking From Waterfall". (JJ Abrams would later steal this idea for his show, LOST). After school, I went to the Burke branch library to get sources for my English paper on Jack London, "London's House Is Falling Down". I was excited that I already had 13 sources to cite.         27 years ago today, on  February 2, 1995 , we had a half day at school and received our report cards for the 2nd quarter. I received all As and a B+ in physics ( "There is no A. You must all work harder!"  Dr. Patel  exclaimed wit...
18. Wednesday, January 26, 2022:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken a decade ago, on  January 21, 2012 .     Two company names ago and long before the extravagant club and casino settings of the present, my company had their holiday party in a conference hall at the Dulles Hilton.   I actually brought the horse from home (though I didn't ride it to get there), since it was languishing in the basement as a prop from my 2010 Halloween costume, Old Spice Guy. The horse still lives with us (Maia calls it "Spotty") but has finally run out of neigh batteries. 
19. Wednesday, December 22, 2021:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken 21 years ago, on  December 25, 2000 .     I was home from my fifth year of undergrad and my sister was home from being a Charlottesville townie. We both arrived with cats (Kitty for me, Leia and Oliver for her) to stage a battle royale around my parents' house. You can tell that we had not lived in this house full-time for several years now, as the office in the background had mostly become my dad's tuba storage and practice room.   My freshman roommate's stepmom bought me that shirt for Christmas in 1996 and I wore it every Christmas until it disintegrated, somewhere in the early aughts. 
20. Wednesday, August 18, 2021:
    Memory Day: Snapshots  This picture was taken five years ago today, on  August 18, 2016 .     It was a chilly, stormy day in Estes Park, Colorado. Exhausted from a high-altitude 10-mile hike to Glacier Gorge the day before, we were quite happy to loaf around town and sit in this coffee shop (Inkwell and Brew) drinking hot chocolate. The shop had the Colorado hippie vibe down pat, from the mismatched flea market furniture bordered by cluttered corners of ancient magazines to the inspirational messages written on the chalkboard ceiling.   In the afternoon, Rebecca spent an hour in a Dragon Tea Shoppe looking for exotic tea flavors. We then had dinner at Ed's Cantina where we were introduced to the musical genre of &...

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