I’m planning to host another Live Blog / Live Chat, my first since Selection Sunday (and first since the new blog launched), this Saturday at 1:30 PM MDT — kickoff time for USC and Notre Dame football — and I did a bit of poking around this weekend, exploring live-chat alternatives to Chatroll. I found a nifty option called SavorChat,… Read more »
Continuing on the theme of photos from my parents’ visit to Denver (which has been great fun!), here are some from our lunch date Tuesday at Katie Mullen’s, a neat Irish restaurant and pub downtown that opened in February. I love this shot of my Dad, wearing his classic skeptical-Joe-Loy face: Here’s my Mom taking a picture of him, with… Read more »
Fans leave Coors Field last night after the Dodgers’ 6-1 win over the Rockies ended Colorado’s four-game winning streak: I took the photo from Fadó Irish Pub, where I was watching Brian Clancy (here’s a photo) with my Mom, my Dad, Kristy and her boyfriend, and maybe a hundred of our closest Rockies-fan friends, who dropped in on their way… Read more »
I just got home — a little later than I’d planned — from Coors Field, after watching, in person, “one of the strangest games ever in Denver,” a 14-inning affair that ended in the first walkoff grand slam in Rockies history (and the first grand slam I’ve ever personally witnessed, never mind a 14th-inning walkoff slam), with my Dad. Pretty… Read more »
At one point yesterday, for a minute or two, the top of the countdown box in my blog’s sidebar at right briefly looked like this: I quickly fixed it, and was amused when I realized what the problem was. I had accidentally entered the date of Monday’s Rockies-Giants game at Coors Field — which my Dad and I have tickets… Read more »
If the FlightAware tracker is to be believed, my parents’ flight from Hartford to Chicago appears to have done some bizarre loop-de-loops over Indiana, not far from South Band. I wonder what that’s all about? Some sort of vortex caused by Northern Indiana becoming the center of the political universe? Evasive maneuvers to avoid being impacted by the ongoing Rust… Read more »
Alan Sullivan, in a post about Hurricane Bill titled “Sideswipe“: “Bill is a sideswiper.” My brain, involuntarily: “Swiper, no swiping! Swiper, no swiping!” This is what having a 19-month-old will do to you..
Over the weekend, we made a pilgrimage to American Furniture Warehouse to check out the sectional couches they had on sale. We promptly fell in love with a beautiful sectional at a great price, and so, using a portion of our first-time homebuyers stimulus check, we bought it. Today, it was delivered. And it is awesome. Since our purchase of… Read more »
A quick baby story from this morning that I just have to share. I was sitting on the couch with Loyette in my lap, reading her a story, while Becky was holding a hungry Loyacita. (For the uninitiated, “Loyette” and “Loyacita” are the “blog nicknames” of my 19-month-old daughter and my 4-week-old daughter, respectively.) Becky wanted to grab breakfast before… Read more »
The Santa Barbarians were in town this weekend — i.e., Loyette and Loyacita’s uncle, aunt and 3 1/2-year-old cousin — and we took the opportunity to go on a bunch of adventures, including a hike in Boulder on Saturday. We missed the trail we originally intended to take, and ended up hiking an invented loop trail combining portions of the… Read more »