Ice sculpture

Big doings tonight. Copley square getting ready for an evening concert to celebrate the new year.

3d printing

A 3D printing store just opened on fashionable Newbury street. They had several set up making all sorts of cheesy stuff.

Storm arriving from the west

Happy Holidays

All is calm, all is bright

Happy Birthday

There is a formula used by the sports community to determine your theoretical maximum heart rate.

Max HeartRate = 220 - age

You can use this number to set zones of exercise and apparently you should spend a certain amount of time in each zone. Like most dogma, I thought it was complete crap. Having said that I will take the formula to determine my age. I hit a maximum heart rate of 181 while doing some workouts on my new trainer today. Lets see here, working backwards, I must 39!
Thanks to Cindy for keeping me so young.

3d printing Christmas toys

In defense of canned beer

Now that we must carry most of our beer from the beer store to Nemo, the weight of an item matters.
Cans are lighter than bottles.
This is an outstanding beer from NC.

Week in review

Upscale hot dog

Hey if you can transform polenta or grits into upscale foodie plates , why not a ball park favorite.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

And a bigger chair...

Ride to the beach

When you live in the city it easy to forget that Boston is actually a coastal town. Took a bike ride (20 min) to Fort independence on castle island. White sandy beaches.
Logan airport just across the water, and for those that have joined us at the Harpoon brewery, you will see that its close as well.
Brrr it was cold. 

It looked a bit different back then.

Thanksgiving

A non-traditional meal this year. But if turkey is so great, why do we only have it once a year?

We had some healthy things. Roasted fall veggies.

Bourbon mashed Sweet potatoes. 

Cranberry cake.

Onion pie.

Sriracha fried chicken

Pecan Pie.

A gulp of cold milk to put out the heat of the Sriracha peppers.

Somebody ate too much

The day after portion control

Blasphemy

Thanksgiving menu

I have one word for you. FriedChicken!

Curve buster

96 out of 100, that's an A+ where I come from..

Lips are sealed

What is a better burger than one topped with three fried oysters. We call that the empty set. I would show you a picture but I don't want to give away our special restaurant.

Dual dogs

Kobe beef hotdogs with all the fixings. You can pay more, but you won't find better than these from Harvard garden.

Pastry chef (Cindy)

Bam

Pho

A broth more mystical and personal than grandmas red sauce, random vegies (always noodles, basil, lime and hot peppers) best slurped to compliment the chef.

Yum?

Never gets old

Second read of a great book

Learn Forever, Die Tomorrow

Early on I came to believe that you should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow. What does this mean? In the simplest way, I would explain it like this.
Always be learning, acquiring knowledge, and seeking wisdom with a sense that you are immortal and that you will need much knowledge and wisdom for that long journey ahead. Know that when you are through learning, you are through.
But I want to live that life as if I were going to die tomorrow: with relish, immediacy, and the right priorities. I also will not waste even a minute.

EXCERPT FROM

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court John Wooden Category: Biographies & Memoirs 32 Ratings

Wooden, John. "Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court." McGraw-Hill, 1997. iBooks.
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Walk

Coach jack said we should save our knees and not run today so we walked the route.

Same house new structure

Looks like they are saving the exterior while putting up beams inside

Austerity phone booth

Bring your own phone

New flag

World champion flag adorns our weather beacon.

Evidence

The winners get to write the history books. Henceforth it will known that George Washington had a beard and was a Sox fan!

Bearded duck boats

Thanks to Boston globe for the picture

Talent