busy, busy...

Last weekend and early in the week has been pretty busy. Kristen's birthday was last weekend. So, Saturday night we had her favorite meal at her parent's house. Yummy!

Sunday morning it was off to NYC for a surprise play, or at least I thought it was a surprise... my Mom spilled the beans! We saw Gypsy. Which was OK, definetely not one of my favorites. We stayed at my parents time share. It is really cool waking up in NYC and strolling around while people are heading to work. We drove around nyc for fun, yeah I got back into the city driving grove pretty quickly. I guess it is kind of like riding a bike... (I wonder what that's like?)

I got home, hooked up the large format printer, cranked out a couple of maps for class, showered (apparently, city driving makes me sweat), and heading to campus to get my parking pass. I was only a little late to class.

Tuesday morning, I jumped out of bed and ran the grocery store to get some food for Krissy's birthday breakfast. Taylor Ham, egg and cheese on an everything bagel. (Why didn't I buy bagels while we were in the bagel capital of the world???) After breakfast I headed down to the shop to fill in for Rick. He was vacationing.

Man do I miss working in the shop. I spent most of the day laughing! That Gavigan is one funny dude! YO GABBA GABBA! We got El Jefe for lunch. Boy was that some good mexican food! Anyone notice how much Gava turns red and sweats after he eats spicy food? Had me laughing! I told him he should get a sweatband for the next time he tackles "the pot" at el jefe

After a great day in DE I even made it to class on time without much traffic! What a nice way to spend a vacation day!

School's back...

I'm taking two classes this semester... ugh. I have anticipated so much time is going to be taken up with school, work and family, that for the first time since '97ish, I am not going to race cross. I think I had raced at least one cross race since '97, crap that is a 10 year streak... Oh well.

I've been pretty busy trying to get stuff done before school starts, but not much has actually gotten done.

I have a fan going in the storage room to try and blow the smoke back to the neighbor. I'm planning on installing an exhaust fan and sealing up the louvered door to try and pressurize the room. Hopefully keeping the smoke out.

Oh yeah, I got a new game for ps2. Over vacation my niece was kind enough to bring her wii. We played a lot of Guitar Hero. So, after much debate I purchased my own for the ps2! Lots of fun!

I have a new nephew! Welcome Henry David! (I think his middle name is after me, not that Thoreau guy.)


He also goes by "Hank the Tank" because he is going to be a fullback and run people over! Go HANK!

Jacob played some soccer this summer and he had a great time!



Sophie enjoyed the beach...



...not sure if she really enjoyed eating sand though?