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Jefferson Memorial dusk

She said YES! We’re engaged!

Yeah yeah, it took me 6 years to do it, but it’s done! I asked Lindsey to marry me!  I convinced her to get out of the apartment Friday evening after our 4-mile training run and visit the Jefferson Memorial.  To us, that memorial is magical. Every time we go there, we usually end up [...]

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Ellen’s 50th Birthday

For many years, I kept hearing about how Ellen was going to get a limo for her birthday, and it happened!  It was a party I couldn’t miss and flew back home just for the weekend to be there with her and the family.  Ellen, Erin, Ashley, and the McDermott family all hopped in the [...]

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Lindsey’s parents visit DC!

It’s been a couple months since we’ve seen any of our family, and this weekend Lindsey’s parents, Rocky and Vicki, drove in to see us. They arrived Friday evening, and we kicked off the weekend with a great dinner at Gordon Biersch.

We caught up with life and family and shared some samples from the in-restaurant [...]

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It’s been a month in DC!

It’s been a month in DC!

I sit here eating jellybeans, which are free courtesy of the General Manager’s assistant Dorea. She keeps a small dispenser of them nearby.

See those last three jellybeans at the bottom? The red, orange and green ones? Yep. That’s the last handful of sweets I’m going to eat until I weigh 190. Crazy [...]

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