Small Town Daddy

2009-10-17T23:00:00.000-04:00

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Happy Halloween

2009-10-17T22:49:00.002-04:00

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2009-06-08T07:33:00.000-04:00

Richard Gere at Green Chimneys

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

2009-01-03T19:15:00.002-05:00

This is a very funny one episode show by Joss Wheden (aka Buffy the Vampire, Angel, Firefly etc). Starring Douggy Hauser as Dr Horribile. Anyway its a good watch and also available on itunes and at www.drhorrible.com. Enjoy.

Small Town Hockey

2008-12-30T22:44:00.006-05:00

Another fun Mad Hatters game. If you don't know who they are. They are the 3rd generation of the minor minor hockey team in Danbury CT. The games are always fun to watch and not necessarily for the hockey. When my 9 year old daugher laughs and yells "dog pile" you know we are having good time. Who needs boys :)

Christmas 2008

2008-12-28T21:55:00.001-05:00

Christmas this year was great, despite the economy and having to cut back a bit. Santa was good to all my girls as well as myself. Joanna and her daddy both got shiny new cameras. Joanna has become quite a photographer like her grampa, she also likes to be in the pictures just as much (also like her grampa). Small Town Mommy seemed very surprised to get her soda stream. She also got a cool GPS and a pasta maker for all to enjoy. Libby was very happy to get her diamond pengiun necklace and china doll. All that and some cool games for the Wii made Santa a very popular guy.
I think the best part though was getting together with everyone Christmas day. Anne as always is a wonderfull cook and had lots of tasty treats for all. Dessert is also fun with 3 different flavors of cheesecake to go around. A very nice holiday to end what was just an ok type of year.
I hope you all had a wonderfull holiday as well.
Happy Holidays

Small Town Daddy

Snow Days

2008-12-21T21:13:00.002-05:00

As many of you know we had a good size storm this past weekend. It was the first real snow of the season. So our weekend was filled with shoveling, sled riding and hot chocolate. I discovered even though the snow was up to Hamlet's err boys he enjoyed it very much. The girls also got crafty and made a gingerbread house. I discovered that a gingerbread house is the one thing that duck tape cannot fix. This weekend also gave Anne and I an opportunity to finish up our holiday shopping. :)
The season is upon us! Enjoy!

Straight No Chaser - 12 Days

2008-12-15T19:24:00.002-05:00

Thanksgiving 2008

2008-11-28T18:18:00.003-05:00

Thanksgiving day at my sisters in NYC. Good food, good times as always...

2008-11-17T13:24:00.002-05:00

Maria Shriver is speaking to us at Max

2008-11-17T12:16:00.001-05:00

SmallTown Daddy is attanding the AdobeMax conference in San Fransisco.

Happy Halloween

2008-10-31T22:19:00.002-04:00

Today was another eventful Halloween. It started with a busy morning at work. I went in early to finish up some projects before the Halloween festivities began. Our company has their 3rd quarter meeting and much to my surprise we are doing pretty well despite the bad economy. By noon I wrapped up my projects and headed for the elementary school. Every year practically the whole town shows up for the big Halloween parade. This year it was Joanna's first parade and sadly Libby's last. The kids had a good time marching in their costumes. Libby was a Ninja (that's my girl!) and Joanna was a very pretty fairy princess. Afterward there were class parties where Anne and I split the time in each of the kids classrooms. When school let out the kids and I headed back to my office where they got to trick or treat around the building. We have a pretty good sized office and girls got tons and tons of candy (more then we will ever need). After a long afternoon of trick or treating, we went home, ate dinner and headed back out for more. We live in the woods and the houses are not that close together so it takes a lot of walking just to cover the eight houses on our street. The girls were finally tired out as was I so went back home and watched a movie and handed out candy to the few trick or treaters came to our door (again we live in the woods). So now its 10 pm the girls are fast asleep and I uploading photos, writing this blog and stuffing my face with Nestle crunch bars. All in all a nice Halloween.

Wassup 2008

2008-10-27T13:32:00.001-04:00

This video says it all!

Happy Halloween

2008-10-26T18:27:00.002-04:00

Another halloween and another party at our friends. Always a good time even on the dark and stormy night.

Down go the Trees

2008-10-21T15:55:00.004-04:00

The past week my neighbors got together and a helped me remove a lot of trees in my front yard.
We live in the woods and my yard get very little sunlight. I have been wanting to get them removed for years but it was very expensive to do it.

A few weeks ago at the bus stop (a place where the us dads congregate in the morning while the kids go to school) My neighbor asked me if I would like him to bring his excavator over and take down some trees. Yes, he owns an excavator and No, he is not in construction. He was using it to put in a a pool for himself. Before I could even respond, my other two neighbors looking for any excuse to use a chainsaw jumped on the bandwagon.

So on Saturday afternoon they knocked down about 10 trees in the front yard. It would have been more but due to where the septic tank was and the size of one the trees we had to stop. It was pretty amazing and a little scary watching this thing push down these huge trees.

This is once again another reason why I like to live here. When I was growing up I lived in a neighborhood where the neighbors really didn't socialize much. Most of my neighbors were much older then my parents and kind of crabby.

Our neighborhood now is far from that place I grew up. Here, we help each other out with the kids, crazy projects, computers what ever. Its a good place to be!

Long Weekend in October

2008-10-16T16:03:00.008-04:00

Anne (www.smmalltownmommy.com) had a blogging conference outside of Boston last weekend so me and the kids decided to tag along. While Anne was at her conference the girls and I went to the mall and of course the hotel pool. Afterward we visited one of my old roommates from back in the day, who now is married with 2.5 kids of his own. It was great seeing them and catching up. Sunday we had lunch at Legal Seafood which is one of my favorite places to eat in the Beantown area. In the afternoon we headed to Sturbridge Village where they were having a scarecrow contest. It was a beautiful fall weekend as you can see from the slide show above. It's great to get away with the family.

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2008-10-11T16:01:00.000-04:00

Libby the ninja

Week one without the Wii.

2008-10-05T20:17:00.005-04:00

Its been over a week since our Nintendo Wii had to be sent out for repair. Fall is here so we actually ventured outside. It was such a strange sensation so real and life like. No remote was needed either. The girls actually love playing. Even without the Wii fit little Joanna is growing and getting stronger by the minute as shown. Game play was good and overall I highly recommend it.

Happy Aniversary

2008-09-28T20:02:00.005-04:00

Eleven years ago today, I married my soul mate. We had met at a trade show in Washington DC. Our first date was to see the Gin Blossoms at Great Adventure. Our first kiss was in a park in Westchester along the Hudson river. The first thing she cooked for me was linguine with clams sauce at her parents condo. The first time I told her I loved her was on Christmas eve.
See honey I may not remember to replace the toilet paper but I remember the important stuff.

Since then we had 2 houses, 6 cars, 5 cats( 2 are still with us) a dog, a hamster and most of all 2 wonderful little girls.

On her blog www.smalltownmommy.com she listed the top ten reasons why I was her perfect mate. I think its only fitting I do the same.
They are in no particular order...

10. She is not into fancy jewelry or stuff like that. For our anniversary I got her a printer-copy-fax machine. If I had given that to any other woman I would be sleeping on the couch (Nothing says I love you like a printer-copier-fax machine). But my wife saw it for what it was, something she needed for new venture and that I was behind her all the way with it.

9. She works hard all day and still finds time to make us dinner, do laundry and keep the house running.

8. She cleans the cat box. Nothing more to say about that

7. She is a wonderful mother. My girls are going to grow up beautiful, smart and successful, and that's mostly due to her.

6. We like the same TV, Movies and entertainment. (Vampire shows, teenage dramas, and even Sci fi) We are also B52s groupies

5 . She let me take her out of the big city life to live in this small town out in the country.

4. She is a geek jut like me and in some cases even more!

3. Gadgets! Although she likes different kinds. I like all kind of electronics. She likes all kinds of kitchen things. She is also addicted to sweeping products.

2. She is my conscience. If it wasn't for her I would be up to my eyeballs in debt, buying every toy known to man. She keeps me on track, yet still lets me have my fun.

1. We can read each others mind. There are so many times I am am thinking or about to say something and she beats me to the punch.

So here we are 11 years later after saying our "I do's" Its been a great ride and I look forward to many many more years to come.

Happy
Anniversary sweatheart.

I love you.

2008-09-27T11:16:00.001-04:00

Libbys new glasses

2008-09-26T13:59:00.000-04:00

final days at shea

David Letterman Mocks McCain Cancellation Replaces Him With Olbermann

2008-09-26T13:52:00.001-04:00

Never tick off Letterman!!!

Why am I here...

2008-09-16T14:43:00.000-04:00

A few months ago my wife started a blog called Small Town Mommy. Its a very interesting blog about our life in a small town, our girls, our cats and mostly her view in general on everything from laundry to politics.
Now I have to say about 99% of the time I agree with my wife. I will be the first to admit she is smarter then me in many ways, which is one of the reasons why I married her. She is a wonderfull wife and an awesome mother. She has even been "out geeking" me lately, which is no easy feat. Around here I am known as our neighborhood tech support guy, but I will elaborate more on that in another post.
So why I am here you ask. I guess it was when I read her last post. It was three paragraphs of her complaining on how she is the only one in the world who changes the toiler paper roll and how frustrated she was. My first thought was "Hey, I change the toilet paper too!" followed by a feeling helpless. There she is telling the world about my laziness and me being unable to defend myself. So here I am to say, I do change the toilet paper roll from time to time, maybe not as often as she does AND I also use it to wipe my 5 year old Joanna's butt. You will need to read my wifes's post to understand what I mean by that.
Why should my wife have all the say and all the fun? I may not write as well as she does (as you probally already noticed) but I do have perspective on things as well. I have things to say and stories to tell. It is cheaper then therapy!

Small Town Daddy is born.