The other night after the nor’easter hit, I ended up having to find a bunch of alternate routes home because there were so many trees down. While I drive through some pretty plush areas to get to work, it is unbelievable the huge quantity of obscenely expensive houses there are between mine and my office. I have no idea where all these people work, though with this much money maybe they don’t. I drove by massive house after house, all gated in. This is one of the best ones, though the shitty photo doesn’t do it justice.

Speaking of this storm, Nick LaVecchia took some pretty amazing photos of it.

I just found this image in my computer – what I would look like had I been born black and decided to cut my hair in the shape of a New Era hat.

Last weekend was our long-anitcipated first paintball tournament. We even got serious enough to have team planning meetings and practices beforehand, and went expecting an ass-kicking which is what we received though much of it was self-delivered. Anything that could have gone wrong with equipment in the morning did, to the point that I had to change out everything possible on my gun, and Tara had to use our backup gun after we just dropped money on upgrading hers just for the tournament. Combine that with sandbagging teams that were just there to win free stuff in the rookie division and it made for a horrible day going 0-8 (but at least we weren’t in last place.) It actually got really fun towards the end once we got our shit together, but it was too late. It can only get better next time, and everyone’s antsy to get it going…

Denny, working it left handed

Ramon / Me