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I want one of these. It's a proton collider. Not sure why I want it, but isn't this picture cool? Photo courtesy of www.newyorktimes.com. Here's the freaky article, if you want to read it. Just imagine all the dumb office dares you could do with it.

My friend Chris from UMass had a cool idea. He wrote a blog post and Google-mapped all the places he's ever lived. Unfortunately he tagged me to do the same! So here goes. If you click on the links to see the maps, just use the back button to get back to the post. They used to pop up in new windows but I don't see that I can select that feature anymore. Oh well. From birth until age 18: Shore Drive, Pittsfield, MA What kid doesn't wanna grow up near the lake? The college years +1 extra year living in Amherst 1986-87 Brown dormitory, UMass with my friend Pam from high school 1987-1989 Dickenson dormitory, UMass also with Pam. That's where I met Chris who tagged me to do this post! Summer of 1988- Store Street, London England I worked at a pub that summer, just outside of Charing Cross Station. this is the year I met my BMF Dave, who was here for a few days visiting a few weeks ago. 89-90 Cliffside Apartments with my friends Chris, Jayne, and Jen. Good time...

From www.survivinggrady.com: "Details are still a bit sketchy but the bottom line is this: the Red Sox players took a stand to protect their "extended family" of coaches and trainers. It appears there was a dispute on whether or not coaches and members of the training staff would be paid the same $40,000 stipend for the trip to Japan that the players will receive. Terry Francona and the players believed that would be the case, but news contradicting that was reported yesterday. When word filtered down to the Red Sox players, they unanimously voted to boycott today's spring training game as well as the entire Japan trip if the dispute wasn't resolved. Within and hour, their demands were evidently met. No doubt there are spin doctors working their magic to come up with a plausible story about the whole thing being a simple misunderstanding. Damage control. Whatever happens, it won't take away from what the Red Sox did as a team today to show their support to th...

I really got into the new John Adams series on HBO. It started Sunday. If you have HBO be sure to catch it or record the showings. Living in Boston, it's doubly cool for me, but it's also very well done.

There are little green things poking up out of the ground where I planted bulbs last fall!

Me, that is. Can't say anything nice so I won't say anything at all. Except, that I'm SO HAPPY our vacation is in 2.5 weeks. Big yay to that! Last full-week vacation: July 2007. That's really bad for me. Oh yeah, and I was really happy to have my English friend Dave here for a short visit. Always great to have Dave around. We've been friends half my life now. Just about 20 years since he came into that London pub I was working at next to the train station for a quick light-and-lager. I don't even remember when he gave those up for straight pints outta the tap. Wow. OK, I guess I DO have nice things to say. More, some other time. ;-)

So, for that magnificent vacation that we have planned to Peru and Ecuador, we had to get some immunizations. Safety first! We went to the travel clinic at the best hospital I've ever walked into, Mt Auburn in Cambridge, MA, where they promptly shot us up with Yellow Fever vaccine, an MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) shot - evidently they're not so confident in the ones we got in the early 70's, Hepatitis A, and tetanus/diphtheria boosters. Jeepers. So, I didn't eat before we went and almost passed out. Not from the pain or even getting shot up. This lady knew what to do with a needle, I barely felt a thing. I just got really dizzy. I recovered from that just fine with a little food. Went to work. Where I promptly began to suffer really bad hip pain, back pain, and stiffness of the joints. I kinda thought I might feel under the weather, but I wasn't expecting that. I also wasn't planning to work until 7:10, but I did. We got about 35 pages of info when ...

Two wild turkeys strolling along route 128 in Bedford.