Halloween 2007

Halloween has come and gone, and Nicholas had a great time. He went trick-or-treating with his friend Patrick for the first half of the evening, then pressed on with me for a few more houses. He has quite a haul for the night.

He picked up a "trick-or-treat for UNICEF" box at preschool and collected some change for UNICEF, too. He liked that part as well. His costume this year was a "Go-Kart Racer" :-)

Storyland 2007

In early July, we made our annual trip to Storyland. Everyone had a fantastic time, especially Nicholas. We went up there with a couple of other families we know (Nicholas is friends with their kids). We combined this trip with our annual trek to Keepsake Quilting - Gail likes to go to their big annual sale. As she said, "something for everyone!" ;-)

In addition to Storyland, we went for a one hour ride on the Conway Scenic Railroad (Nicholas is very into trains at this point).

I've included a couple of pics (below) from the trip (the traditional shot of us in front of Humpty Dumpty and Gail and Nicholas at Keepsake). There are more shots from the trip if you're interested.

Everything is Miscellaneous

Recently, I was reading Geoff Arnold's blog (I used to work with him at Sun), and he had a post about the author David Weinberger. David has a new book out, "Everything is Miscellaneous." It sounds like a great book (I'm going to order it). There is a web site to go along with the book - David gave a fascinating talk at Google, which the nice folks at Google taped and put on the web. I've embedded it below - check it out.

The Bike Trailer

I bought a bike trailer this past weekend. It connects up to my bike and lets Nicholas ride behind me. It's quite fun, and Nicholas loves it. We've only been out for one ride (besides a test run around the block). We went along the Minuteman Bike Path, riding from Arlington to the Lexington town line and back.

I can see getting a lot of miles from this thing :-)

Nicholas helps out

Nicholas helped me fix and stain the deck recently. We've had some boards rotting out for some time, and I used it as an excuse to get myself a reciprocating saw :-). We replaced several boards and steps, then re-stained the deck.

Nicholas helped out, and got a real kick out of it. I've put up some pictures of the fun. Click on the picture below for more photos.

Fixing the deck

Neat Nerd Score Test

I was reading "The Tidal Blog" today and saw a neat nerds score thingy. Being the nerd I am, I had to take it :-) I have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed I didn't score higher ;-)