view from our backyard

what an amazing backyard. the family room walks out to a porch perched at the top of the hill, and it slopes down to our own dock.

unpacking the groceries

we are here and unpacking the groceries. the house is amazing.

ultimate mcgruber

this is how i wanted grubes to ride up to the lakehouse

mcgrubering the trailer

Grubes gets the trailer ready...next stop, hot springs!

caputo kids are ready!

Four shopping carts of groceries, one rental car switch out, a guitar, three coolers later, the kids are ready to go!

rob and winter right after the game, rocking our usa jerseys

usa wins

usa wins in the 91st minute! unfucking believable. the black finn goes nuts. i almost had a heart attack. usa wins group c. fucking sweet.

kickoff!

pre game at the black finn

Just got to the black finn, near dupont circle. Got here an hour early, and it paid off with prime real estate. Almost too many choices on where to sit.

lithium on lithium

Delightful coincidence

five wonderful years

Delicious! Happy five years to the love of my life.

jacob's gotta pay the bills.jpg

He's now doing some kind of commercials...from the tv screen in a cab.

hbs reunion recap

we had a great weekend in boston last week. upon landing, we headed to the north end to get some great pizza with harrington. big up to her and the rock for hosting us all weekend (especially given that the rooms that hbs had blocked off at copley were $280 / night!).

here are the pics.

friday i headed to campus for the start of the reunion activity, catching the 6:47 train forest hills. nice memories as i switched to the red line at downtown crossing and rode it into harvard square. along the way from the t stop walking across the jfk bridge. i snapped a few pics of harvard square icons:

apppropriately weird parade convening. some kind of area 51 thing, i guess

best pizza in the square. lots of late nights finished up here

$8.95 drunken noodle dish treated me well about once a week. fu tan clan and i came here often

where i came to appreciate boddington's english ale

great shot from halfway across the jfk bridge

hbs did a great job of organizing the event. good mix of faculty research, interactive cases, and panel discussions. the only lowlight was the open session with (outgoing) dean light and professor sahlman (who is an amazing prof and taught my favorite all-time class). the first 30 minutes consisted of the two of them telling each other how much they loved dear mother harvard and each other. ridiculous, self-indulgent and narcissistic. perhaps the rest of the session was full of fascinating insights, but i'll never know since i walked out at the 29th minute.

at lunch i managed to convene with my band (king friday), minus our leader, marius, who was in germany and didn't make it across the pond.

king friday + collier (keyboardist from the hbs show orchestra pit, where we all met)

saturday afternoon i got together with my three closest friends from hbs--my study group: slim shady, trevesie, and nobf. nobf and dr. nobf hosted us at their place in brookline.


saturday night the reunion concluded with a gala at the museum of fine art. it was tough to find people, with the party spread across two floors (plus, the hbs alumni in for their 50th reunion were convening at the other end of the museum), but the food was really good, the drinks plentiful, and the art fantastic.

quite an imposing entrance

mesmerizing

the kaiser has the coolest job of anyone in our class: business development for Arsenal football club. his compensation includes season tickets.

i'm showing santi my improvised cuff links: safety pins

atlanta crew

artful dessert

pretty much my favorite commerical

adidas ran this ad before the usa-england game yesterday. it has star wars, soccer, and rock music. the cantina would be an awesome place to watch the cup.

team coco tonight

in the cab from dc. missed my connection in atlanta due to a rainstorm in st. louis, so i was supposed to be here an hour agao. on my way to dar constitution hall, where we are seeing team coco tonight--a very cool bday gift from dr. wintermute.

should be hilarious. the reviews are great. i'm very curious to see who the guest performers will be. in ny, conan had steven colbert and jon colbert, and jammed with vampire weekend.

5 year reunion at the big H

dr. w and i are flying up to boston this evening for a long weekend for my five year reunion at the big h.

time flies.

i started this blog as i was graduating. here are a few blogs posts from then: my band, wedding plans, choosing a job, second semester research project, graduation.

the big h is an alumni machine, and this weekend is hyper organized, with packed scheduled from friday 7:30am to saturday at midnight.

looking forward to the industry panels, faculty research presentations, section dinner (friday night) at the good life, maybe even stopping by the kong. fancy schmancy part saturday night.

will also be good to see some friends--several of dr. w's friends from grad school and internship live there. props to kelly and dan for hosting us.

world cup

the countdown to the world cup is in full steam. while i should be readying the house for the kiddo's arrival, i'm really spending more time following the world cup. usa-england on the 12th should be great. we're having a grill out that afternoon with friends and neighbors.

the us squad is looking good. decent win over turkey, and the 4-2 loss to the czech republish is irrelevant--we were fielding the B-squad.

if we can shut down rooney, we'll be in good shape.

and we can't look past algeria and slovenia. both teams have nothing to lose--the most dangerous kind of team.

italy looks good. brazil will be dangerous of course. spain is the team to beat by consensus. argentina could be the dark horse, with coach maradona leading the team to a return to glory. and maybe france will rise again, too. germany without their captain? forget about it.

my 2010 us jersey is ordered off amazon and on the way.