After about 1000 miles in the Pilot, traveling practically to the US border with Canada, Karen, Sasha (on her first vacation) and I are back home in Brooklyn. It was such a great, relaxing week off. So great that I’m finding it hard getting back into the swing of things right away. I guess that’s [...]

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TOAD: August 4th, 2007: A few weekends ago, Gabe invited us to go see his band, Monuments, perform at an event called The Echo Sessions. The setup was as follows: it takes place in a loft-like studio space in Red Hook where the band performs in the main room. The audio is being recorded and [...]

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TOAD: August 3rd, 2007: Karen and I met up with some members of the Human Hair Happy Hour at The Gate to welcome Matt back from his long vacation. Karen and I had boldly gone for a post-work run in sweltering temperatures and what better way to celebrate that than with some frosty beers in [...]

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TOAD: July 31st, 2007: Thanks to Mo organizing an ITP Past and Present group outing to Yankee Stadium, Karen and I were able to enjoy our first game of the year in person. For those who don’t remember, this was one of the games where A-Rod was stuck on 499 home runs so every time [...]

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TOAD: July 30th, 2007: After 2+ years as a member of the NYSC, I’ve now moved on to Crunch as they have a gym half a block from our new apartment and if I’ve learned anything it’s that the closer proximity = more time at the gym. The NYSC was a great gym and I’ve [...]

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TOAD: July 27th, 2007: Last Friday Karen and I headed up to the Upper West Side for my company’s summer picnic at our founder/CEO’s abode. I was excited for Karen to get a chance to meet a bunch of the people I work with so she could see how nice they are as well as [...]

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Last weekend we had great weather and Karen and I took our first walk from Park Slope back over to Cobble Hill by way of Union street. We were headed to meet people at the Gowanus Yacht Club to welcome Katie back from her trip to Bolivia (her photos can be found here) and to [...]

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There are more photos on the way but here are a few we took the night before we moved in. The next time you see it, the colors will be different and all of our stuff will be there. Unfortunately there are no photos of the backyard here. Those will be in the next set [...]

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Hi! You may have wondered where we went this past month considering we haven’t posted almost at all except for a few photos here and there, but we didn’t go anywhere. We’ve been busy in Brooklyn for the last several weeks and didn’t realize how shamefully we were ignoring the blog until Alex’s Mom asked [...]

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TOAD: July 11th, 2007: This little dish is something I put together this summer called Hippy Surprise.
0% Fat Greek Yogurt
diced strawberries and/or peaches
granola (either Bear Naked or Fresh Direct’s fresh granola work great)
a squizzle of honey
Makes for a fantastic breakfast.
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