In honor of our -1 month wedding anniversary today, I’ve been reflecting on some of the major milestones in our relationship (see below). Arguably, the most significant date on this…
There's a running joke in my fiancé's family that having boys is impossible - they've gone 16 tries without one. It's clear there's something weird going on with the Metternichs…
Every time I fly (which over the last three years has been nearly twice a week), I get tired. Not debilitatingly tired but enough that I just feel 'off' and less…
I have a lot of pride in my Wisconsin roots - especially when it comes to beer. Although, the quality of WI beer (and beer drinkers) is hard to rival,…
Weddings got real this year. Real real. So I plotted out my wedding attendance (to the best of my memory). Check out that exponential growth (directly proportional to the amount…
During the month of October, a lot of people (9,786 in Oct 2010) read my blog because of my blog post about possible Halloween costumes. Throughout the rest of the year,…
Every year I hear people say “the upsets this year destroyed my bracket.” While some years this is probably valid, most years these people (who are probably just trying to…
US Olympic Team - Average Age by Year Year Men Women All 1896 Summer 23 23 1900 Summer 23 23 1904 Summer 25 25 1908 Summer…
I've written other posts on the difficulties of conveying tone over the internet and I've long viewed the written exclamation point as useless, unless preceeded by an expletive. However, much…
For those of you who don't know, while working on my master's degree I've worked in the RFID Lab on campus. Last week at one of our workgroup meetings, another…