UPDATE: Contiki is suspending the voting right now. They are having MAJOR Facebook issues, so they’re going back to the drawing board. We’ll try again later! Bridget and I signed up for a Facebook contest, held through Contiki Tours, to hopefully travel to New Zealand. If our bus gets the most “Likes” on Facebook, we [...]

On St. Patrick’s Day this year Andy and I decided to forgo the usual Guinness and Jameson in the name of childhood cancer. St. Baldrick’s is an international event that promotes fund raising for child cancer research. We volunteered at the largest local event, which took place at the Reno Livestock Events Center. About 300 [...]

2004.  A lot of things happened that year:  Bridget, Graduation from UNR, 1880 Simpson, watching a game at Fenway for the first time, and the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years. Bill Simmons, a writer at one point for Jimmy Kimmell and now writes for ESPN, compiled his [...]

“ It’s a Major Award!” “Shucks, I wouldn’t know that. It looks like a lamp.” “ What is a lamp, you nincompoop? It’s a Major Award. I won it!” “Damn, hell, you say won it?” Nothing is quite as memorable as in the Christmas Story where Ralphie’s Father plugs in his leggy award, for the [...]