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April 24th, 2004
Mankato, Minnesota

It sure as heck doesn't seem like 5 years, but here we are at our 'Wooden' anniversary. Who's idea was it to come up with a material for the anniversary gift we're going to give each other? Seriously. What am I supposed to do? Go out to the woodpile and find the nicest log I can?

"Here you go, Laura. Happy wooden anniversary."

Anyway, I broke out the wedding album and scanned up a few of my favorite shots of our wedding. We did the whole camera on each table thing, too...but man. Like 95% of the pictures were horrible. I guess heavy drinking and photography just don't mix.

Here I am up at the altar with my beautiful bride. You can't see it here, but later when the priest started yammering on about raising our kids in the Catholic faith, etc, etc... I had my fingers crossed. Whatever, dude. I just want to marry this woman, not devote my life to your crazy fairy tales.

Here we see the large groom attack the little bride like he hasn't been fed in roughly 4 days. I don't know what it is, but I feel like I'm looking at Tony Soprano whenever I see pictures of me in this tuxedo. "You may kiss the bride." Don't mind if I do, padre.

The groomsmen and ushers in full effect. My brother is the one with the giant mouth, doing the Hong Kong action movie pose. I just wanted to see how high up I could get my legs. Guess I'm lucky I didn't fall and break my dumb head open.

This was shot at the place where we had our reception in Dirty ol' Mankato. It sort of looks like we're in an abandoned shopping mall, but this picture, I think turned out really cool. The photographers had some good ideas and some others that weren't so great. Bless their f-stopping little hearts.

Beautiful ol' Laura. Not a day goes by where I'm not thankful to be married to this woman.

Happy Anniversary!

(enjoy your wood)

Hello friends of blog-reading!

Sometimes an idea strikes you and you have no choice but to pull off the side of the road, hop out of the car and shout to the heavens:

"BY JOVE! THAT IS BRILLIANT!"

Sometimes the ideas aren't that great and you kind of shrug a little bit and say 'eh' while you make a left hand turn into the parking lot of the local coffee barn for a steaming cup of pulverized bean juice. You can decide which category the following fits in.

A blogging pal (it's Dan over at This Man's World) and I are in the formative stages of dedicating an ENTIRE week to...(wait for it)

OUR NERDERYS!!!

It's going to be double deluxe awesome. We'll show you scenes from our respective nerd lairs. You'll see the places where we keep our you're-too-old-for-that action figures! You'll see trinkets that would've been best left at Target (or any other value superstore), and all kinds of stuff. Heck, there might be videos! There might be pictures! There might be carelessly crafted haikus about my autographed Selma Hayek picture.

Who would want to miss that???

Wow, TKT. I've got a nerdery/study/office/shack in the back where I dry out animal skins that I would like to share with the blogging world, too. Can I get in?

My answer: Heck, yes friend. You can get in on the ground floor.

While it's still in the formative stages, I'm planning on linking back and forth to other nerderys/offices/etc. so that we can all see where the magic happens.

But TKT, I just have a cubicle. Also, I like to eat paste.

That's okay, fella/fellete! Any nerdery will do. Any. Nerdery. Will. Do.

Stay tuned, party people. We're about to blow the lid offa this one.

Owwwwwwwwwww!!!!

Break out your walking shoes NYC, it is time for the biggest (and in my opinion) best party of the year, Museum Mile. Head up to 5th avenue and 82nd street for free admission to nine museums, including the Metropolitian Museum of Art. In honor of this summer ritual we have excerpted a piece about the MET from Grove Art Online, written by Eric Myles Zafran. Get some history on this NYC landmark before you hit the jam-packed subways.

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