Milestones

Two interesting things to mark. First, I have now been in Boston for one year. It doesn’t feel like that long… but in some ways it feels like I’ve been here for longer than that. The second is that I finished updating my reading list. Only now it’s the “Reading List – 2007” since I’ll have to start a new one for the current year. And yes, I’m already behind on updating the list for 2008. =P

Happy Birthday, Blake

There hasn’t been much to report lately. I’ve mostly been busy with work and other things, and unfortunately the ol’ blog has been a bit neglected. But I’m here now to make up for that.

The one big, exciting thing that happened in the past week was Blake’s birthday. The little fella turned five on Jan 15th. And he got what every tiger wants… a Barrel of Monkeys!

He looked like he was having fun. = ]

Truth is, I don’t actually know precisely when Blake’s birthday is. It was five years ago that I made a donation to the World Wildlife Fund to adopt a tiger. I figured they would just send me a picture of a tiger or something, but a few weeks later, a big fat envelope showed up in the mail, and there was Blake. His adoption papers didn’t include a birthdate, so I’m just kind of estimating that he must have been born about 3 weeks before he ended up with me. That’s close enough for Blake and I.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go rescue Blake from his monkeys…