Author Archives: Joel

Joel’s review of The Big Sick (2017)

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Joel

We watched The Big Sick (2017) starring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, and Ray Romano through Amazon Prime. I watched the first 20 minutes of it on the plane ride down to Houston in November, but never got around … Continue reading →

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Scout Sunday 2018 at St. David’s Episcopal Church

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Joel

We recently attended church at St. David’s Episcopal Church in nearby Cranbury, as they like to honor local scouts as part of “Scout Sunday.” Our church doesn’t have any scouts, besides Josh and Lily, so we’ve started visiting St. David’s for … Continue reading →

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Lily at the 18th Annual Acolyte Festival of the Diocese of of NJ – Saturday Feb 10 2018

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Joel

Lily spent a day at the 18th Annual Acolyte Festival of the Diocese of of NJ down in Trenton. She’s only 9 (almost 10), but spent a day with other kids and adults in various workshops. She also had members from … Continue reading →

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Celebrating my Dad’s 76 birthday and wishing life was a little easier

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Joel

My Dad turns 76 this week, so the kids and I took my mother and my father out for dinner at Penang in Lawrenceville (Princeton?) They offer both Malaysian and Thai cuisine, and everything was very good. I have to … Continue reading →

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Sometimes you’ve had a really long day

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Joel
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Snowy day

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Joel

We haven’t experienced much snow this season. One heavy snowfall last month that was a good 5-6 inches. Glad the snow thrower started up. After a recent snowfall, I went to take out the trash, and I thought the house … Continue reading →

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Lily and the Spelling Bee

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Joel

On January 30th, Lily competed in a district spelling bee organized by the Hightstown Juniorettes, her first ever spelling bee. She spent the past three weeks studying words, and we were helping her practice. The day of the spelling bee, … Continue reading →

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Ha! Swapped out old hard drive for new SANDISK SSD and it’s so much faster

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Joel

A few weeks ago, we had a random power outage, and it seemed to have corrupted our kitchen PC. Not sure what happened exactly, but the hard drive came down with some serious drive errors. Even with a repair, it … Continue reading →

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My review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Joel

This may be an unpopular opinion in my house, but I…. really didn’t care for The Greatest Showman (2017) starring Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya. The film is a fantasy version of the story of … Continue reading →

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We bought ourselves a new KitchenAid cooktop

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Joel

First new home improvement for 2018 – a new cooktop. We started looking late last year, but didn’t find very much that we liked. Even then, it’s a bit of a process: Go to a home improvement store and find … Continue reading →

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