Posts Tagged ‘Scottish’

Pleasant Surprise

This evening was the annual Burns Sup­per hosted by H.A.G.G.I.S. We try to attend every year as it’s a fun evening of food, friends and danc­ing. And like every year, I went else­where for my meal, but came back for dessert and danc­ing. I have tried hag­gis once and that was an expe­ri­ence that needs no repetition. […]

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Burns Supper

Ariesna and I just got back from our local Burns Sup­per. For those of you not entirely up on your Scot­tish cul­ture, this meal is held in honor of Robert Burns. To quote the BBC: The Burns Sup­per is an insti­tu­tion of Scot­tish life, a night to cel­e­brate the life and genius of the national […]

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Ta-da!

Ladies of the Inter­net, you missed your chance! By the time you’re read­ing this, my fiance Ariesna and I will have com­pleted exchang­ing our wed­ding vows and will be shov­ing cake into each other’s faces1. I’ve known that this day was com­ing up for some time, but it hadn’t really sunk in what was happening […]

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Expensive Day

I got my pho­tos back from the film pro­cess­ing lab today and most of them turned out pretty good. Unfor­tu­nately, even with my tele­photo lens I was too far away for the eagle pic­tures to turn out really well. You can sort of make out the eagle in a few of the shots, but not […]

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USA PATRIOT Act is crap!

Before this hor­rid bit of leg­is­la­tion got passed; I was against it because I knew it was only a mat­ter of time until the gov­ern­ment was going to abuse it. Then like many peo­ple, I got dis­tracted by my own life and for­got about it for a while because noth­ing was hap­pen­ing with it that […]

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