Archive for June, 2009
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
I had a really nice lunch with my sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and my cousin Tuesday at a great sushi shop in Wilmington called Genki Sushi. It's my new favorite Japanese restaurant in the whole state. It's sort of like a cross between a sushi bar and an izakaya (which is ...
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
I made it safely to Wrightsville Beach, NC, where we have a big family get-together every year. It involves eating way too much food and a lot of staring at the ocean. There's also a lot of setback involved.
Setback is a card game that apparently only the people in my ...
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Tonight I completed a dangerous and important task. I got cannoli for the big family get-together in Wrightsville Beach, NC. Since I'm in Baltimore, I might as well find an Italian bakery and give it a shot, right?
I decided to try to find one of the branches of Vaccaro's Italian ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
I've got some extra time to kill, since I'm skipping some of the Organized Fun Events at the conference, and instead just being a tourist here in Baltimore. I've only ever spent the night in Baltimore once, about 8-9 years ago, so I want to take the chance to see ...
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
So, after a somewhat uncomfortable drive on I-95, I made it to Baltimore for the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference.
Along the way, my TomTom GPS decided that no, the Beltway isn't a perfectly good way of going around Washington D.C. Instead, it kept insisting that I wanted to get off ...
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