I've realized that I never posted an update after last week's game. There was a reason for that, but I'll get to that in a little bit.
First of all, Sarah left as planned on Friday the 19th, then returned on the 21st for a few more days. Her plans for Boston had fallen through and we told her we'd love to see her again for a few days. Unfortunately, she had to leave early on Thursday morning, so even with her visiting twice and us not having work/school on Fridays, we were only able to have one full day with her when we didn't have to go to work/school. Oh, well. It was good to see her anyway. She is now 2 or 3 days into a 10 day meditation retreat where she doesn't get to talk or communicate with anyone. That might be good for her relationship with the friend who was originally in charge of the Boston plans (and who is also at this retreat). :-)
Gizmo got his stitches out two weeks ago and got rid of his funnel a little over a week ago. He still looks a little funny as his fur grows back, but he's back to his little evil self again; which is something of a relief after 9 months but it's also a bit aggravating sometimes.
School is going well for both me and Rachel. Last week, I took a "big quiz" (not really a test, but we had 2 hours to work on it) in my Computer Structures class. As I mentioned parenthetically, we had 2 hours to work on it. When I finished in 25 minutes, I was a little nervous, so I spent about 10 minutes double-checking my work, then turned it in. I was the second to finish, but as I walked out I could see that some of the other students had barely gotten started (and I assume they probably needed all two hours). It was a bit of a surreal experience.
My boss really likes my work and has gotten to the point of embarrassing me, she's so enthusiastic about it. That's nice on the one hand, but she keeps going on about me working through next summer and maybe for the whole time I'm at UNH. I don't know about that--I'd rather find an internship or something for the summer that is related to my degree, but I guess we'll see. She does want to pay me $20 an hour for the work when school is not in session, so the pay is hard to turn down...
Now to the hockey update: The reason I didn't post anything about last week's game was twofold; first, I wasn't feeling like writing a whole lot that night after we received a 12-3 drubbing. Second, I wasn't sure the 12-3 was going to hold up because the guy who scored 7 of their goals (yes, seven) had played a couple of years of high school hockey, which makes him ineligible for our tier. In the end, they forfeited and we got our first win of the season (kind of cheap way to get the win, but there's no saying we wouldn't have won anyway if that guy hadn't been playing). That means that any stats from that game (including my one assist) don't count.
The weird thing is that the other game played that night also ended up as a forfeit since the winning team had an ineligible player. That's part of why I wasn't sure what was going on with that game; I didn't expect to see two forfeits listed on the web site, so I thought there had been a mistake. Our captain confirmed tonight, however, that both games were indeed forfeits.
Another weird thing that happened after the game last week was that we found out it was now legal to take slap shots in our tier. The league had simply removed the rule that banned slapshots from the web site and didn't bother to inform anyone. God, I miss the GSHL's organization (even if the schedule was a bit slow to come out every season).
This week's game was a bit more normal. We played the same team we did in the very first game (which we led 6-3 going into the third period but lost 7-6 in a shootout). For the third time in the four games we've played, I scored the first goal of the game, this one on my team's first shot of the game. The goalie just left me about a foot and a half of space on the short side and dropped to his knees, so I just shot it in. I also picked up a goal in the second period on a technicality (I was screening the goalie and the shot hit me before it went in). I don't know for sure if I'll get official credit for that goal or not, but it was technically mine. I don't mind if Josh (the actual shooter) gets credit, though. He earned it.
So we led 5-2 heading into the third period, and all the chat on the bench during the break was how we had led them by 3 going into the third last time and managed to lose it. We didn't this time; we hung on for a 6-3 win. Now we have a win in the usual way, which makes us all feel better. The team is starting to gel as we get to know each other better, which gives us more confidence on the ice.
Some readers who know I don't score very often normally might note that I now have 5 goals in 4 games (3 games if you don't count the forfeit) and might be wondering if I might be playing in too low a tier. I've been thinking about that, too, pondering whether I should try moving up to Tier 3 in January. At this point, I'm thinking no--frankly, I'm not out there skating around a lot of people (a few, but only the people who obviously have only been playing for a year or two). I think the goaltending in this tier just isn't what I was used to in the GSHL--my team has scored 6 goals twice in four games, after all. Besides, a little time being able to score a few might boost my confidence before I take on a higher level of play again.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Sarah and the Hockey Game
Rachel's Australian half-sister Sarah is in town for a few days. She arrived last night on a train from D.C. and is staying with us until early Friday morning, when she and a friend take off in a rental car for a (fiddle) gig in Vermont. While we were all eating dinner last night I mentioned that I had a hockey game tonight, fully intending to say that I didn't have to play if she wanted to do something else. Before I got that out, however, she said that yes, she would like to come see the game. She had never seen a hockey game before and was quite excited to come watch me play. She also told us as we were walking to the car before the game that she has a friend in Australia who has become quite the hockey fan recently and "knows everything" about hockey, but he hasn't yet gotten to actually go to a game, so she'll have to let him know that she's been to one now.
The game itself wasn't bad. I played center for the whole game this time, winning about 3/4 of my faceoffs. I again scored the first goal of the game, this time when I pounced on a rebound and flipped a backhand shot into the upper corner. Unfortunately, our opponents scored the next 4 goals, including 2 shorthanded goals on really bad plays by the defense. We answered in the third on a 2 on 1 where I made a nice backhand pass right onto the tape of the other player's stick and he slid it just inside the far post. That was it, though, and we ended with a 4-2 loss. We were lacking a couple of our better players from last week, though, and are still in the process of gelling, so I think we're okay. For myself, I felt I played a pretty good game, keeping my head in it and making smart plays pretty much throughout.
I did find out that it's pretty typical of the Connecticut Hockey League that there is just one referee who acts not only as referee, but also as scorekeeper. I really got spoiled by the GSHL. This league is really Mickey Mouse in comparison. Still, the games are clean and fun and the players on all three teams I've met so far seem like good people, so I won't complain too much. Not yet, anyway. ;-)
The game itself wasn't bad. I played center for the whole game this time, winning about 3/4 of my faceoffs. I again scored the first goal of the game, this time when I pounced on a rebound and flipped a backhand shot into the upper corner. Unfortunately, our opponents scored the next 4 goals, including 2 shorthanded goals on really bad plays by the defense. We answered in the third on a 2 on 1 where I made a nice backhand pass right onto the tape of the other player's stick and he slid it just inside the far post. That was it, though, and we ended with a 4-2 loss. We were lacking a couple of our better players from last week, though, and are still in the process of gelling, so I think we're okay. For myself, I felt I played a pretty good game, keeping my head in it and making smart plays pretty much throughout.
I did find out that it's pretty typical of the Connecticut Hockey League that there is just one referee who acts not only as referee, but also as scorekeeper. I really got spoiled by the GSHL. This league is really Mickey Mouse in comparison. Still, the games are clean and fun and the players on all three teams I've met so far seem like good people, so I won't complain too much. Not yet, anyway. ;-)
Friday, September 12, 2008
Scott's First Week of School
My first week of school seemed a lot longer than the 4 days it actually was. This was probably because I'm not used to working half-time while going to school full-time. I'll get used to the schedule. Tuesdays will be the toughest, though, since I have an evening class on Tuesdays that doesn't finish until 9:05. Since I have to be at work at 9:30am Mon-Thurs, that translates into more than 11 1/2 hours on campus.
Unlike Rachel, I have no idea how many new grad students there are in my program, but I'm sure I'm not the only one. Two (Computer Organization and Intro to Databases) of my three classes are double-listed as undergraduate courses and the enrollment seems to be about half undergrad and half grad students. The other class (Introduction to Programming/C) has 10 students in it. We had our first homework assignment due on Wednesday, and 4 of us (myself included) turned it in. The professor was not very happy about that.
In short, my courses look interesting and I'm looking forward to the rest of this term, but it's going to be a lot of work. Having Fridays off is nice, though. ;-)
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Hanna and the Hockey Game
Tropical Storm Hanna frankly was something of a disappointment. Sure, there was a lot of rain and some winds gusting up to 30 mph or so, but I've seen that kind of stuff before. It does sound a little strange even to me to be saying that it was a disappointment, but I got all excited over basically nothing, it turns out.
Less disappointing was my first game with the Connecticut Hockey League. I played my first shift at center, winning the one faceoff I took quite handily. When I got to the bench, however, someone else had shown up and the lines were reshuffled, leaving me at right wing for the rest of the game. The two women who were playing center were pretty good at faceoffs and quicker skaters than I, so I had no problem with that change.
On the ice, I drew a penalty about 23 minutes into the first period. (Yes, 23 minutes. We play three 25 minute running-time periods, it turns out.) I then proceeded to redirect a beautiful pass into the net about 9 seconds into the power play for my first goal outside the Puget Sound region. I scored a second goal in the second period on a nice screened shot that hit the goalie and trickled through into the net. I also had an opportunity in the third when their defense fed me the puck while I was standing all alone in front of the goalie. As always happens in that situation, I got briefly confused and wound up shooting it at the 5-hole that he had closed up half a second before. Needless to say, I didn't score. (In hindsight, I know I should have stepped back and roofed it, but that's always easy to decide later.)
The team did okay considering that half the players (including the goalie) were new. We went into the third period with a 6-3 lead, but the two centers and three defensemen were getting worn out and the third period ended with a 6-6 tie. The CHL rules dictate that we go straight to a 3-shooter shootout: we scored once, they scored twice, so we lost it in the shootout. Still, I think we did well and once we start getting used to playing together we should start winning games like that.
They didn't have the new jerseys ready for the first game, but I was able to request number 17 and he told me I'd get it next week. We wore solid white jerseys, so I pulled out my old Road Hazard roller hockey jersey for tonight's game.
In all, it was a little disappointing to lose after leading for virtually the entire game, but it was a fun, clean game. As for level-of-play, it's mostly equivalent to GSHL division 6A or B, with a few weaker players whom I'd put in division 7. I saw no players of division 8 caliber, either in my game or in the game before mine (which was between the only other two teams in Tier 4). I felt pretty comfortable with the level. (I always did feel a little overwhelmed in division 5, to be honest.)
Less disappointing was my first game with the Connecticut Hockey League. I played my first shift at center, winning the one faceoff I took quite handily. When I got to the bench, however, someone else had shown up and the lines were reshuffled, leaving me at right wing for the rest of the game. The two women who were playing center were pretty good at faceoffs and quicker skaters than I, so I had no problem with that change.
On the ice, I drew a penalty about 23 minutes into the first period. (Yes, 23 minutes. We play three 25 minute running-time periods, it turns out.) I then proceeded to redirect a beautiful pass into the net about 9 seconds into the power play for my first goal outside the Puget Sound region. I scored a second goal in the second period on a nice screened shot that hit the goalie and trickled through into the net. I also had an opportunity in the third when their defense fed me the puck while I was standing all alone in front of the goalie. As always happens in that situation, I got briefly confused and wound up shooting it at the 5-hole that he had closed up half a second before. Needless to say, I didn't score. (In hindsight, I know I should have stepped back and roofed it, but that's always easy to decide later.)
The team did okay considering that half the players (including the goalie) were new. We went into the third period with a 6-3 lead, but the two centers and three defensemen were getting worn out and the third period ended with a 6-6 tie. The CHL rules dictate that we go straight to a 3-shooter shootout: we scored once, they scored twice, so we lost it in the shootout. Still, I think we did well and once we start getting used to playing together we should start winning games like that.
They didn't have the new jerseys ready for the first game, but I was able to request number 17 and he told me I'd get it next week. We wore solid white jerseys, so I pulled out my old Road Hazard roller hockey jersey for tonight's game.
In all, it was a little disappointing to lose after leading for virtually the entire game, but it was a fun, clean game. As for level-of-play, it's mostly equivalent to GSHL division 6A or B, with a few weaker players whom I'd put in division 7. I saw no players of division 8 caliber, either in my game or in the game before mine (which was between the only other two teams in Tier 4). I felt pretty comfortable with the level. (I always did feel a little overwhelmed in division 5, to be honest.)
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Rachel's First Week of School
"Week" is really an exaggeration, since school started on Wednesday, but whatever.
Rachel learned last week that she is the entire incoming class of Astronomy graduate students. This has its good points and bad points: good that the department is not overworked in trying to orient loads of new people all at once but bad in that she is the center of attention; which is something Rachel doesn't really like.
One quirk of her department is that they don't tend to post meeting times for the graduate-level classes in the class schedule. In the last few days before the term, they post a first-meeting time then discuss when the class will meet. That makes planning a schedule for the semester a bit annoying, but leaves the schedule flexible, I guess. She now has a schedule that has classes Monday through Thursday with Fridays off. My schedule will also be that way, so we can plan on running some errands on Friday occasionally, though we'll probably plan for it to be a (home)work day for each of us.
None of Rachel's classes are large. The biggest one had 9 people, but several of those people probably won't be returning. (The classes are listed for both graduate and undergraduate students, and Yale has a "shopping week" for the undergraduates where they attend many classes during the first week or so to determine if they want to take the class or not. 5 of the 9 are undergraduates, so it is likely that at least 2 or 3 of them will not return.) One class consists of just 2 people. (Personally, I'd rather have 9-11 students in the class if I was a student; that's a small enough number to allow for individual attention as needed, but a large enough number to create some aspect of anonymity for the students. I like that number as an instructor, too, but for slightly different reasons.)
Once surprise for Rachel was when a professor she had never met told her that since she was interested in solar physics, she should stop by for a chat next week. She doesn't know for sure how that professor knew she was into solar physics, but since she's the entire incoming class it seems possible that everyone knows her interests.
In all, Rachel had a good first week of classes and expects to fit in well here.
Side note: As I write this, we are anticipating the arrival of Tropical Storm Hanna sometime tonight. The latest predictions show the center of the storm passing right over us sometime between 10:00pm and midnight with sustained winds of 50 mph and rainfall of 4-6 inches. This is not a common occurrence here, as most tropical storms miss New England completely, but it does happen occasionally and people in general do not seem overly concerned, so I'm trying to take a lead from the natives. If I can work in time between my orientation session for UNH and my hockey game tomorrow, I'll post a post-storm update.
Rachel learned last week that she is the entire incoming class of Astronomy graduate students. This has its good points and bad points: good that the department is not overworked in trying to orient loads of new people all at once but bad in that she is the center of attention; which is something Rachel doesn't really like.One quirk of her department is that they don't tend to post meeting times for the graduate-level classes in the class schedule. In the last few days before the term, they post a first-meeting time then discuss when the class will meet. That makes planning a schedule for the semester a bit annoying, but leaves the schedule flexible, I guess. She now has a schedule that has classes Monday through Thursday with Fridays off. My schedule will also be that way, so we can plan on running some errands on Friday occasionally, though we'll probably plan for it to be a (home)work day for each of us.
None of Rachel's classes are large. The biggest one had 9 people, but several of those people probably won't be returning. (The classes are listed for both graduate and undergraduate students, and Yale has a "shopping week" for the undergraduates where they attend many classes during the first week or so to determine if they want to take the class or not. 5 of the 9 are undergraduates, so it is likely that at least 2 or 3 of them will not return.) One class consists of just 2 people. (Personally, I'd rather have 9-11 students in the class if I was a student; that's a small enough number to allow for individual attention as needed, but a large enough number to create some aspect of anonymity for the students. I like that number as an instructor, too, but for slightly different reasons.)
Once surprise for Rachel was when a professor she had never met told her that since she was interested in solar physics, she should stop by for a chat next week. She doesn't know for sure how that professor knew she was into solar physics, but since she's the entire incoming class it seems possible that everyone knows her interests.
In all, Rachel had a good first week of classes and expects to fit in well here.
Side note: As I write this, we are anticipating the arrival of Tropical Storm Hanna sometime tonight. The latest predictions show the center of the storm passing right over us sometime between 10:00pm and midnight with sustained winds of 50 mph and rainfall of 4-6 inches. This is not a common occurrence here, as most tropical storms miss New England completely, but it does happen occasionally and people in general do not seem overly concerned, so I'm trying to take a lead from the natives. If I can work in time between my orientation session for UNH and my hockey game tomorrow, I'll post a post-storm update.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Gizmo Returns from Surgery
Gizmo's surgery went well and he was recovering so well they let us take him home after a couple of days. He gets to wear a cone for a couple of weeks so he doesn't tear the stitches out, but the prognosis is excellent. He is already more active than he's been for months.
"Baboon Butt" goes exploring just after getting home.(The shaved fur will grow back, of course,
but he looks funny at both ends for now.)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
I'm playing hockey this fall
I have been placed on Blizzard, a team in Tier 4 of the Connecticut Hockey League's Northford division. Tier 4 seems to be basically GSHL Divisions 6, 7, and 8 kind of lumped together. The session is 12 weeks plus playoffs, so will be done by the time I'm out of school for winter break. If Tier 4 turns out to be too low for me, then I can try Tier 3 for the winter session.
My first game is this coming Sunday (September 7) at 8:00. I have met no one on my team and don't have a jersey yet (these are provided by the league, apparently), but this should be interesting. Hopefully, they'll be forgiving of a guy who hasn't skated since June 23...
My first game is this coming Sunday (September 7) at 8:00. I have met no one on my team and don't have a jersey yet (these are provided by the league, apparently), but this should be interesting. Hopefully, they'll be forgiving of a guy who hasn't skated since June 23...
Monday, September 1, 2008
Connecticut Tax Free Week and Other Stories
It's officially been a month now since we left the west coast, which is weird to think, but we're adjusting. Since I spent the last few weeks not really feeling like posting much, I have a few things to bring people up to date with.
Connecticut Tax Free Week
This is apparently not as off-the-wall unique as I thought it was when I discovered it, but once a year, the state of Connecticut suspends sales tax on clothing and shoes for less than $300. This year, that was August 17-23. Luckily, we found this out in time for me to get some pants, a shirt, and some shoes that I could wear to work. (The shoes are really for general use--my old ones were pretty well worn out.) Rachel got a couple of things to wear to school as well. It's a nice back-to-school thing, especially for parents with several children who need whole new wardrobes before school starts each fall.
I (Scott) Started Working
Monday, August 18, late morning: Rachel and I were walking up to Yale so she could check in with her department, get a key to her office, etc, when my cell phone rang. It was my new boss asking if I could start before the term began. She had gotten permission to pay me $20/hr (which she came up with by taking the hourly wage I'll make during the term and adding in the tuition waiver that comes with an assistantship) and she was desperate for help ASAP. I started the next day, and have worked two 20 hour weeks.
Working for the office of Institutional Research is interesting sometimes, but for the last week, it is been mostly cursing the previous director of I.R. for not naming his files in any meaningful and recognizable pattern and being frustrated because I do not have access to the files I need to get the data I'm supposed to be using. (This was especially an issue for me this past Friday, when Elizabeth (my boss) was gone for the day and Human Resources doesn't know who I am, so wouldn't give me any data--it wasn't even anything that shouldn't be public records anyway, but I didn't know how else to find it. Hopefully, she can deal with this for me pretty quickly on Monday and I can finish off this rather simple study and get on to something else.)
The Daisy Cutters Won the Championship
This is technically a west coast story since the Cutters are the hockey team that I've been captain of for the past 4 years. The "official" team picture has an homage to me by putting my retired jersey in the top left corner:
It's really touching to have been honored in that way. I really miss all those guys and they've made me proud. (Side story: they saved me a trophy and my dad sent it to me via FedEx, but FedEx now claims that they delivered the trophy but I don't have it. FEDEX OWES ME A TROPHY!!! "Left it outside our front door" my ass. I don't believe that for a second, especially since Rachel was home the whole day that day. Update, 9/2/08: The trophy was delivered to the rental office (which is not at the same address) over the long weekend. FedEx did NOT deliver it to our front door on Thursday, as they have claimed, and they have offered me no explanation. Still, the important thing is that I now have the trophy.)
Slightly related; I initiated contact with the Connecticut Hockey League today. Assuming I am able to get on a team this late (their fall season starts later this week, I believe) I'll be playing this fall. Otherwise, I guess I'll have to wait a while. If I do play, it would be in the Northford league, probably Tier 3 or Tier 4. (I think I belong in Tier 3, but we'll see what happens.)
Gizmo's Ongoing Issues Finally Diagnosed
Gizmo's medications ran out shortly after we got here, so we made an appointment with a new vet to get an examination and a continuation of his prescriptions. She said she wanted to see an X-ray and have a radiologist check it out. She didn't see anything in Gizmo's bladder, but the radiologist spotted small stones embedded in Gizmo's urethra, causing a partial blockage. (Both the surgeon and the doctor have said that they have never seen it this bad without complete blockage.) Gizmo goes in tonight for surgery tomorrow morning. He'll be fine in a few days, but it will cost $3000, about $1700 of which will be reimbursed by the insurance we have on the cats, but it's still a big unexpected expense. :-(
Funny Road Name
It seems apropos that on this day when I determined that I would finally post a blog entry we went out driving and found one of the best road names I've seen so far: Roast Meat Hill Rd.
Also out on this drive, we stopped at a restaurant for lunch and when we came out, the car parked next to ours also had Washington license plates. That was a huge surprise, to say the least. (We have our CT driver's licenses, but we need to get the car tested before we can get the CT plates, and that's happening later in the week. We're well within the 90 days allowed by law for getting the registration transfered over.)
That's it for now, but I'll probably be posting a bit more as school gets started for both me and Rachel in the next couple of weeks.
Connecticut Tax Free Week
This is apparently not as off-the-wall unique as I thought it was when I discovered it, but once a year, the state of Connecticut suspends sales tax on clothing and shoes for less than $300. This year, that was August 17-23. Luckily, we found this out in time for me to get some pants, a shirt, and some shoes that I could wear to work. (The shoes are really for general use--my old ones were pretty well worn out.) Rachel got a couple of things to wear to school as well. It's a nice back-to-school thing, especially for parents with several children who need whole new wardrobes before school starts each fall.
I (Scott) Started Working
Monday, August 18, late morning: Rachel and I were walking up to Yale so she could check in with her department, get a key to her office, etc, when my cell phone rang. It was my new boss asking if I could start before the term began. She had gotten permission to pay me $20/hr (which she came up with by taking the hourly wage I'll make during the term and adding in the tuition waiver that comes with an assistantship) and she was desperate for help ASAP. I started the next day, and have worked two 20 hour weeks.
Working for the office of Institutional Research is interesting sometimes, but for the last week, it is been mostly cursing the previous director of I.R. for not naming his files in any meaningful and recognizable pattern and being frustrated because I do not have access to the files I need to get the data I'm supposed to be using. (This was especially an issue for me this past Friday, when Elizabeth (my boss) was gone for the day and Human Resources doesn't know who I am, so wouldn't give me any data--it wasn't even anything that shouldn't be public records anyway, but I didn't know how else to find it. Hopefully, she can deal with this for me pretty quickly on Monday and I can finish off this rather simple study and get on to something else.)
The Daisy Cutters Won the Championship
This is technically a west coast story since the Cutters are the hockey team that I've been captain of for the past 4 years. The "official" team picture has an homage to me by putting my retired jersey in the top left corner:
It's really touching to have been honored in that way. I really miss all those guys and they've made me proud. (Side story: they saved me a trophy and my dad sent it to me via FedEx, but FedEx now claims that they delivered the trophy but I don't have it. FEDEX OWES ME A TROPHY!!! "Left it outside our front door" my ass. I don't believe that for a second, especially since Rachel was home the whole day that day. Update, 9/2/08: The trophy was delivered to the rental office (which is not at the same address) over the long weekend. FedEx did NOT deliver it to our front door on Thursday, as they have claimed, and they have offered me no explanation. Still, the important thing is that I now have the trophy.)
Slightly related; I initiated contact with the Connecticut Hockey League today. Assuming I am able to get on a team this late (their fall season starts later this week, I believe) I'll be playing this fall. Otherwise, I guess I'll have to wait a while. If I do play, it would be in the Northford league, probably Tier 3 or Tier 4. (I think I belong in Tier 3, but we'll see what happens.)
Gizmo's Ongoing Issues Finally Diagnosed
Gizmo's medications ran out shortly after we got here, so we made an appointment with a new vet to get an examination and a continuation of his prescriptions. She said she wanted to see an X-ray and have a radiologist check it out. She didn't see anything in Gizmo's bladder, but the radiologist spotted small stones embedded in Gizmo's urethra, causing a partial blockage. (Both the surgeon and the doctor have said that they have never seen it this bad without complete blockage.) Gizmo goes in tonight for surgery tomorrow morning. He'll be fine in a few days, but it will cost $3000, about $1700 of which will be reimbursed by the insurance we have on the cats, but it's still a big unexpected expense. :-(
Funny Road Name
It seems apropos that on this day when I determined that I would finally post a blog entry we went out driving and found one of the best road names I've seen so far: Roast Meat Hill Rd.
Also out on this drive, we stopped at a restaurant for lunch and when we came out, the car parked next to ours also had Washington license plates. That was a huge surprise, to say the least. (We have our CT driver's licenses, but we need to get the car tested before we can get the CT plates, and that's happening later in the week. We're well within the 90 days allowed by law for getting the registration transfered over.)
That's it for now, but I'll probably be posting a bit more as school gets started for both me and Rachel in the next couple of weeks.
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