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Goal #26: work my butt off. I had a bit of a light month this month at work, and I have a few travel plans coming up.  I need to get some ...

"Live through this and you won't look back."   -- Stars, Your Ex-Lover is Dead

I saw my final opera of the year, The Kiss , on Wednesday.  It was probably my least favorite of the year, which is not to say I didn't ...

On to the third opera of the week!  Well, technically they were the third and fourth operas of the week, but since they were performed in on...

My second opera of the year was a Saturday matinee this past weekend.  I saw The Pirates of Penzance with my cousin A.  Grandpa ended up wi...

"When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead."   -- Ernest Hemingway, True at First Light

After a huge break about halfway through the book, I finally got back to Insurgent and finished it up last week.  It's the continuation...

Goal #25: pass my test. What kind of test,  you might ask?  I can't tell you.  Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill y...

Last week, on possibly the most perfect night of the year, T and I went with G&G to see Twelfth Night at Shakespeare Glen in Forest Par...

On Wednesday night, I went to see the first of what will soon be four operas in a week.  Somehow my schedule just worked out that way this y...