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3/17/05

Random Images from This Winter, Part XXXVII

First, a shot from Election Day, where we were doing Election Protection in Reading, Pennsylvania. I courted the local kids with about forty pieces of Starburst, and by the end, they were walking around the neighborhood screaming, "Kerry Edwards!" The election was a disaster, but I'm pleased to report that we delivered Pennsylvania, as promised:

Our very close friends Lindsay and Dana had a giant, beautiful baby Jack in December - I was lucky to be in the room while Dana went into labor (an event that should serve me well later) and we went to the hospital the day he was born:

Occasional commenter Josie, a girl I worked with at High's Ice Cream in Norfolk, VA during the summer of 1985 (and everyone had a crush on her) sent me a peanut ornament for our li'l peanut, and we took it to Texas, where it was featured on the tree this Christmas:

A nice New York City moment on the subway: an Orthodox Jew, a Muslim studying the Koran, and an African American all in perfect harmony on the Q Train. I'm from the Sesame Street generation, so this kind of thing still warms my aorta:

Just as umbrella salesmen spring up from the pavement in Manhattan every time it rains, some locals made a lot of cash digging cars out of 5-foot snow drifts on 8th Avenue in Brooklyn:

One of Tessa's best friends, the lovely and talented Nell Casey, is only seven weeks behind us in the baby dept. - they hated taking this picture, but I think they look damned cute: