so, the usual life stuff has been going on…. i went back to ithaca, worked, came back to buffalo, worked. amanda is still in her surgery rotation at ecmc. nothing exciting is happening except that it looks to be cooling down here in buffalo (mid 70s). superlative. the summer of relative decadence has really made me very weak in regards to my lifting activities, but over the past couple of weeks i have been trying to ease back into going to the gym regularly. as of today, cardiovascularly, i am in much better shape… it looks like i have regained the level i was at in may. its not to the point i was at when i was bicyling 100-200 miles a week, but its not too shabby.

i have a bunch more wedding pictures to post from the disposable cameras we had on the tables at our wedding reception; i suppose i will get them up asap. as usual, there are gobs of things to do, but i am making progress, so i am hopeful of actually catching up on everything in the weblog.

for now, take a look at this picture:

this picture is actually one of my favorites of amanda; i usually have it sitting on my desk at work. it was taken in danby state forest (at least i think its a state forest), in february 2001, before amanda and i were together. amanda, her coworker at the time tammy, and i were hiking part of the finger lakes trail, and, as one can tell, it was quite snowy, which is why the picture is softly fuzzy. we didn’t have snowshoes, so we just postholed our way about. amanda is wearing my old mec fleece sweatshirt… an old friend of mine that i never get to wear anymore. amanda looks very different in this picture than she does normally.