OK so there's this place called martha's vineyard part 1

Which has nothing to do with Brad Pitt, but whatever.

So there's this place called Martha's Vineyard. It's a great place. I had never been there until a couple years ago. But I have a friend who has a place down there. So i've started going down there. it's an amazing place.

Incidentally, i started fishing three years ago.  Exclusively catch and release fishing. Mostly fly fishing. I'm not a fantastic fly caster, but I'm a decent angler, i'm relatively fishy. I'm not bad at finding fish and fooling fish. I've gotten obsessed with fishing, it's in my blood, and I just never really gave it a chance until 2016. But in the past 3+ years i've done a lot of it and in some cool places too. I've caught fish in all new england states except rhode island, as well as montana, arizona, florida, hawaii, new york, and the bahamas.

In Martha's Vineyard, there's four primary game species - striped bass, bluefish, bonito, and false albacore. You can also catch tautog, scup, and sea robin, and probably other fish, but those are the ones that come to mind.

I was in MV with my Dad and we were staying at Rick's place. We arrived on the ferry friday evening. Rick's place is right on one of the tidal ponds, of which there are several big ones on the island. Rick saw a bunch of birds on the water, which means that they're chasing after small fish, which means that there are bigger fish chasing the small fish. Sure enough, within 20 minutes, both Dad and Rick caught a fish. We were spin casting, which i'm not great at, and I think i'm still learning how to do a fast retrieve with a jigging action to give the lure more action. But what an amazing start to the trip. We were on the board! We've had two other marthas vineyard/cape cod/woods hole fishing trips earlier this year that were not extremely successful, so it was nice to get off to a fast start.

(unpublished ~2007 draft) the likes

the likes of you.

i started reading the colossus of new york: a city in thirteen parts, by colson whitehead, and it's gold.

tonight was laughs with kane and matt and clynton, music ball games. i did not watch hairspray or any other musical

jeff roy and mark are all doing great jobs with their blogs, i'm impressed. mark is really outdoing himself. roy is writing for class too. jeff commits legends. black or blue navbar?

tons of tunes. i like eating at crazy doughs in harvard sq. i talked to shane for a while, he's at law school working full time. i don't understand how he does this.

(unpublished ~2007 draft) these things happen/head full of ideas

i'm on the porch. my computer is really slow. it's warm here.

(unpublished ~2008 draft) Bostonalicious: The Drive Home

Bostonalicious: The Drive Home

On the drive home the people in the left lane pass you on the left. Problem is, the people on the right pass you on the right.

I like looking at faces on the drive home. Who are all these people? Where did they come from and where are they going and where are they sleeping tonight? You can infer and extrapolate what you like from the make and model of their car, their driving style, and their seatbelted appearance.

In Massachuetts people wait for their chance to get angry. Road rage is ever-present, ready to emit at the sign of an aggressive driver or careless commuter. Parking, rush hour, and bumper to bumper traffic particularly incite emotions. Whatever frustration has built up at home, work, or the grocery store gets its chance to shine from the pulpit of the driver’s side window.

Pedestrians walking home from Whole Foods with their reusable bags enter the crosswalk in front of two lanes of weary drivers and proceed to shout back at the compacts that honk and bellow. I cheer on the pedestrians and the folks taking charge and taking offense. If nothing else, it’s entertaining after an hour on the highway.

Closer to home, walls of subway passengers spill from the T and clog the sidewalks and barricade intersections. Walk signals become white beacons of invitation and approval. Truck drivers and cab drivers plod through the sea of the homeward bound.

Most windows stay closed. I imagine everyone listening to boring talk radio or bad music on their iPods that they choose to connect via FM radio rather than a simple tape adapter. Here it’s still legal to gab on your phone, blast texts, and multi-task away from your desk.

Many roads carry these travelers – Route 2, 95, 495, and 9. The Mass. Pike and the Middlesex Turnpike. Commutes with traffic, reverse commutes, short commutes, long commutes. Telecommuters commute to the living room. Many commute across state lines. Cops and troopers wield radar guns and pull over with impunity.

If you make it home safe, be grateful you didn’t get into an accident, didn’t get ticketed for speeding, and didn’t get any bad news on your cellphone on the way home.

The drive home can take you from your parking garage to your two car garage, but it can’t take you much place else.

(unpublished ~2009 draft) peanut brittle

peanut brittle

ate too much of it. and too many thin mints. the necco kind.

also ate two banana chocolate chip muffins too fast and a bagel with cream cheese too fast. then my stomach hurt for the rest of the night.

here's a cool website with more this jewelry Shaw Jewelry

andy's here, so we're having fun. talking about music and football and stuff. good times.

had physical therapy appt today, i'm doing well! i've got new exercises to do, which are pretty sweet, so i'm pumped about that

i've got a book that's due today but i think i'm gonna call the library and see if they'll renew it for me cause i've already renewed it 3 times online haha

watched the stephen colbert christmas special, it was pretty good. bears!

patriots game yesterday was awesome. chris made vegetarian chili which was really good of course. i wanna make jerk chicken, i just gotta rally.

i'm still watching the celtics game from yesterday too. tmrw night is bc v purdue at madison sq garden, lil bball game with the tyrese rice show. should be fun.

bc lost to st louis this weekend, so let's hope they come out and play hard tmrw. purdue is ranked #11, so it should be hard, but let's go BC!

weekend was good, just took it easy, needed it.

(unpublished ~2009 draft) my blog ain't loadin right in firefox

looks messed up. might have to switch templates.

firefox 3.5 is pretty excellent tho. finally, a decent web browser. it only took til 2009.

(unpublished ~2009 draft) yo dave where's the content

oops, let me, here it is, right...over...here

ahhh there it is i found it it was in the corner

hmmmmmm content content content content

(unpublished ~2010 draft) yo

yo i aint got no time but im still here will talk soon lata

here's a really crazy photo, city lights, i think it's from the 50s maybe

(unpublished and untitled ~2010 draft)

hey whats up. below are some cool photos of the us womens olympic 8 that won a gold medal at the coin flip for a jaguars game. pretty sweet.

well yeah, how's it goin. mad warm here in beautiful new england today. actually, it's warmer than it is in los angeles! i'm hopping on a plane tmrw to go to LA for a week. i head out there every year and visit a couple friends.

this year im being ambitious, and trying to see several people. i'm not sure what's actually gonna happen and i probably could have done a better job of planning it out, but whatever happens happens. last year i hung out at my buddys place which was a converted garage, but now he lives somewhere better, so im looking forward to that.

im psyched for the plane ride and hope that i get a chance to nap or read a book or watch a movie on my computer or something. also, what are the chances that i actually get through security without accidentally bringing a water bottle or a swiss army knife or something? id say that they are slim to none given my track record of mistakes.

(unpublished ~2010 draft) blogger repositioning

i need a little break, hold on

oh, yup, you guessed right -- that's 20,000 north korean soldiers

You won't believe what happens when a blogger blogs

No I'm not ex buzzfeed or ex clickbait company, I just know what gets butts in seats, and it's headlines and post titles that begin with "You won't believe..."

Well, it looks like I blogged off and on until 2012, then gave it up until 2017, posted four times, then gave it up again, until now. Consistently inconsistent, that's my middle name.

So what's happened since 2017? This and that, ya know. I won't try to recap it. I don't think I have as many random photos on my hard drive that I can post as the heading for each blog entry (such as the one you see above), so I guess I definitely haven't been scouring the internet for random images that I like.

Let's talk about this past weekend though, where do I start...

We in here now

OK ok we are making progress.

1. Edited the favicon to a placeholder that's not an ugly orange B. Mellow green square is preferable.
2. I have no excuse for their being no information in the "about" or "contact" us sections. I also put in fake@fake.com for email contact information. But! The comments are open and I don't even think there's a CAPTCHA or word verification thing. So, bots, please feel free to spam away.
3. I have 60 something drafts dating back to like 2011. They're mostly empty, but maybe one of them will have some gold. I'll start digging.

I'm being told to make dinner so I will

be        right         back

Working on it

Working on it here, give me time. I mean, maybe don't give me two years but...oh, wait, yeah, gimme two years. Thanks.

Just fired this bad boy up. I enabled HTTPS. Nice! Huge win there. Better late than never. Now what I'm really curious about is if this website is mobile optimized or not. I gotta check.

Turned off the Kurzweil AI RSS because it wasn't working anymore. Cleaned up The Internet section. Determining what's next. I want to write about this past weekend...