Georgia Aquarium trip #1
November 27, 2005 | Filed Under atlanta, travel | 4 Comments
We went to the Georgia Aquarium on November 23rd. I promise to expand this post later, but in the meantime just take a look at this photoset of pics I took.
http://flickr.com/photos/dnorton/sets/1460296/
Georgia vs Auburn
November 20, 2005 | Filed Under atlanta, football, travel | 2 Comments
Ashley and I flew down to Atlanta for the Georgia – Auburn game. It was a great weekend for college football in the South… with one exception – 4th and 10 and we let a wide receiver get wide open… how did that happen? But I digress. I’m really glad that we got to watch a game in Athens this year. I look forward to football Saturdays in Athens all year, and I thought when we moved to New York that I wouldn’t get any more.
Plus, I always enjoying watching the games with my dad. We missed our Cade’s Cove trip this year because of the move, but at least we got to watch a game together.
I thought that Spencer would get a kick out of both bands playing together at the half-time show. So, I took a small video clip with my camera. – Half-time Show (it’s only 30 seconds because that’s as long as I could record.)
And yes, that’s the view from our seats. They really aren’t that bad especially when the action gets close to the nearer endzone.
Amelia and Marc - you know the number
November 20, 2005 | Filed Under family, nyc, travel, visits | Leave a Comment
well, if you don’t, it’s 7. I promise we’ll stop counting off our visitors once we’ve hit the designated limit.
The Mahan’s flew in on Thursday, October 27 for a chilly, Halloween-ish weekend in New York. We all met up for dinner at our – mine and Ashley’s – favorite Jamaican restaurant, Maroon’s. Maroon’s has lots of great southern dishes, wonderful macroni and cheese, the best jerk chicken, grits, etc. Fantastic!
On Friday, we met at another favorite restaurant – Mama Mexico’s. After dinner, we went to see the Producers which now ranks as one of my favorite broadway shows. And I finally get Ashley and Taylor’s inside joke -”your tie is Ah-SKuuu”
Interesting side story here. Marc and Amelia didn’t have in-depth conversations with many New Yorkers excluding Ashley and me. But on Thursday night, we had a fairly long conversation with a video store clerk while we were touring the Village. And then on Friday night after the Producers, we stopped at Dale and Thomas popcorn in Times Square (best popcorn in NYC,) and the guy behind the counter is none other than the video store clerk. I don’t mean someone who looked like the video store clerk… it was the same guy. He and Marc recognized each other. Weird, huh?
On Saturday, we went uptown to take the NBC tour and then took a stroll around Central Park. Here are a couple pictures from Saturday. To see more, you’ll have to join Flickr and let me add you as a Friend. (Our blog isn’t very picture friendly. It sort of blows our the proportions. But they look better on Flickr. I think it’s the page layout…but I’m not sure.)
Getting the Mac back
November 14, 2005 | Filed Under techie | Leave a Comment
Our mac, Homer, has been in the shop for two weeks for a faulty power supply. I should have just order a new power supply myself. It would have taken me 15 minutes to replace it, but instead, I’ve had to spend countless hours on hold with Apple customer support to find out that they haven’t replaced the part yet.
Anyway, it’s ready for pick up now, so I’ll pick it up tonight, and I will add more posts to the blog. First and foremost – Marc and Amelia! 
Off topic – Google just released a new web site analytics tool that I am now using on the site. Man, is there any information they are not going to have about me. I use them for my web searches, email, IM, and now they will know how many people are visiting nycnortons.com and what links they are clicking.
Central Park in the fall
November 7, 2005 | Filed Under nyc | Leave a Comment
We got a new camera this weekend, and I went to Central Park to try it out. It’s a amazing how simple it is to get great pictures. Here’s an example. If you notice, this is the same bridge as the one in the picture with Dad in the previous post. That’s how much the colors have changed since his visit three weeks ago.
You can go to My photos for more.
By the way, I owe Amelia and Marc a post about their trip here. The only holdout is that the mac is in the shop, and the pics are on it. I promise to have it online soon.