June 2010
19 posts
New York, Just as we Pictured It
A little less than 2 years ago, Tracy and I packed up a moving van and moved to New York City. On Tuesday, we will be pulling a moving van out of the city on our way back to NC. For now, we won’t focus on the details of the move. Instead, we’ll look back at our time spent in the city. I wrote a bit of a memoir piece which I share below - I hope you enjoy.
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Buddies
Got this picture sent to me today. Tracy met Jordan in the Park and they had fun with Miller and Austin.
Funny what six months will do, huh?
Where were you?
When Landon Donovan scored the goal in stoppage time to send the Yanks through to the 2nd round of the World Cup.
I was screaming and running around my office.
These folks were at a bar in Lincoln, Nebraska. By now you’ve seen the goal plenty of times. I like watching these fans, sitting in silence for the first 45 seconds as the time ticked by. Then a half chance for Algeria. Save....
Weekend Update
It seems we are trying to pack as much as possible into every day, especially on the weekends. This weekend was no exception, as we enjoyed a variety of fun activities and the awesome sunny weather.
Friday night we took the Metro North train to Connecticut where we had dinner (or a “barbecue” as those up here call it) with my co-worker Brad (aka Cosmo) and my former boss Brad (aka...
Game Day
Today at 10am the US plays tiny Slovenia in its 2nd World Cup game. It’s hard to downplay the importance of the game - if the US wins, we have one foot in the door on the way to the 2nd round. If we tie, everything is still up in the air. If we lose, it’s all but over.
I’m stoked. And then I found this unofficial World Cup anthem by “Weezer” that they created...
Last Week Pics
We’ve taken a bunch of really fun pictures in the last week. Like this family shot from last night as we enjoyed one of our favorite neighborhood spots, Blockheads
There’s a few more good ones in this slide show:
Still in his jammies...
and yet he’s trying out a swing for the first time…
Spain is really good
This 1 minute video showing the 2nd goal in Spain’s 6-0 drubbing of Poland in their final World Cup tuneup is a good representation of why they’re my pick to win the World Cup.
Personally, I love the 2nd to last pass the most (the lift, over the defenders heads to the streaking forward before the goal. Beautiful football.
NY Moment
We used to have tons of “New York Moments”, and it seems a lot have to do with getting household items back to the apartment (which is always an adventure as a car-less family).
Like the time I carried the microwave box in the rain, onto the subway, and back home.
Or the time we bought a sitting chair on Craigslist and somehow fit it in a taxi to get it home.
And, of course,...
3 days
until World Cup 2010 South Africa kicks off
4 days until US-England on ABC (2:30 EST), which promises to be one of the most viewed soccer games in US network TV history.
For those of you interested in jumping on the World Cup/soccer bandwagon, USSoccer.com has been doing awesome video segments everyday from S. Africa called Studio 90. Here’s one of the recent segments about the...
Brizcariz.com turns 1
A little over a year ago I started exchanging emails and late night HTML/CSS coding conversations with my good buddy Brent Carothers. He was interesting in dipping his toe into the murky waters of blogging, but wasn’t quite sure about the whole thing, even as he was buying a URL and putting up his first post.
About a week after his blog was born, I linked to BrizCariz.com and gave...
Half Birthday!
We posted a quick picture earlier today at 8:34am - literally 6 months to the day when Miller was born.
It seems we are living out the cliche because time has been flying. Earlier this week we spent an hour and looked through a bunch of pictures from the last six months. Though it seems like yesterday we were at NY Presbyterian Hospital, the pictures of Miller seem almost like they’re of...
Peek a Boo
Miller absolutely loves any and every variation of covering his eyes and then suddenly removing the barrier to allow him to see again. We happened to catch him enjoying a little Peek a Boo time and it’s so much fun to see him laughing and moving his legs like crazy.
Miller Peek a Boo from Zack Mansfield on Vimeo.
May Days
Oh the joys of the long weekend!
Tracy and I were talking the other day about how the 3 day weekend for Memorial Day has to be one of the most underrated holidays of all. Memorial Day does, after all, serve as the ceremonial kickstart to summer. And though we don’t look forward these days to summer vacation from school, summer does still mean things like the crisp coolness of a swimming...