Last Sunday, I spent seven hours writing a blog post about accessing the Google Calendar API via Ruby on Rails. It’s a really, really obscure topic. Today I checked my analytics to find that three people visited last week via highly specific search terms related to this post. I have no idea who these people [...]
I am a Christian, and I Support Gay Marriage
Though we live in Chicago, Rachel and I were married on an island an hour outside of Seattle. Presumably to impose a “cooling off period,” the State of Washington requires ...
Google Calendar API and Ruby on Rails
If you’re a friend who reads this blog for our travel exploits, you can stop reading now. I only have a handful of friends who would find this post remotely interesting, but this isn’t for them either. This post is for the guy the spot I was in last week: Googling things like “authenticate Google [...]
I Made Great Works
I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees… Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had experienced [...]
At Once I Knew, I Was Not Magnificent
Rachel and I talked about doing a trip like this for as long as we’ve known each other. Then we got really serious about it back in September, to the point that the only thing holding us back was this nagging feeling that it was “irresponsible” or “not what we should do” coupled with a [...]
Tapas Bars in San Sebastian
The sad fact is, we’ll never—and I mean NEVER have it so good as in Spain… Because what your tapas bar needs—really needs—is three or four or eight OTHER tapas bars (or casual Spanish eateries within walking distance). You can’t really enjoy this kind of food in a vacuum. You need to graze—or at least know [...]
After the Farm
After the farm, Rachel and I headed an hour south of Barcelona to a town called Salou for a few days of RnR. Four months ago, when we decided to take this trip, my parents offered to let us use one of their timeshare weeks. We resisted because we didn’t know our itinerary, didn’t want [...]
Farming Rocks!
God the Creator had made man into His own image, and that meant that every man and woman who dwelt under God’s light was a creator of some kind, a person with an urge to stretch out his hand and shape the world into some rational pattern. -Stephen King, The Stand At first, the hardest [...]
The Cheese
The fruit of Josep’s labor, aside from some very happy cows, is milk and cheese. Sadly, while we were on the farm, Josep’s cheese maker was on holiday, so we were not able to see the process in action. But from what I gather, cheese is made by mixing milk, renin, salt and magic in [...]