Good grief -The Lime Bomber?

Are you a music nerd? (Note: this is different from a "band fag")

It's that time of year again - The Onion's Least Essential Albums of 2003. Funny stuff.

Finally, a Nor'Easter that lived up to its billing (yes, this links to pics). I'm still shoveling the driveway!

This article makes a very good case for getting your flu shot. Of course, as someone who makes vaccines for a living, I may be biased.

Ann and I were excited to catch the 20th Anniversary of Phish show last night at the FleetCenter. It was a great show, especially the video retrospective of Phish's career. Ten years ago this month I saw my first Phish show. The anniversaries put me into a reflective mood before the show and I thought of all that has happened to me since:

• I graduated High School, got into College and graduated College
  
• I took the PSAT, the SAT, 3 SAT-IIs and the GRE
  
• I've drank beers ranging from <1$ a can to $125 Sam Adams Utopias
  
• I've had 4 different cars to call my own
  
• I've had 7 different jobs
  
• I've bought 100 CDs, nearly all of them because of some close or not-so-close relationship to Phish
  
• I've seen 44 Phish shows
  
• I collected about 300 Phish tapes, and about 75 CDs
  
• I went from hoping and praying that my latest post would get into the r.m.p. digest, to being the person who decides what posts go in the digest
  
• And most importantly, I met Ann, got engaged, and got married
  

The first words that Ann ever said to me were "Whose Phish sticker is that?" noticing the classic green Phish logo sticker on my freshman dormroom door. Phish was already an obsession; after all that has followed those five words from Ann, Phish will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you Trey, Mike, Page and Jon.