A thing that happens to you when you move to a (near-) tropical place and are surrounded by palm trees and beach and picturesque sunsets every day: you start to buy stuff like this for your house. I’m OK with it.

I had an appointment with my new dentist today. As much as I wanted to go with this guy based on name alone, I decided on one that’s less than a mile away. The most important things I learned: My teeth still suck. I take care of them, I don’t eat sugar -I use prescription toothpaste, for god’s sake – but ...

We’re a week out of Fantasy Fest, but there’s still something going on daily. It’s the Superboat Races this week; they arrived this weekend, so they paraded down Duval (on trailers, obviously) today. It was pretty awesome seeing such massive boats. They start racing on Wednesday, so we’ll probably go watch them this weekend. After the parade, we went to see ...

We took my parents on a sunset sail last night on the Appledore, one of the few schooners here we haven’t been on. It was excellent, even though it was a bit too cloudy to see sunset. We sailed out farther than we’ve gone before, too. We took my mom to the Green Parrot for a drink, then went over ...