Here and Where; 13 Wonderful Beers, er, Years

Yesterday I stumbled across a site for The Where Project, a gathering site for bloggers who write about their locales, using technology to "map" themselves, as it were. I have a feeling I'm going digging into this for a long time. I also thought the site and its blogs might appeal to some of the people who stop by here. There are city blogs, rural blogs, travel blogs, bicycle blogs...all manners of life-navigation via the internet. Check it out if you get a chance.

I understand the site is the project of a graduate student doing a dissertation on people's use of technology to relate to place. As an educator myself, I felt duty bound to assist his research, and so submitted FTR to his link list...
Speaking of things local...today Kristine and I will be checking out one of the great local events of the year, the 8th annual Michigan Beer Festival at Riverside Park in Ypsilanti. We've always wanted to go to this, but had always managed to be out of town the day it was held. This year we made a conscious effort to keep the schedule free. We should get there around 1:00--look for a tall guy on the verge of heat stroke, accompanied by a cool (in every sense of the word) brunette.

This is actually our anniversary celebration this year. The official date is Monday, but as I'm getting dental surgery then, we figured we'd better get the festivities in early. 13 years, we've made it. Guess that's the Beer anniversary, at least for us. And they say romance is dead.