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  • Camp Shower

    The following is an excerpt from our road trip to Tara’s hometown earlier this summer.  We went through Jackson WY, Yellowstone, Bighorn NF, The Black Hills, and The Badlands on our way to Yankton.  This is from our 3rd night on the road in Bighorn National Forest. *** It’s 10:30 in the evening and Tara…

  • Outdoor Post #5: I Defend Myself

    It only seems fair that I should get to give my side of the story as a follow-up to Tara’s debut post on our first backpacking trip. *** Andrew introduced me to backpacking when we had been dating for about 9 months. That’s right.  Before we had even been on a “real” car-camping trip, let…

  • Outdoor Post #4: Ozark Highland Trail

    It’s been some time since the last installment of my guest outdoor series.  This is because it took me a fair amount of coaxing to get the author to actually contribute to this blog.  This post is written by non other than my lovely wife, Tara, as she recounts our very first backpacking trip together.…

  • Coffee Table Refurb

    Our college-era coffee table was a bit of an eye-sore in the living room.  I was in a DIY mood, so I decided to paint it.  Spray paint has always been my favorite medium when it comes to painting.  This mostly likely comes from my days of painting skate ramps as a youngster.  The thing…

  • Harry and the Potters

    A few months ago, while browsing the impressive collection of music CDs at the library, I came across an indie-looking album that struck my eye.  The band’s name: Harry and the Potters.  SOLD.  I excitedly popped the CD in for the drive home.  It was pretty much as expected: lackluster indie rock redeemed by humorous,…

  • Nasty Carpet (Not an innuendo, I promise)

    In the 8 months that Tara and I have lived in our rental house, we’ve been pleased with just about everything except the living/dining room carpet.  The people that lived there before us evidently had a small dog that peed all over the carpet.  Stains are one thing, but this stunk.  It was this weird,…

  • Still Plenty of Snow…

    Desolation Lake, Elevation: 9200 ft.  June 18th              

  • Things You Do When You’re Married (that you didn’t before):

    1.  Discuss whether you will be brushing teeth before or after. 2.  Gym, shower, beer, and Red Box movie is a perfect Friday evening. 3.  Split off from your family at the mall to go into Victoria’s Secret with your wife. 4.  Look at lingerie in VS and be 100% comfortable with it. 5.  Call…

  • Things We’ve Been Up To

    May is always a busy month here at AbsolutelyAndrew.  And by AbsolutelyAndrew, I mean the Newcomb household.  Mr. & Mrs. AbsolutelyAndrew… Where was I?  Oh, yes, May.  We made a quick trip back to Omaha to watch Garin graduate.  It was a fun trip, but as always, too fast. Shortly after Omaha, we checked into…

  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bucket List

    My little brother, Garin just graduated high school.  I’m particularly pleased with his college plans as he will be doing his undergraduate in Electrical Engineering at my very own Alma Mater, UNL.  Granted, his academic ambitions reach further than mine did—his end goal is biomedical engineering.  As part of his graduation gift, Tara and I…

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