The past week at work was an endurance test. Once a year, we submit to the tender ministrations of a team of corporate compliance auditors. It’s that time again, so we have four detail oriented people crawling all over every aspect of our operation. My sin is typing. You see, we have this practice of [...]
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I’ve got nothing here. I’ve been swamped at work most of the week, and my home life has been busy. Sorry for the lack of content. On the Podcast front, look for a few episodes this weekend and next week. I’ll be talking to Steve Mayo, frequent reader and hockey authority, about the Stanley Cup play-offs [...]
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Colds are unpleasant. Which makes sense, because if they were a great thing, we’d spend all of our time going around licking doorknobs. And I appreciate the body’s capability to go after the microbial invader. I just wish the body had evolved a way to quietly present you with a nice text message – “You [...]
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Have you seen the Avis commercial yet? I have a confession to make. I’m in that car. I’m an overweight dorky white guy in business dress, grooving to a staccato delivery of language that would mortify me in any other setting. I have become a huge (literally) Eminem fan. And in the interest of spreading [...]
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Sick toddlers are never convenient, but there are elements of the experience that just might align in a way to reduce the suffering – not for them, no, they are going to be lying around in a swirling stupor of fever and bodily fluids no matter what, but at least the parents can find a [...]
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I’ve established a Flickr account here for future picture uploads. Consider this as general notification.
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Warmth. It gets a late start each day, but ultimately the spring warmth chases away the remnants of winter, leaving your morning coat inappropriate for the late afternoon. This is the season of Many Clothes Changes, as we straddle our wardrobes – cycling the warm weather stuff out of storage, but not quite ready to [...]
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Weekends used to be about wild fun. It was a time to run around and do things. Not that I was ever the party sort, but the weekend represented a wild abandon, should I chose to be wild and abandoning. I didn’t, but the potential was there, and that was enough for me. Now, with [...]
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It’s been a long/short week. One of those stutter-step weeks that usually appears in bad horror movies or good nightmares. Certain moments in my week seem to reoccur every few minutes – like waking up, arriving at work, or going to bed. I find myself walking into my cube in the morning, certain that I [...]
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A Possible Past We’re rolling over the mountains of Tennessee and we’re on top of the world. I’m sure residents of the Rockies will smirk, but these are the highest mountains I’ve ever personally experienced. My childhood doesn’t provide much context to this part of the country, since our trips to West Virginia never took [...]
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A short post for the night. We chewed through 544 miles of pavement today, and we can feel it. Tomorrow brings a 600+ mile marathon in seperate cars with no one to spell us for breaks. I have serious doubts about making it all the way back to Toledo in one go, but we my [...]
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It is late. Friday night, just south of Toledo and the storm is hovering over the interstate. Bright bursts of lightning flare in the clouds, painting the sky with a fluorescent white, shaded to various intensities of gray by the cloud layers. The rain hasn’t started yet, but it is promised. My wife are I [...]
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I’m blogging from a Holiday Inn Express just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. My wife and I are heading down to North Carolina to pick up a car I’ve purchased from my Uncle, who runs a used lot in Asheville. I have to say it is nice to have these kind of connections in an industry [...]
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Yeah, I’ve been blogging with the same frequency with which democrats win national elections, or so it seems. What’s up with that? Why do I blog, anyway? That’s the question I’ve spent a lot of time pondering. While I’m stuck here in a decent job, making good money, I publicly yearn to be a writer. [...]
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OK, I’m back here for awhile. Need an outlet, so this is the best place for that. Standby…
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So, I have Reagan by one hand and I am guiding her out into the middle of the living room, away from the gate. I let go of her hand, figuring she’d sit down where I wanted her. Instead, she calmly takes three steps (in complete control), wobbles a bit in a standing position, then [...]
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I started blogging in September of 2003. I’ve always wanted to be a writer, and I found blogging to be a satisfactory outlet when I was struggling with the creative writing. As a matter of fact, for about a year, blogging took over and I pretty much gave up any creative work. It satisfied me, [...]
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Yeah, I know. Things haven’t been good. While we came out of the accident in pretty decent shape, it has seemed to be a month of struggle here. We’ve been really busy with various appointments for the kids, and we are in the middle of trying to rebuild the house. Between restoring the previously flooded [...]
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Well, damn. We woke up this morning intending to take Reagan to her hearing screen. (We think she may have some ear blockages that will require tubes…at least that is the best scenario). The four of us piled into the van and headed to the doctor. Picture a typical drive through moderate traffic, and then [...]
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