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Fickle Facebook friends

Note: I wrote this months ago, so the time references are way off (like someone’s concerned about timeliness… here of all places). I was a social networking snob. At one time I had a blog, a web site, and all of it ran on a web server under my desk. I had Internet cred, and [...]

Life is like a box of Splenda

Stuff never seems to stop coming out of that dang box. I have to say, it’s disturbingly light. What lengths do chemists go to create a substance with so little density? Anyway, I bought one three weeks ago thinking we were almost out, but the old one’s still filling tablespoons for Cheryl’s elixir of life [...]

My life in song

She had no idea she was making a mistake. I’m unpredictable that way. You never know what will set me off. We were watching something on the TV and Cheryl asked, “where have I seen her before?” Not missing a beat, I whipped up a brilliant song about IMDB… set to the music of YMCA. [...]

Big Bother is watching

Cheryl was complaining this morning. Before you rush to judgement – of me – for telling on Cheryl, let me say up front that I complain just as much as she does. Only, my complaining tends to be more whiney, grating, and down right irritating. But let us not talk about me, and instead focus [...]

Saving money in the wrong places

There are some lines I won’t cross on this blog. Don’t you laugh. I’ll find you. I’m not going to elaborate, not that it’ll be necessary. I think your imagination will fill in capably. I’ve decided not to save money on toilet paper anymore. I say that now, but just you wait. A few years [...]

You’ve done this before

If you haven’t I don’t want to hear about it. I’ve been working with weights for a while now, trying to build up a little strength. You can do a fair bit with free weights alone, but there were a few exercises I wanted to add that required a bench. The kids have finally grown [...]