Family and Friends

Pay this entry no heed

I came into this one with absolutely no preconceived notions as to what I would write. This one’s all about taking up space. Ah, what lofty ambitions I harbor. It’s been a while since I’ve posted for five days in a row, and I’ve got what I intended for today’s entries safely tucked away on my hard drive at work – so I’m all set for tomorrow. It’s today I’ve got to worry about. I…
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Coffee

Another victory for the scientific method

After exhaustive research, experimentation, and countless case studies, I’ve concluded that longer delays rinsing your coffee mug – do not always result in increasing cleaning difficulties. There’s a point at which the graph plotting “wait time” and “cleaning effort expended” flattens out – a little something I like to call “The Procrastinator’s Payoff Effect.” This effect is…
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Reviews

Review: Slow River by Nicola Griffith

I’ve tentatively decided to engage in the ultimate exercise in arrogance – I’m going to presume you want my opinion about the books I’ve read. You guessed it – this is my first book review. I promise to keep it brief. The latest book in my reading binge was classified as science fiction, but that doesn’t really do it justice. Slow River is not your father’s Sci Fi thriller. For…
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Travel

Catching up to the queue

Since all events are now measured in terms of how they relate to my rash, this tale is right smack in the middle of Genesis – based on the events of three weeks ago. In the beginning his skin was void of blemishes or imperfections, and the Lord said, “let there be a rash,” and there was a rash, and it was most assuredly not good. On the second day the Lord said, “let he on whom I’ve…
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Wellbeing

Being afraid of your lunch

So I’ve beaten the yogurt issue to death? You’ve got something better to do with your time? Go ahead, read another site. OOOO! I’m so scared. Which is worse: cold or cure? Are you going to eat that? My keys to a good cup of yogurt Good sense will only take me so far I am a Yogurt everyman I’ve been given a hard time, on several fronts, for a little thing called fear. Fear of the unknown.
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Family and Friends

It’s all about the choice

It was a perfectly splendid evening. Had it stayed that way, chances are good you’d be surfing the web’s wave to greener pastures right now. We were just finishing a thoroughly enjoyable episode of The Daily Show (courtesy of the tres cool DVR), when Cheryl offered her Hobson’s Choice of household drudgery. “So, do you want to start the dishwasher or take care of the laundry?” Loosely…
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Kitchen Sink

The great cough-drop debate

In my book it is written: “no menthol-less cough drop shall come before me.” Come on, it’s the menthol that makes it go, I dare you to say it isn’t so! I was sitting in my office, my throat in perfect operating condition, when I decided I wanted some menthol. Release the Halls! Nay, instead I got a poor, sugared up substitute. I got a luden’s. Don’t get me wrong, it tasted swell; but I…
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Family and Friends

Poor little kid

Introducing the amazing Adam and his stupefying feats of physical misfortune. Why is it that we take so much joy from an infant’s struggles with motor coordination? Why just the other day we were chuckling over Adam’s latest attempts to sit up unassisted. His poor little head was ducking and weaving like a wanna-be on The Contender. (The author feels compelled to advise you that he has never…
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Family and Friends

More misplaced pride

Once upon a time, I went miniature golfing with a mixed group of friends (both adult and child sized). I was putting along, having a grand time, when I noticed the uneven pour of the concrete sidewalk. With full knowledge of it’s unpredictability, I decided to bounce my ball on said sidewalk. Just as I predicted, the ball went shooting off on a path skewed from gravity’s well. Thanks to my…
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