I hadn’t thought about it before, but a card that came in the mail today struck me as odd.
“Congratulations!” it said.
I’ve said it to other people on their anniversary – many times. But today, at this moment, it seems off… somehow not quite appropriate. It makes wedding anniversaries sound like some kind of endurance award, doesn’t it? You don’t…
I was going to hold off on this post for another week, but I really need to write something happy today.
The following is a letter I wrote to a good friend a number of years ago (blame the 2001 me for the writing).
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It was the beginning of my second year at UF and it was a terrible semester. I was unsure of my future plans and I was lonely. After my first year (in the dorms), a group of my…
As you could guess, this is another one of my father’s test scans. It’s another reason I’m eager to get over there and do more. I have few pictures of my grandparents, and I haven’t seen the ones my father has in ages (it’s a chore to haul out the projector, and I’ve never been satisfied with the simpler “hold it up to a light and squint” method of…
When we were four
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Once again my father has upstaged me in our computer arms race. It seems that every time I buy a computer he buys a better one. To be fair, our replacement cycles are similarly modest, he earns more money, and his computing needs are more robust… but come on dad! Give a nerd a break.
Well this time he didn’t get another…
Did you know there are rodents that will eat the wiring in your car? Eat may not be the right word. Chew may be closer to the truth. In either case, I’m a victim of such a creature. And I’m not alone. Dozens of folks at my office have suffered the same fate – some more than once.
I got off lucky though. I only spent a little over $200 fixing my car. I wasn’t even having any symptoms…
I reached a new low two weeks ago. My patience wore through and no amount of sympathy or understanding was going to save me.
We were sitting in church and Beth’s verbal ticks were firing on all cylinders. They were loud enough that I had trouble hearing the lessons being read, so I tried asking Beth to lower her voice. We think she has some conscious control over the behavior because she…
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the news this afternoon around lunch time. I was kind of frustrated too. No one else in court was either surprised or interested.
It’s not like the balance of power just shifted in the legislative branch of government.
Ah, but you see: it might have. When Al Franken is seated (the likely senator from Minnesota), the Democrats will have 60 seats… a…
I think maybe you can judge a book by its cover – a little anyway. There are aspects of covers that mislead, but I wonder if there are also aspects of my cover that tell more about me than I knew.
Take my voice. My mouth is capable of producing a range of sounds, but my default leaves something to be desired. It’s wimpy. It lacks conviction. It’s hollow. But with a little bit of effort I…
I’d planned this post as a bit of self-parody, after my “two thousand and something” entry last night. I was going to do one of those “a year ago on this date” posts, then admit I hadn’t posted anything a year ago.
Trouble is, I did. Damn. So I checked two years ago. Double damn. Not only did I find a post, I found a pretty significant one… the kind of thing you’d actually use…