Kitchen Sink

I was last to get picked in kickball* too...

I was tagged. This is what I’m supposed to do: 1) Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog 2) Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself 3) Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs 4) Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. I’m in a tough spot because I live my life online much like…
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Beth

Blog flashback: January 2002

I was reading through some of my early entries (those occasional posts to the old site, which eventually became this blog), and I ran across this gem from the early Beth years. Remember when Beth was four? I do, sort of. What a kid she’s growing up to be. It defies explanation… or more accurately, it defies my ability to explain. Follow this link to the post: “One tooth, three teeth” Even…
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Kitchen Sink

Binge eating versus... eating a little bit at a time, over a period of time

I was racking my brain over an antonym for binge, and you can see that I gave up. If you let them, sometimes the littlest things will drive you mad. I had a sudden burst of stubbornness, and refused to break out the thesaurus. Anyhoo, with Halloween come and gone, I was wondering what the healthiest way to eat a lot of candy is. It goes without saying that the healthiest thing would be to give the…
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Family and Friends

Let there be wood for me to knock

NURSE!?! I can’t use this laminated composite crap! Get me some real wood… oak, ash, hickory. Hell, I’ll even take pine or maple. Just get it here STAT! As it happens, my wife has suffered through the preliminary, primary, and waning stages of illness, and I’m still cold free. My daughter has seen all manner of matter treat her mouth like a two-way street, but I haven’t had so much as a…
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BethFamily and Friends

Neither trick nor treat will keep me from my appointed rounds

My wife is convinced that we are cursed. Every year, at this time, the Kauffman Household (v 2.2.2) passes around a nasty bug. Or so she says, but more on that later. Last night my daughter got jiggy with a little retroperistalsis, and tonight my wife is playing a little catch-up. I should of had a V8! That, or I should have stayed in a hotel this week; for it is not a question of IF I’ll get…
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AppleComputer

Ho-hum

I’ve got nothing better to do than to catalog my Macs, so here we go. (I’m a little bored.) Mr. T (a Mac Plus) I bought this one new from the UF bookstore in the Fall of 1989, tricked out with two, count ’em: TWO megabytes of RAM. Throw in an Imagewriter II and a 20 megabyte external hard drive, thanks to that ultra-fast, 2.1 MBps SCSI bus… and I was the envy of Hume Hall! (It was sad to…
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Wellbeing

Almost perfect

It’s cloudy and a light drizzle is falling. It’s almost November. It feels like it should be a perfect day to sit around in fuzzy, cozy, oversized clothing and enjoy some laid-back time with family. There’s just one problem. Something in my DNA is telling me that it should be colder. Walking barefoot around the house on the tile should send me scurrying for a pair of slippers. Instead…
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