Past Mumbling
I
n trying to do my part to
bail out our economy, I've graciously allowed my debit / check / bank / credit card number to be stolen and abused by a random person in Florida. They tried to buy something for $900 from a Wal-Mart...
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I am the Every Man”
posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago on Tuesday, Dec the 16th 2008
I
t's not as if there aren't
myriad other interesting things to blather on about, but I've become fairly bad at making the time to ramble about those things here.
Ah well. I posted a few photos of the construction work at the new office. ...
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Windows to my soul”
posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago on Thursday, Dec the 11th 2008
W
hen, in the course of human
events, one finds that opening the refrigerator at work presents them with the odor of a very fresh, very large Sharpie marker, one must breath deeply of the need to clean the fridge.
Or grab a Mt. Dew and back...
I
'm not going to call it senility
-- maybe just diminished capacity. I had the toothpaste un-capped, raised, and was squeezing a nice dollop onto the palm of my hand before realizing I didn't want minty-fresh hair.
Occasionally I go in to the bathroom to take...
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AARP Poster Child”
posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Friday, Oct the 17th 2008
S
o last night I was leaving
work around 8:30 and meandering out of the parking deck when I saw a tiny beast dart under a parked van. The creature looked like it would make for a tasty snack on the drive home, so I...
J
ust uploaded a few photos
from our tiny flood the other day. The village survived relatively unscathed, and I rode my bike around taking pictures as I don't think I'll see this much rain again for a while. There were a lot...
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Flood Insurance”
posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago on Wednesday, Sep the 17th 2008
R
ight now the gulf coast,
specifically the Texas coastline, is getting pummeled by hurricane Ike. I believe it was a Category 2 storm at landfall, which isn't historical, but the diameter of the thing is immense. Suffice to say, it's another reminder...
I
n a completely un-subtle
stretch to tie some photos I took last night to the work being done on the church ceiling, I managed to come up with a nicely hackneyed title.
I do it all for you.
This guy has been hanging out in...
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The Metamorphosis”
posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Thursday, Sep the 11th 2008
I
t only took me three years,
but the glacial pace of remodeling the church finally got me to cry "uncle." I've finished putting up maybe about 30-40% of the ceiling planks, and one night reached the Ralph Nadir of despair. I climbed off...
T
his post is rated "G" for
"Guys Will Cringe." You've been warned.
I've told this story a few times now, and I find that I dress it up with a bit of drama and tension. I'm not sure I need to do that here,...
T
here used to be a time, several
years ago when I had risen above the plebeian desire for television and only watched DVDs. It allowed me to snobbishly dismiss all the lowly folks who still needed their fix of mindless channel surfing. "Did you...
I
just uploaded a new set
of photos, the second to last batch from our 2006 Spring Break driving bonanza. It's a batch that covers our day driving across Nevada on Route 50, which many maps refer to as the Loneliest Road in...
I
'm well on my way to becoming
a pirate. Due to an eye infection that took hold a few weeks ago, I can't get a new prescription for contacts or glasses, and instead have to wear my 483 year old Ben-Franklin era yellowed-lens spectacles. ...
I
t's been a while since I've
spent an evening like this. I've wrestled with some mysterious stomach ailment for a number of years, but in the last two it's been somewhat under control. I'm sure I'm due to visit some sort of expert...