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April 2006



I'm Going to the Chapel and I'm...

Thursday, 27 April 2006 5:42 A GMT-05
My little brother is getting married this weekend and as usual I'm unprepared. Not unprepared for him to get married--no, I'm not going to get all weepy eyed at the prospect my youngest sibling tying the knot.  Just unprepared like normal whene

Your gift of $250....

Wednesday, 26 April 2006 5:46 A GMT-05
I got a letter from George W. Bush, President!

Perfectly Random

Tuesday, 25 April 2006 5:47 A GMT-05
I saw this thing in a catalog and ever since I just haven't been able to stop thinking about it.  It just seems so... fashionable, you know?  Forget designer purses or Rolex watches.  This has got to be the next new thing. Thing is no

One year Older, Nothing much Changed.

Monday, 24 April 2006 5:48 A GMT-05
On Saturday I successfully turned one year older, going from 31 to 32 as I slept (I think I was born around 2am or some other ungodly hour.  Amazingly my mother still speaks to me).  It's hard work aging one whole year in such a short time,

Triple E is the Capital of Libya

Friday, 21 April 2006 6:06 A GMT-05
First it was West Nile Virus that we used as an excuse to spray for mosquitoes.  But it turns out it really just kills birds.  Occasionally it will infect humans, like any good disease, but it doesn't really have the bite of a really good e
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Life's Lessons

Thursday, 20 April 2006 5:56 A GMT-05
All I need to know I learned from the police log.
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Bush the Decider

Wednesday, 19 April 2006 6:00 A GMT-05
Amidst growing calls for Donald Rumsfeld to resign (after the damage has been done) Bush finally sought to quell the speculation and presumably the criticism as well and told the press: "I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know t

The wheat from the chaff

Tuesday, 18 April 2006 6:06 A GMT-05
We've long since switched from those weird "charcoal" briquet things to actual charcoal for BBQ (we never understood the appeal of cooking with gas).  It smells better, it lights better, and it has a hotter fire, and Lionel doesn'

ain't nothing but a hound dog

Monday, 17 April 2006 5:37 A GMT-05
Gump seems to have transitioned from happy young puppy to grumpy old dog in a matter of days.  It's a fact that his hindquarters are stiff and hurt, but once he gets moving he can still do maniac dog like the best of them.  But this sm

Spring is sprung

Friday, 14 April 2006 5:51 A GMT-05
There's a magnolia blooming on the street side right outside my window in my office at work.  It's the only one, but somehow it popped up between the beginning of the week and yesterday, which is when I noticed it.  Here in the hills, thing

Tipping Scales

Thursday, 13 April 2006 5:52 A GMT-05
You will all be happy to know I didn't freeze to death.  I didn't tip the bike, either.  It has never occurred to me to tip the bike deliberately, so when one increduolous co-worker asked me if I could possibly pick it up I answered, quite
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Wednesday

Wednesday, 12 April 2006 5:58 A GMT-05
It's Wednesday.  That's the good news.  The bad news is it's Wednesday. Yesterday there were a few mosquitioes out, which means the good times are over before they even began..... And me, I'm going to ride the bike to work today.  Th

Stubbornly Defiant

Tuesday, 11 April 2006 5:53 A GMT-05
It started out innocently enough, with my office mate asking me if I was trying to keep him on his toes.  "I'm just being obstreperous," I said.  And I wasn't even really being obstreperous. "Ubstep-whaterous?"  he

Wanton Frog Sex

Monday, 10 April 2006 5:49 A GMT-05
I must have been stuck in a box or something for the past few weeks because it wasn't until yesterday when I went out to do yard work that I noticed that green things were coming up.  I guess I've been fooled by spring so many times that I just

A Round Hole With a Square Peg

Friday, 7 April 2006 6:02 A GMT-05
My father, brother and I were on the tarmac getting his Cessna 180 ready for take-off, and I was carrying the sectionals and the headsets.  I was maybe 10, 11.  My father was talking to a mechanic who had just finished the engine overhaul,
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Conspirations Against

Thursday, 6 April 2006 6:02 A GMT-05
So I broke down yesterday--too much peer pressure--and got an iPod.  Well technically it's Lionel iPod, but I am the one playing with it because I am the technical guru in the house.  So I've been busy doing that. We have tons of cereal bu

Maple Mud Masks

Wednesday, 5 April 2006 6:01 A GMT-05
Just in case we can't use it all, I've found a potential market for our maple syrup. And you thought it was just for eating. This is what happens when you have too much civilization.  Instead of using things for their intended purpose you star

Famines, Feasts, and Rain

Tuesday, 4 April 2006 6:00 A GMT-05
Last night, instead of running around like a maniac trying to get pots and filters and lighting devices down to the sugar house, I came home and took a nap.  Then, we had a nice, leisurely dinner and watched mindless T.V. Instead of blinding su

A's & B's

Monday, 3 April 2006 5:53 A GMT-05
For the first time ever, we've actually made enough syrup that the color of our product quickly darkened from the light amber fancies to the syrup they call "Grade B."  Grade B implies that this is the not-so-good stuff, the easy-to-ma