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Posted by insert title here 1 year ago.
It's been over a year since my last posting. As I get ready to start the fall semester, there is a glimmer of hope that I can start blogging, regularly, again. It's been about 9 months since I've had a sliver of free-time, so with that sliver that I see c...
Posted by insert title here 2 years ago.
The greatest gift we could give each other on Valentine's Day was time together - a nice lunch out and general bumming around town. Love the kids to death, but time with my wife is wonderful, and it doesn't happen as much as I'd like. But that's life thes...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
Everyone here is sick - blah. That's one of the fun things about kids -- once one gets sick, you ALL get sick. And so it is here. It's not horrible, but it's not fun. We're all feeling pretty tired, congested, and the kids are irritable -- short naps are ...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
When I was younger, I was always struck by how my mom gave blood regularly. I don't know how or why she started to do this, but I recall her doing this often. Recently, I noticed in the local paper a need for blood donation, and it hit me that I have no r...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
We decided to branch out and add a 2nd cell-phone line to our plan, so I stopped in the local cell-phone store and inquired about doing so. I learned we could do that, get a free phone, and we were due a free phone upgrade (it had been 55 months since we ...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
Why it continually happens with this blog, I'll never know. The peaks and valleys of writing here cause me to think about ending the writing, but I always come back ... eventually. And, I am writing here again. It's cold today, just hovering above zero, a...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
Come on .... enough is enough. Give Ron Santo what he deserves -- to be a Hall of Famer.
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
I heard this same story three times today, and not once did anyone explain it well. It's no secret that college tuition can be expensive and that tuition at some schools costs much more than it does at others. It is also no secret that some schools increa...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
We coulda been a statistic -- seriously. You hear about all of these people who are running into trouble affording their monthly mortgage payment, and as I listen, I can't help but thinking about how lucky we are that we got out of our trap when we did. I...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
If you haven't heard, Google now offers a video-chat feature via Gmail. And, it works really well. Really. Well. I am a big fan of iChat, but have had connection difficulties at times when talking with my wife while I am at work and she's at home, and we ...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
I haven't written anything at all about my fantasy football team this year, but after 10 weeks, my team is 10-0. Yes. I am undefeated. Every week, I have been okay with the prospect of losing, but it hasn't happened. This week, things have gotten to be a ...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
This year, for Halloween, we carved our first pumpkin. N drew the face, and I cut it out. She got a little upset when she saw me cutting out the eyes, mouth, and nose that she so carefully drew, but once I put a candle inside and lit it, she got the idea ...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
With the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency, I have been thinking about exactly what to write and how to commemorate such a historic event. One of my best friends, Eric, sent me this piece that he wrote following his experience of attending Barack...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
Yesterday was the day I planned to cut the grass, hopefully for the last time this year. I started cutting at 5:30, after we ate dinner, and was barely through with our tiny backyard when I noticed that it was getting fairly dark. And as I continued cutti...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
At first, I tried to patch things up myself. It was the Thursday night that the NFL season began, and I was sitting in the living room watching the Redskins get beat up by the Giants. And in the corner where the ceiling meets the wall above the fireplace,...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
Yesterday we got out of the house and hit the local farmer's market in the a.m. And it was great. We're big fans of Fall over here, and the seasons are finally feeling like they are really changing. So we decided to head downtown and venture into over to ...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
The blog here at *insert title here* is going to take a change in direction and instead of focusing mainly on the personal, I am going to try to use the blog as a productivity tool. Warning: this could be a very short experiment, or it could work. I plan ...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
Yesterday began the new semester, and, I'll start another on Monday. Weird, I know. I started the class I am taking this semester, ENG 402: Teaching Composition yesterday. On Monday, I'll start teaching my own classes: composition. It's strange to me to t...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
Not too much to write on lately, mainly due to my working hard at getting the classes I am teaching in the fall up to speed. The summer break is nearly over, well, it is pretty much over, for me at least. Sure there's a week left, but I start a class earl...
Posted by insert title here 3 years ago.
Over the past week or so, our youngest daughter has developed a new habit: waking up shortly after 4 a.m. We're not sure how or why this started, but I really miss the old days of sleeping until 5:00. Wow. Never thought I'd think that 5:00 was sleeping in...
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