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Spending Our Time Off
Well, the holiday was certain to end. I’m not too bummed about going back to work; I have Thursday and Friday off and we got outside today, finally! We had a great time…
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Merry Christmas!
I repeat, Merry Christmas! We went to the 11:00 p.m. Christmas Eve service at church last night, so we got to start our celebration in the car as the new day turned over.…
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In Lieu of Twitter
I don’t Facebook, and I don’t tweet. Nor am I entirely sure whether “Facebook” is already a verb. I’m happy to explain why I’m not a fan of these newfangled social networking devices…
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XHTML Ain’t Brain Surgery
Coding things for the web isn’t really all that difficult. It certainly isn’t brain surgery, and it isn’t even computer programming—sorry if that deflates anybody’s ego. There are really just a few simple…
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The Rest of the Weekend and Bonus Excitement
My poor old, old, old laptop shut down just as we were getting ready to leave The Cup. The screen suddenly went dark and a dire sentence: “Core temperature has reached 27° C:…
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Getting Ready for Christmas
It seems like we’ve been getting ready for the holiday since Thanksgiving! I don’t know how people with kids do it. I didn’t even bake cookies, which I think is de rigeur once…
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Procrastination
I just read a Newsweek story about procrastination. I’m serious—I just read it, and here I am, responding! All jokes aside, it was interesting to me because I’m a procrastinator—I always have been.…
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Dinner Party
Dave and I had fun at our dinner party last night. Our guests were our caving friend Jen, our church friend Rob, and a co-worker of mine, Andrew, and his wife Maggie. The…
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Food and Exercise
I’m here to talk about food. Food and exercise. This afternoon I pulled on my running shoes and went for a jog. The whole time, I was thinking about how much I hate…
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Two Haircuts and A Little Bump
Dave and I both got haircuts this weekend. His was the standard Great Clips $14-with-a-$2-tip haircut. He seems to have quite a bit of skin behind his ears this time–his haircuts are always…