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Memo to Bob Costas

August 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Lose the rug. Please. You’re fooling no one.

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Olympic Thoughts

August 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The fencers look like beekeepers on the Moon.
Badminton is not a sport. It’s a lawn game. What’s next, Olympic horseshoes?

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Hasta la vista, baby!

July 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Barry has just driven off with his daughter to take her up to D.C., where she will spend 3 days in training before leaving for 27 months in Central America with the Peace Corps.
Be safe. Be strong. Be well. Have fun. Learn lots.

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Haiku

June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Banking irony:
With the free checking account
there are no free checks

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Roving pack of obnoxious creatures

June 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

This is one of the common blights on our street:

As far as wild packs of dogs go, four chihuahuas is not as scary as, say, the pit bulls that used to get loose on a regular basis from another house on the block. Nonetheless, these little yappers are not shy about running up and growling [...]

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How ironic

June 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Thank goodness I didn’t leave it until the very last minute to get my beaver tail out of the closet. I dug it out to discover that you could barely see the black fake fur.
It was covered in real fur.
Damn cats. If I wanted a cat tail, I would have made one of them into [...]

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Off-season

February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We arrived at the Atlantis for our off-season beach vacation late yesterday afternoon. One of the risks of beaching it off-season is that your view might look like this:
Most of the time, that large tube snaking off to the left is pouring out a dark sandy slurry…I guess either the beach didn’t have enough sand, [...]

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Christmas food blogging 2

December 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

There’s no light brown sugar. How can there not be any light brown sugar in the house? Dark brown sugar, white sugar, confectioner’s sugar, honey, molasses, simple syrup. Feh.

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The First Game of the World Series!!!

October 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Like I give a shit.

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Coming up for air

September 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Worked labor day, worked all week, worked saturday, worked sunday. And the two BIG projects that were supposed to hit in August should start any day now. Probably just in time for me to leave town for my wedding.
I went to a small business seminar once in which the speaker said “If you don’t wake [...]

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