Month: July 2012
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Pratchett Redux
So today I had a small amount of time to kill between meetings. I hit the local Goodwill to engage in my favorite hobby, searching for Pratchetts. And I found one! In hardback! Yay! That is all.
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Spin Class, or How I Sweated My Actual Face Off
So I decided to grow a pair (I’m not sure what of, just an otherwise unspecified pair) and check out the cycle class at La Fitnesse. I’m adding an “e” to “Fitness” and italicizing it to make it Frenchier. Just go with it. So today I put on my padded bike shorts and waddled on…
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La Fitness (It’s French!)
So I took a lengthy hiatus from the gym because I broke my foot. And then I got busy and lazy and you know how it goes. Shut up. But I’m back, and today I went for a lap swim. The pool at my gym is smallish and warmish, also shallow, because it’s trying to…
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On Toppling Over
So today as we drove down a fairly busy street near where we live, I saw a man sitting on a little grassy bank just off the sidewalk on the corner at a stoplight. And as we passed he just sort of … toppled over. I remarked on this to The Lovely Rhonda because sitting…
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Joy and suffering
So today the middle child had a birthday party. Well, we had it for her. She is turning 7 next week and I hesitate to allow children this young to throw parties. It would be a lot of gummy bears and dancing to Kidz Bop videos and then they would go all Lord of the…
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If there were any doubts before
So this morning The Lovely Rhonda assisted her youngest, age 5, with a bit of room cleaning. This was after the 5-year-old was convinced that it was in her best interests to cooperate with said room cleaning since the alternative was that she would not enjoy the pool with the other kids this afternoon but…
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On the good ship Gingersnap
So my daughter has always loved me to tell her stories, and often these stories involve pirates and/or cats. The other night she asked if we could write down some stories so she could make a book. We’ve started on it. Delia’s Pirate Stories. She supplies ideas and illustrations and I flesh them out and…
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Relampago!
So it’s been muggy all day and kinda cloudy. Not my favorite. And I’m suffering from some kind of mild ague wherein I crack a sweat about fifty times a day. No, it’s not hormones. Shut up. Okay it might be. Shut up again. But it might be something else, so shut up some more. …
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Reverse Psychology
So last night The Lovely Rhonda and I attended “Jersey Boys,” a Tony-award-winning musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Okay, so that sounds like a total snorefest but it was super fun. There was lots of Jersey language and music and stuff. Shut up. Normally when we leave our kids with a sitter,…
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On massages
So The Lovely Rhonda gifted me a massage under the condition that I actually schedule it. I am not good at that sort of thing but bravely phoned up the place and, throwing all caution to the wind, made an appointment for this evening. It should be noted that last time I got a massage…
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