Month: January 2010
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I am a year older today. I had a rainy day off of work today, hanging out here in Oakland and listening to the sound of gravel-like downpours smashing against the skylight. I will be getting on a plane tomorrow morning and heading to Vegas, for a long weekend with Bill Perry, Marc, and Tom.…
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Catchup
I switched soaps this morning. It wasn’t a conscious decision, like that the old soap was giving me problems; I just ran out of one, and broke open a 12-pack of a different brand. I think the new brand is some Irish Spring derivative, “cool blast” or something like that. This is significant in that…
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Cash for gold city
I mentioned before that my great Midwestern tour this holiday season was a two-parter. We spent a week in Wisconsin with Sarah’s family, which I’ve done every year for I think five years now. But this time we also took a few more days and drove out to Indiana to see my family. I haven’t…
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New decade rising
For whatever reason, I have not been overwhelmed with this whole change in decade. I vaguely remember the start of the 1980s, but I think that was mostly because I got the Death Star playset that Christmas. (And when I got it, my dad joked that I should just leave it in the box because…
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Dental trauma #863
Happy New Year. I have been home for a few days. I’m still not 100% unpacked. Maybe today. I had to go to the dentist on Saturday morning for the next step in the latest dental trauma. They are replacing the crown that came off while I was in Mexico. The problem was getting the…