Category: General
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Inheritance
Finished the last of the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini last night at three minutes to midnight.Well written except for the one strange thing where he mentioned that the city walls to the capitol seemed to be 300 feet tall; then later they scaled them with ladders. Don’t know how you would make ladders that…
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“Fucking man shoes”
Had Mike and Darrell over for dinner last night, and Darrell suggested that we watch this documentary on Netflix called, Marwencol. It turned out to be a really interesting story about a guy who suffers a traumatic brain injury and his amazing self created recovery process building dioramas of a WWII village.
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Blizzard
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Daniel and I went to the grocery store in the late morning and had lunch at Godfather’s Pizza. When we left, it had started to sleet. By 17:00 light snow was falling. Had to shovel the walk several times for the trick or treaters. …
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TV
Well after the Cardinals pulled out a victory in extra innings last night against the Texas Rangers we’ll have a game seven in the World Series today; that means that the new series, Grimm on NBC, that I’ve been waiting for will have to go onto the DVR for viewing at a later time. A…
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Headlines are Punchlines and Crazy is Crazy
As a follow on to this piece from Lewis Black’s The Carnege Hall Performance where he talks about people who had named their kids, “Shithead”, “Asshole”, and “Abcde”; our contractor Eric F-J claims that his sister arrested a kid named “Orangejello” and he had a brother named “Lemonjello”.What’s up with this?
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Will you be in tomorrow?
Most people would say, “If I don’t get hit by a bus, I’ll be there.”In fact it is such a cliche in the way of meeting your demise that the father in the undertaker family in the HBO show, Six Feet Under actually gets it that way in the pilot episode; but, Al Louismet, Agency…