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The day got started late.  Since we didn’t finish the Trivial Pursuit game until 00:30 following a rendition of Happy Birthday to me at midnight and then lots of playing our favorite novelty songs for another half hour to each other, we really didn’t get out of bed until 10:00, then by the time I…

We arrived in Gorham, Maine about 11:45 for the 75th annual Lord Family reunion and visited with about 100 of our nearest and dearest.  Potluck lunch was great, and we visited with a bunch of folks.Later in the afternoon, we went up to camp on Sebago Lake for another dinner that couldn’t be beat; watched…

An uneventful day of driving yesterday.  We made it as far as Sturbridge, MA before we packed it in and pulled up to the Hampton Inn to catch a little shuteye.We did have a bird strike on the highway in Pennsylvania when it tried to fly across the freeway and didn’t quite get enough altitude…

With the state government shut down, there wasn’t much holding me back from going to the reunion, so I packed up my stuff and headed out yesterday at 08:30.In Wisconsin there was a little median fire that I passed just as it was getting started, and wondered what could have set it.  Then about 100…

Now that I’ve been laid off for the second time since 2006, I have the time to go to my families 75th annual reunion.  I’ll be in the car before 09:00 this morning on my way to Gorham, Maine for the event.I’ll be picking up Daniel at the bus station in Chicago, and then it’s…

Looks like we won’t have a state budget deal before Thursday at Midnight…Guess we’ll get started cleaning our desks so that they’re not crappy when we get back from a shutdown.On the plus side, I could get a weeks uninterrupted vacation.

My father’s day gift was a scale.  Hint.  Hint.The bad news this morning was 243.7 — ugh.Comic from Parade Magazine, 19-Jun-2011