Dr Wingnut

Category: General

  • Spring… I can see it coming

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    Saw a guy on the corner of Fairview and Saint Clair on my way home picking up his laundry; and he was wearing cheap junky flip-flops.  Ahhhh, 40F in Minnesota; time to wash the car!

  • How to get a free magazine…

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    I inadvertently overpaid my bill from Time Magazine, and got this nice postcard in the mail from them…Maybe I should do something like the Lazlo Letters, but pay all my bills over by $.10 and see what happens.

  • We’re the best…

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    …in the world at being second and third — if the just completed Winter Olympics are any indication of our ability to compete.Makes you wonder what we could do if we had universal health care and took care of all our citizens, like they do in the rest of the first world.  I wonder what…

  • New member of the family

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    After putting down a dog and a cat, and sending the other cat, Mabel, off with Daniel to Purdue for the semester.  We finally decided that we really needed a pet, so we went to the Saint Paul Animal Shelter on Tuesday, 23 February, and picked up this cute boy.He had a really stupid name…

  • It’s good to live in a Jewish Neighborhood

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    Not only do we have a guy who drives around the neighborhood during Chanukkah in a car with a giant menorah on the roof, but on my way out of Chipotle this evening the guy in front of me had the personalized license plate MOHEL.  Never a dull moment around here…

  • Armbands

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    Been wondering for a while what is the purpose of those armbands that NFL and College players are sporting above the elbow.  A search of the web came up with all kinds of reasons including:Reducing the tension at the point of connection of the muscles to the boneAn attempt to kick racism out of footballOther…

  • Children

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    They seem so little, yet grow so fast.The moments now will soon be past.Enjoy them now before you know; she will be grown.  That’s how it goes.Something I must have written in a card to go with a baby present to someone.  Found it on a piece of scrap paper when cleaning out my files…