The past weekend was full of errands and activities. The Boy and I attended a ship launching, which was wicked cool. I got the dog to the dog park. I picked out recipes for Thanksgiving, and went shopping to stock up on the necessary ingredients. I even stocked the bird feeder, suet feeder, and hung [...]

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This is a small plastic lizard:

It has been sitting in the gutter at the end of my driveway for several days now, nestled in the muck and autumn leaves. This is nothing new around my house. Odds and ends and miscellaneous bits often get scattered about. Just this morning I found the Girl’s Croc knock-offs [...]

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Go to your local organic food co-op, and wander around loudly complaining that you can’t find the Twinkies.
Go to the zoo and sit just outside the tiger cage holding a leash that’s been raggedly sheared off about a foot from the end, weeping inconsolably.
Sell dime bags of recrystallized caffeine on the corner. Advise your clients [...]

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In Fallout 3, I am given missions to complete that require persistence and a set of lethal skills, and if I am successful I may help civilization recover from its descent into anarchy.
As a parent, I am given missions that require the patience of Buddha and the persistence of Sisyphus, and the only potential reward [...]

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Strange Trip continued….
After crossing the width of Washington State, I passed through Spokane and headed into the Idaho panhandle. The strongest memory I have of this area is how incredibly beautiful it was. After the rolling treeless plains of Eastern Washington, entering the Rocky Mountains was like passing into the Promised Land. I keep telling [...]

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A posting of a journal entry I made at another website. It’s one of my favorites.
My son is in kindergarten. He enjoys it very much.
The other day he announced “Dad, I saw an elf today!”
I said, “Oh, really?” thinking that he was talking about a cartoon character.
“Yeah. He’s in [...]

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