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Earth Day 2013
Face it, short of nuking the Moon so that a large chunk of it falls to Earth and breaks the planet in half, we aren’t going to destroy the Earth. It will continue its journey around the Sun and...
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Three Week Rolling Average
Once again I am back on the weight loss kick. This time we’ve joined a local co-op for a weekly fruit & vegetable basket so that we will have better foods to eat in the house. So far, this is...
View ArticleKnowing and Seeking
I love knowing things. It is one of my favorite things. Knowing stuff is totally awesome, especially when people ask questions and you have the answers. Knowing is, as they say, half the battle. The...
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The Standing Desk – Month Eight
It has been a long time since I checked in on the desk… Our office moved, and I used that as an excuse to build a new standing desk. Still out of IKEA pieces, but this time without that pesky other...
View ArticleMemorial Park
I had an idea. I’m pretty sure it is crazy. I’m also pretty sure that’s why I like it. A Memorial Park. Imagine a place, a decently sized green space. With flowers and trees, open grass spaces, maybe...
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2014, or the Year Fink Beats the Stomach
A tradition since 2002, here are my resolutions for the year… Fitness: this is the big one. I’m going to be 40 in October, and I want to be able to take one of those “this is what 40 looks like”...
View ArticleA Sequence of Events
My father passed away on November 28th in 2013. In 2014 the 28th was Thanksgiving and I was worried that I would have trouble with the day. And while others in my family seemed to struggle, even if...
View ArticleTime Keeps On Slippin’
I felt like I needed to say something before I got to being absent from my blog for four months. I’m about 15 days shy of that, so anyway, here I am. Things have been… In 1996 I got my first real...
View ArticleKids Today
This post probably isn’t going to go the way you think… I’m at the gym. I’ve just spent 30 solid minutes swimming. I’m tired. As I’m at the locker getting ready to shower, two gentlemen in the same...
View ArticleAnxiety and Phone Calls
I don’t like talking on the phone. There are two reasons for this, I’ll get one out of the way quickly because it is less important than the other. A key component for me when conversing with people is...
View ArticleQuiet, men are gawking.
The Latest Metal Gear Solid game is out and it features a bad ass female sniper named Quiet … who the developers decided would work best if she spent the entire game in a bikini. The fu..? Oh, it gets...
View ArticleThe Magic Spreadsheet and Other Plans
I noticed the other day that in 2015 I had only written one blog entry. Normally I would have an excuse that I had been writing elsewhere, but I haven’t. Most of my writing projects have puttered out....
View ArticleJeg kalder
One question that comes up from time to time among friends or strangers is “If you could choose any super power, what would you choose?” It’s one of those questions that if people take it seriously can...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Anonymity
I had just spent all of my savings on a modem, and I had come straight home, installed it and dialed up one of the numbers on the back of the MicroCenter sale paper. I heard the soon to become familiar...
View ArticleSeventeen years ago, I met a girl in a pool hall.
Last night I celebrated, with fifty or so friends, the tenth anniversary of my marriage. I had intended to stop the party at some point in the middle, perhaps nearer the start, to give a toast or...
View ArticleDear Social Networks, Please Stop
Dear Social Networks, Please stop thinking you know better than me what I want to see. All I want from every social network is to see the all the posts from all the accounts I follow in reverse...
View ArticleThe Drafts of 2017
The last time I published a post here it was June of 2016. A year and a half ago. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t written anything this year. You see, I’ve gotten quite political in the past 18 months....
View ArticleSleeping Through the Pain
The last day of school in the eighth grade was a terrible day for me. Normally the last day of school would be the beginning of summer, but I left school and immediately went to the orthodontist where...
View ArticleTo 2018 and Beyond
This is where I would complain about writing the wrong year on my checks for the next few months, but since this is 2018 I don’t write checks for anything anymore. Well, that’s not entirely true. I...
View ArticlePrivilege and Beyond
Some days I feel old. Some days I still feel young. But one thing I generally no longer feel is ignorant. I’m not perfect and I am always learning, but it is only within the last few years that I have...
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