Archive for July, 2003

Monday, July 28th, 2003

Gym Folk

I’ve been going to the gym long enough now that I’m starting to notice trends and regulars. Being the gregarious and sociable chap I am, I know all of them intimately and expect to be a godparent to their children. There’s red, insane rpm guy, big booty red, waves her arms around on the elliptical [...]

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Monday, July 28th, 2003

Well Duh

And in other news, watering the plant that sits right over our mail server continues to not be a good idea.

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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003

Behold the Power of Language

We’re sitting around planning the day and my wife suggests we go to the mall playground. “Yay!” my daughter proclaims. “Can we see the clothes horse?” I have no clue what she means, but jokingly (because she is anything but) say, “Well mommy is a clothes horse.” Mommy, with her best indignant jest tone, says, [...]

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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003

Frustration

There’s a fairly standard job interview question that goes something like this, “Describe a frustrating experience for you and how you dealt with it.” Over the last few years, I’ve developed a fairly conclusive answer to that, one of my most frustrating experiences. “Man on 1st and 3rd, nobody out, and we don’t score any [...]

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Monday, July 21st, 2003

Sizing

Tonight I went clothes shopping for the first time in forever. Well, not clothes shopping exactly, but I happened to get some clothes while there. Anyway … I bought 2 shirts a size smaller than I normally do. This means: I’m losing some size (not weight, since I know for a fact that’s not the [...]

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Saturday, July 19th, 2003

Parenthood

The joy of parenthood: watching your child spead peanut butter for the first time. The not joy of parenthood: three week old milk cups under the couch.

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Saturday, July 19th, 2003

Value Savings

Signs of old age keep creeping up on me. Having kids. Buying a house. Falling asleep watching movies at night. The latest axe to fall is price watching. I now really enjoy sitting down with all the shopping ads and finding the best price on hot dogs, and getting giddy when I can save a [...]

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2003

Wet

I’ve adjusted to most of the weather anomalies of living in Southern Arizona. 110 summers took a while to get used to; 70 degree winters didn’t. Rain is the one I still haven’t adjusted to. Mostly summer rain, monsoon rain. For over half of my life, rain was cold and chilly. It was something generally [...]

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Sunday, July 13th, 2003

Routine

My posts on here have obviously been spartan lately. There are basically two ways in which something gets done with me. It’s routine, or it makes me take care of it. Since a web site can’t really call me at night and complain about feeling neglected, it falls into the routine camp. And it’s a [...]

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