Archive for August, 2003
Saturday, August 23rd, 2003
Mixed Messages
Yesterday a friend I don’t see very often asked me if I had lost weight. Today someone asked me if I was Louie Anderson.
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Thursday, August 21st, 2003
Joy
Without a doubt, kids are the source of some of the purest joy in the universe. Today my daughter came barreling out of her room exclaiming, ‘Daddy! Daddy! I know what we can do today! We can go to the WADING POOL!’ She was both ecstatic she had come up with the idea and thrilled [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2003
Courtesy and Stupidity
Today I drove around the Costco parking lot while the kids slept in the back and my wife ran in for something. For whatever reason, the place was overflowing with people. There were cars to the hilt, it was so bad there was even parking lot stalking going on. Having nothing better to do, I [...]
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Thursday, August 14th, 2003
Lists
Right now I’m reading The Devil Problem and Other True Storie and Other True Stories by David Remnick. Before that I read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Before that About a Boy, Nick Hornby. Then How To Be Good, The Alienist, Robots of Dawn, The Robot Novels, Space, Once and Future Kinq, Robin Hood, The [...]
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Thursday, August 14th, 2003
Cabeza Grande
My son has let me down for the first time in his life. At his 18 month checkup he fell below the 90th percentile for head size. *sigh*