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Fern Gully on Steroids

2009-12-26T16:53:54Z

I took my family to see Avatar earlier this week. That includes a 14-year-old girl, a 21-year-old boy and parents who are…well, let’s just say were older. Universally, the four of us walked out in agreement that it was a good movie. Although th...

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Bad Banking in a Recession

2009-11-14T20:17:48Z

I went into a bank today to exchange five $20 bills for a $100 bill. The teller was very friendly and quite polite and asked me if I had an account there. I replied that I did not. She proceeded to tell me that they did not exchange money unless ...

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A Cold Day to Ride

2009-10-11T23:09:23Z

This weekend, my buddy Randall and his new wife came down from Dallas and stayed with us. He brought his motorcycle, hoping that we would be able to get out and ride. The weather didn’t look like it was going to cooperate, rain being the theme of...

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It's That Time of Year Again

2009-09-10T14:51:57Z

We’re already into the second week of September and I realize that NaNoWriMo is almost here. That’s right – the National Novel Writing Month. The idea is that you write 50,000 words in the month of November. That comes out to 1,667 words a day an...

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One of the Best Shows I've Seen This Year

2009-07-12T16:02:24Z

Heaven Below is a four-man band that plays hard rock music and hails from Los Angles, California. The band is lead by lead vocalist and guitarist, Patrick Kennison, formally of Union Underground. Drummer Chad Clark, guitarist Jesse Billson, and b...

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

2009-07-06T03:51:29Z

I just got finished reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Nicely done. I've been reading a lot of crappy stuff lately and this book was a very pleasant surprise! I really enjoyed it. I even got on Amazon.com to leave a review. The review i...

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Freakin’ CJ

2009-06-20T02:18:31Z

CJ is a dog. He’s a black lab that used to belong to us, but now resides with Maria’s sister. He’s a good dog, but he’s old and now deaf. And he’s overweight too, but not as much as he was before we inherited him from Maria’s other sister. Yes, h...

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The Last Day of School and Ice Cream

2009-06-06T19:21:56Z

My sister reminded me this week of a tradition we used to have that I’d forgotten about. When I was a kid, I used to ride the bus to school. On the last day of school, the bus would stop at the local Tastee Freeze for ice cream. It was always a b...

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Las Vegas Baby!

2009-05-14T01:13:58Z

Wow. I’ve been to Reno. I’ve been to Lake Tahoe. But I’ve never been to Las Vegas. I was totally unprepared for the experience. Maria has been to Vegas three or four times before, so she knew what to expect, though she discovered a lot of changes...

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The Women’s Restroom

2009-04-29T01:40:59Z

So, I have to ask; how does a boy need to be before it’s not okay to go into the women’s restroom with his mom? Tonight, I swear, I was going into the men’s restroom, and as I was going in, a group of women were coming out of their restroom. Amon...

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