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The backyard starts to take shape, sort of
Progress of a sort is being made in our latest attempt to spend every cent we earn (no I’m not bitter, really). The backyard is still a big pile of dirt, which Mia is certainly enjoying. She has undertaken digging to China, to all appearances, and in pursuit of this goal has three pretty sizable
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Actually Romeo & Juliet was a comedy. You just have to look at it from the right angle
Here’s a great idea: take an author suffering from writer’s block, put him in the middle of nowhere with his neglected wife and cute-as-a-button son. What do you get? Well, if you’re Stanley Kubrick, you get The Shining, a psychological drama/horror film. If you’re Nora Ephron, you’d get Shining, a romantic dramedy. At least that’s
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Sadly it looks like Thomas Wolfe was right
I have been enjoying the month of September. In particular, I have been enjoying the month of September becuase I have not had to show my face at my place of work. Yes, I had a whole month of vacation from my regular job. My POW gives us health insurance and pays into our retirement.
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Born to run
Wonder what sort of romantic activity we get up to on Saturday nights? Well, this past Saturday night we hit the streets of L.A. for the Nike Run Hit Wonder 5K/10K race. The race started on Exposition Boulevard, right between the Exposition Park Rose Garden and USC. The course ran down Figueroa to Venice, then
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The road goes ever on
So the last day of our vacation in Oregon was spent visiting the Whitman Mission and a winery in Walla Walla. The Wihitman Mission was built originally in thee 1830’s by Stuart and Narcissa Whitman, Presbyterian missionaries come West to convert the heathens (the native Cayuse). The mission eventually became a waypoint on the Oregon
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Seems about right to me…
Hey kids! Did you know that if you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush? So what’s wrong with that, you ask? It’s actually a case of googlebombing. Seems more like the honest truth to
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