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The Weekly Physical Condition . I gave my son life and he gave me his cold. It hardly seems right. Good thing he's cute since Mia's the only one of us who's slept the past four days.
The Weekly Awesome Video . One guy, one duet, a bazillion television theme songs. Check it out .
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I heard a news story the other day about obesity and diabetes that was pretty scary. So I started digging around the internetwebosphere to find more information. Here's what I found.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention undertakes a regular study to pulse-check the health habits of ...
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Growing pains
The house I grew up in was pretty much a normal, everyday colonial deep in the heart of Texas. The master bedroom was downstairs, my room up. Across from my room was a TV room that I used to sneak into in the middle of the night and, on weekends - since these were the days of four channels - ...
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I have learned many lessons being a dad but it seems like the last few weeks have been packed with learning opportunities. Here's my latest batch of lessons learned.
#5931 - When your son looks exactly like your dad, it's nice. But strange. Especially when you see your mini-dad picking his ...
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This weekend, Mia blew me away. Saturday marked her debut stage performance and she was beautiful, composed, and awesome.
My daughter is amazing. I know I'm obligated to say that. I'm her dad. But I really, truly mean it. Mia started ballet for the sole purpose of hanging out with her BFF. ...
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The Weekly Beer . Smuttynose IPA
The Weekly Non-Alcoholic Beverage . Vitamin Water Connected
The Weekly Time Waster . Factory Balls 3
The Weekly Read . The Serialist is David Gordon's first novel. It's one of the more unusual, striking books I've read in a very long time. I can't ...
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Internets, I have a bit of a guilty conscience and have had for some time. I think I have to come clean.
I wrote at least once last week about the hours - or lack thereof - available to me in the day. I think we all came to the collective conclusion that more hours wouldn't necessarily be a ...
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All parents think their children are brilliant. I'm no exception. I'm obliged to think it and say it but I truly believe my daughter is pretty damn smart. I say this, in part, because she's flying through books and the ones that interest her are way out of her target demographic. We've reached ...
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Dr. Oz
Harry Potter
Though it often seems much longer ago, a little over a year has passed since Barack Obama took the oath of office after riding a tidal wave of buzzwords like hope and change into Washington. I personally hoped he'd be able to deliver but, objectively speaking, it's impossible to tell since the ...
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I worked an insane schedule over the past two weeks - including a weekend - and that totally threw me and the family for a loop. Everything felt off-kilter. So I took Thursday and Friday off to see what I could do about re-kiltering everything. My goal? Decompress and have an awesome time with ...
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The Weekly Computer Application That Drove Me Crazy . Microsoft Word.
The Weekly Time Waster . Contrapunctus
The Weekly Read . This week - in between working and working and working - I took on David Ignatius' The Increment . The verdict? Not half bad. I was expecting a hard-boiled ...
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The other night around 10:30, I walked out of my office and thought huh, despite the fact that I just worked a 14 hour day, the day sure as hell seemed short . And now I know why:
The massive earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth's axis and created shorter days, ...
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I was reading the other day and I got a papercut. Hurt like a sonofabitch but then I realized that if technology keeps marching on, the days of book-caused papercuts could be nearing an end. Unless people start strapping machetes to their Kindles or something.
I'm a reader. Duh. I love to ...
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As I mentioned yesterday, I've been working my ass off on any number of things which has made me overly sensitive to the fact that my kids want to hang out with me and, what with the working, haven't really been able to. Like Sunday afternoon, when I was on the phone with a colleague. When I'm ...
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Let's see...this weekend was, by definition, 48 hours long. And of those 48 hours, I spent approximately 20 of them working. This thrilled me to no end (and left me just ever-so-slightly sarcastic). Since I've been dealing with spreadsheets all weekend, it only makes sense that I'd breakdown my ...
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The Weekly Mood . Spent.
The Weekly Beer . Kona Brewing Longboard Lager.
The Weekly Oddly Compelling Sporting Event . Curling.
The Weekly Read . I've never read much Hemingway. After my Catcher In The Rye adventure, I thought I'd take another spin through the classics, found an old ...
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The Cactus Bathroom Curse (though is it really a curse?) strikes again.
Yesterday afternoon I was in a stall doing, well, you know...and someone came into the bathroom and entered a nearby but not adjacent stall. And apparently he had no idea I was there.
Stall Dude : Hi honey. I have a ...
