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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 ...
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That question? I don't mean that like it sounds.
See, sometimes I just feel that the DC suburbs aren't me. They're not who I am, how I feel or what I want to be. So then are start thinking about where I am.
One of my favorite places in the world is Wyoming. The mountains just kind of pop ...
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Throughout the past week, Beth - a childhood asthma sufferer - had been having a progressively harder time breathing. By Sunday night, we were both concerned. We called my parents to come over and assume childcare responsibilities (a pretty cherry gig what with them already being asleep and ...
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When I was a kid I never liked going to birthday parties that required either roller or ice skating. I never enjoyed either and loathed the opportunity to fall on my ass in front of other people. Or look like I generally didn't know what I was doing. Yet, on Saturday, all caught up in Olympic ...
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The Weekly Feeling . Anxious.
The Weekly Bonus Feeling . Overwhelmed.
The Weekly Beer . Copper Hook .
The Weekly Time Waster . Play old school Winter Games , Nintendo style.
The Weekly Music . I don't get Vampire Weekend. That makes me feel very old and unhip but I don't quite get ...
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All that thinking I did for yesterday's post? Pretty much sucked me dry. As a result, you'll find nothing socially redeeming, witty or insightful here today. Instead, I present Shit On My Phone. No, you are not invited to relieve yourself on my phone. Instead, this is a collection of random ...
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Back in the ninth grade, my English teacher took a box from a cabinet, hauled it around and from it removed a slim, yellow-covered paperback book, placing one on each of our desks. The title was Catcher In The Rye . Because I really had no concept of what rye was, I just figured it was about ...
