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NaNoWriMo – I salute you

October 31, 2010

There’s beauty in accomplishment. Whether it’s raising a child, owning a business, completing an athletic feat or finally finishing a degree, the feeling that accompanies such a feat is tremendous. Food tastes better. Little things aren’t as annoying. Life’s challenges seem easier. There’s no reason to do anything if you’re not going to give it [...]

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Never have I ever

October 20, 2010

I can always count on my allergies flaring up every time I move, change climates or pretty much make any change in my lifestyle whatsoever. My move to Chandler didn’t disappoint, ‘though I’m sure the farmer dragging dirt around on the soon-to-be cornfield next door isn’t helping much. Since I’ve never lived in the East [...]

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God damn that Paul Carr

September 13, 2010

If you know who Paul Carr is, you’ll have no trouble with my following references. If you don’t, you should. If you don’t and refuse to, well, I can’t help you. Go knit something. Carr quit drinking last October. He quit Twitter last month. For a while, I thought that neither would bother me, because [...]

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What is your awesome?

September 11, 2010

This is mine. This is my awesome. What’s yours?

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Holy crap, I buzzed my head on the lowest setting

August 26, 2010

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Surprise 40th Wedding Anniversary

August 25, 2010

Getting married is easy. Staying married seems much harder. In a time when around half of all couples get divorced, the ability to get married, buy a house, raise kids, start and close a small business and work as an independent salesman (my dad) or work as a career specialist for two high schools (my [...]

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That one night in Corvallis

August 19, 2010

(I started telling this story a few days ago at My Night in Corvallis.) Where was I? The girls showed up? Cool. And then the girls showed up. I’m not sure what time it was or how long I’d been in there at that point, but I do know that I hadn’t stood up in [...]

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No, not FunkYtown, I said funk town

August 15, 2010

There are worse things than being in a funk. You could be severely injured, terminally ill, comatose, or, in my case, aware that you’re in a slump while still being in that funk. Like a realized dream that you can’t quite control and can’t quite wake up from, this awareness feels like a bored sports [...]

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My night in Corvallis (Setting the stage)

August 12, 2010

(I urge everyone to drink responsibly, i.e. in no way similar to how I used to. It hurts. But if you do, make it count.) There’s plenty of drinking nights that I regret, ‘though I can’t always say exactly what, because I don’t remember most of them. Yep, I black out. Or used to, I [...]

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One night in Corvallis

August 9, 2010

There are a ton of cool perks you get as student manager for a college baseball team. Ready access to high-quality sporting equipment, access to the very expensive sport facilities and a relationship of sorts with the student-athletes you’re helping out. A position like this can be a dream come true for life-long baseball fans [...]

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