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Esprit de Corps

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Writing this entry is forcing me even further down a path I started last month, which is framing my recent fight for space in my house as a fight between my teenage self and my today self, the new self that is about to go through a lot of change. Despite what I am about […]

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The Ants and the Cicada & My Squirrel Bite Story

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This was a comment to my friend David, but I thought I’d share it with anyone who reads this. (As always, thank you for reading.) Over the past week and a half, I had to watch the slow dissolution of a cicada that apparently didn’t make it off the sidewalk. Sorry to tell you this […]

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Wayback Machine: 1987

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1987 was a really good year in music. …Nothing Like the Sun, In My Tribe, Document, Meet Danny Wilson, Pop Goes the World, Permanent Vacation, Bucky Fellini, Tango in the Night, Whenever You Need Somebody, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby… OK at the end of that list things start to fall apart. […]

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Custom Kitchen Delivereeeeh!

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I was reminded this morning of the first realization I had that I would never, ever be a computer programmer.* Like many folks in the U.S. at the time, I was stunned to turn on my TV one day to see a totally computer-animated guy moving around appliances in a warehouse or something. Holy shit! […]

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