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Tree Trimming!

Oh, the joys of home ownership…. Yesterday, one of the big tree branches out front came down, so Steph and the Old Man bought a chain-saw-on a stick and Steph’s brother Josh came down for the day and made an afternoon of it. Josh is real excited by this manly stuff… But that chainsaw-on-a-stick is […]

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Rosetta Stone

I’ve been trying out the demo CD for the Rosetta Stone language software; the demo comes with sampel exercises for all 30 languages that Rosetta Stone covers. I’m most interested in the French and Arabic, so I’ve been spending some time last night and this morning running through those. For the beaucoup bucks that they

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Epiphany

When I was in the fourth grade, I had a terrible crush on a guy named Aaron. Aaron was the realization of all of my preconceptions about what a good boy should be. He was tall and blond and blue eyed and played basketball and read Stephen King novels. My stomach twisted and my heart

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Quote of the Day

From the gyno at PP: “Going to the ER as a woman with pelvic pain is like showing up at Planned Parenthood with a heart attack. They might understand there’s a problem, but they’re not really knowledgeable or equipped enough to do anything useful about it.” Ain’t that the truth.

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Splenda Carcinogens!

I was in the breakroom this morning dumping Splenda into my coffee, and one my coworkers said, “Ah, another one who takes a little coffee with their sugar.” “Oh yeah,” I said. “I once went out to coffee with a friend who wanted to try the roast I was using, and when she took a

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