You’ve heard me gripe about the ground my house is built on, about how crappy it is and that it’s not suitable for building houses on. Well, it would seem that it’s equally inappropriate for gardening. To look at it, one might think, “Wow, look at all that rich, black soil!” But then you add […]

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It’s settled: I’m going to hell. Forget the fact that I’ve just had surgery and cannot lift more than 20 lbs. Let’s just forget that all together. Because the little old ladies at Target yesterday who stood by watching as I instructed my 67-year-old mother-in-law which 50 lb. bag of dog food I wanted her […]

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Well friends, I’m now less of a man than I was the last time we spoke. Literally. I’m now missing one gallbladder. Surgery was flawless. I remember being wheeled into the operating room and the next thing I knew I was in recovery. There was a woman next to me in a great deal of […]

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Does anyone have any idea 1) what language this is and 2) (more importantly) what the heck it says? I tried passing it through Google’s language tool thinking it was German but no such luck - my guess is it’s Dutch. It appears that a message board, http://www.zattevrienden.be/, linked to my Beard-O-Meter (because, you know, […]

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Happy Chinese New Year!

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Surgery it is. The surgeon is wicked nice. He said because of my build (150 soaking wet), he’ll probably only have to make three incisions instead of four. He said he believes my gallbladder has failed because of disease in the cystic duct. He says he’s been documenting this for some time and may publish […]

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Subject: Request from the Sunshines
From: Sandy Briley
Date: Fri, February 4, 2005 9:05 am
To: “Parents of UTCCC”
The Sunshines need 40 two liter soda bottles (empty please!) to make
jet packs for their rocket ship. You can give them to Mari or leave
them in my office. Thanks!

Awesome.

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I didn’t watch the state of the union tonight. I’m a lousy American, I know. However, I’m fairly confident he didn’t say anything particularly original or new. (One trick ponies are predictable that way.) Instead, I spent my evening listenting to Jim Wallis at Book People. He told some great stories that I’ll try to […]

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Remember a while back I was looking for a church around work where I could go and sit and listen during the week? I’ve had real trouble finding a place. They’re all locked up during the week. Even St. Mary’s Catholic Church is locked. I thought there was some holy rule that Catholic churches had […]

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We spent the better part of Sunday afternoon in the emergency room. When I called my mom last night to tell her, her immediate response was, “Oh no, what did Gabriel do?” It’s sad, but true. Anyone who knows him agrees that he has no fear. As a result, we all have a sort of […]

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