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The Worst Day Ever
Eric’s Archived Thoughts: The Truth. Follow up to Horror Story. The brain cancer effecting Eric’s kid has returned, in force and is now inoperable and otherwise untreatable. Today, in the most gentle way possible, he and his wife had the crushing task of tell their 5 year old child that they are going to die…
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More New Shoes
Jilly beats the snot of her shoes. We have yet to find velcro straps that she can’t destroy. So, it was time for another trip to Stride Rite. Yeah, Stide-Rites are crazy expensive (these cost $10 more than the last pair of shoes I bought for myself) but I will testify they’re well built. Luke…
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I Hate Folding Clothes
Especially kids clothes. But I figured out recently that using the kitchen table for sorting and folding makes things go much faster. Even better is watching some Dirty Jobs re-runs on Netflix on the iPad during the process.
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Superman with a GoPro
Fun stuff!
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Dirty Vows
Minister provides analogies between Dirty Jobs and a successful marriage… via
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Eye of the Tiger
as played on a dot matrix printer… “Eye of the tiger” on dot matrix printer from MIDIDesaster on Vimeo.
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Kid Boots
These are my son’s winter boots. Warm, easy get on and off, and rugged. Unfortunately, the aggressive tread pattern on the bottom retains about 2 pounds of snow in each boot, when entering the car or the house.
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Is Today a Snow Day?
Nice writeup on one superintendent’s process. Is Today a Snow Day? How Superintendents Decide School Off Days | TIME.com. As many folks have heard me recant, in my public school days, from 6th grade until 12th grade, they had exactly one snow day in the Utica School District. There were a lot of days when…
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On the off chance…
that you haven’t seen this viral video of guys free climbing on top of a giant tower crane in Shanghai, here you go:
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The Story Behind the Toothpick Sculptures at the MOST
I spent a lot of time enjoying the fantastically intricate toothpick sculptures at the MOST while waiting for the Mountain Goat training runs to start up a few springs ago. I never got the full story until spotting this article on Make recently. Pure awesome.