April 2008 Forty posts

• 20-Apr-2008

  
  Welcome to Thunderdome! Tyler is 15 now and has been playing competitive league basketball pretty much for 4 years I think. He’s been playing football even longer. He’s on the High School Freshman teams for both. Anyway, yesterday I took Tyler out to his basketball games in Santa Barbara. It was a pretty good time overall. Ty reminds...

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• 18-Apr-2008

  
  Kids, younger Took this photo with my phone this morning at the old house. It’s of an old, faded photo in a dilapidated frame. This shot by Leah is from a bit before I knew them — I think. They are so tiny! They’re now all between 13 and 19 years old and look quite different. Three...

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• 18-Apr-2008
  Free Simi Valley E-Waste Collection At the mall, today and tomorrow. I have two monitors I’m looking forward to getting rid of. Simi Valley Town Center Press Releases Simi Valley Town Center will again host an E-wast collection on Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19. The event will be from 9am to 3pm both days. Residents and Businesses are...

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• 17-Apr-2008
  Adventures on the Work Phone Number Setting: MY WORK PHONE RINGS. Background: PEOPLE HERE COME TO MY DESK, USE IM, OR USE EMAIL. RECRUITERS ON THE OTHER HAND FIND MY RESUME, USE THE CORPORATE DIRECTORY TO TRACK ME DOWN, AND CALL. I HATE THIS, BUT WHAT CAN I DO, NOT ANSWER MY PHONE?) Recruiter: “Hi Joe, I’m [redacted] from [redacted] we...

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• 17-Apr-2008
  Bible Reading of the Day; Mom From my Mom — it’s Matthew 6:25-34. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not...

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• 16-Apr-2008

  
  Iron Man… the cup! I actually followed the Iron Man comic for a few years back in the mid-to-late 1980s, so I’m a fan. And it was a hot day, so I splurged on this collectible. A bit of fun, and the Slurpee was delicious.

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• 16-Apr-2008
  Tax Day Was Yesterday And Today I Am Not Dead My day started yesterday with my aunt calling me at 7:30am and calling me a “goober.” And it’s true, Leah and I, especially me, were not prepared for what we knew was coming in the way we needed to be. We had done some good work, but our move kept getting prioritized above doing the...

  moneytaxes
• 15-Apr-2008
  Boøwy: Plastic Bomb https://youtube.com/watch?v=CmCWdLkApec Boøwy was a Japanese rock group consisting of Kyosuke Himuro (vocals), Tomoyasu Hotei (guitar), Tsunematsu Matsui (bass) and Makoto Takahashi (drums). They were a rock band that reached legendary status in Japan during the 1980s. Their style of play varied from punk to pop rock and they had fans of all ages. The 1990s...

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• 15-Apr-2008
  Breakdancing Kid on Mr. Rogers https://youtube.com/watch?v=xatZgEZ62fU via vintage_ads

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• 14-Apr-2008
  Barnett and Kunstler on Obama’s Impolitic Words Two iconoclastic thinkers who I think would usually disagree (Barnett is an optimist/realist; Kunstler is nearly apocalypticist) are in complete agreement! This is a nice surprise. James Kunstler (foul language, sorry): Barack Obama caught hell last week for daring to tell the truth about the ragged thing that the American spirit has become. He said...

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