Life

Blog posts about life, art, and everything.

Chives

Chives

May 30, 2015 | Blog

I’d like to take a moment to talk about these chives.

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Lender bender

Lender bender

May 16, 2015 | Blog

The bank gave us a better mortgage rate after I misremembered the offer from a competing lender as lower than it actually was. I am the Accidental Negotiator!

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Lawn care less

Lawn care less

May 14, 2015 | Blog

Lawn mower has a new battery, oil change, new spark plugs, new air filter, sharpened blades, and inflated tires. Bought a new grass trimmer today, too. So now I can cut the lawn, you know, ugh, whenever. I don’t know. Sometime?

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Jazzy Iron Maiden

Jazzy Iron Maiden

April 27, 2015 | Blog

Sometimes I like to whistle jazzy versions of Iron Maiden songs because I blew out 3 tons of crusty mucus through my nose at 4:30 this morning and that’s the sort of thing you do when your brain is remote viewing Mars on a work day.

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Hero to mail carriers everywhere, no doubt

Hero to mail carriers everywhere, no doubt

April 15, 2015 | Blog

In the five years we’ve been here Canada Post has never inspected our mail box, because if they had, we would’ve got this notice that the mailbox post is too tall long before now.

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New sump pump day!

New sump pump day!

April 9, 2015 | Blog

It’s new sump pump day! Celebrate by sleeping through the night without hearing clickclickclickclickclick or brrrrrrrrrrrrrssssssshhhhhhhppppttttttttt or brrrrsht THUNK THUNK coming from your (not nearly old enough) pos sump pump every 30 seconds all night long. May all your basements be dry. HAPPY NEW SUMP PUMP DAY!

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Who brought the dog?

Who brought the dog?

March 23, 2015 | Blog

The girls have been watching Ghostbusters in 1/2 hour chunks before bedtime for the past few nights, and now the 3 year old is periodically repeating the line “Okay, who brought the dog?” and I’m pretty sure that’s the best thing ever.

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Parenting on snow days

Parenting on snow days

February 2, 2015 | Blog

An attractive young couple asked me what kids are like on snow days.

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Douglas Adams on perspective

Douglas Adams on perspective

December 24, 2014 | Blog

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. Douglas Adams

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Kurt Vonnegut on profanity

Kurt Vonnegut on profanity

December 11, 2014 | Blog

…profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their eyes and ears to you. Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus That and “know your audience” were the two morsels of fatherly wisdom I served up last night. BOOM MOTHERFUCKERS.

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