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Hard sell

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I suppose that some people are easily swayed by TV commercials, promotional gimmicks, magazine ads, pushy salespeople and the like.  Unfortunately for the marketing world at large, I am not one of these people.
Scene:  At home, around 9:15 p.m. on a weeknight.  My cell phone rings, from a number I don’t recognize.  I answer anyway.
Local cable [...]

Of all the things to take for granted

Monday, February 1st, 2010

I was reading this post of Swistle’s and it (and the comments) got me thinking.
I have never lived in a house (or apartment) without a dishwasher.  I mean, yeah, I lived in the dorm my freshman year of college, but there was a dining hall so it wasn’t like I was doing a lot of [...]

More of a stream of consciousness, really

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

It’s been one of those weeks so far, y’all.  And it’s only Wednesday.  It started on Friday night, when we accidentally stole a dog, and continued on Sunday when I broke the sink, and then work is killer (shocking!) and then I sat down to write this and realized that I really don’t have a [...]

Friday Randomness

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Today after work I’m leaving for Houston to visit my sister and even though I’ve been working working working like a busy little bee, today is still dragging.  So I give you Friday Randomness, something I haven’t done in a while.
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AE lost his first tooth yesterday!  It took a little assistance from my fingernail (much [...]

Day #2 – Productivity Abounds

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

So far today, I have done the following (with AE in tow, of course, except for the items remotely related to cleaning in any way):