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Not Just for Reading: January 2010
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Not Just for Reading. Tuesday, January 26, 2010. 7: Wrap It Up. Last week my wife turned 39. Tell anyone that you are thirty-nine and their first thought is “Right…looks like we’ve got us a liar.” Same thing goes for 29. A person can claim 28, 33, or 37 all day long and no one will question it. But if you toss out that you’re 39 everyone instantly assumes that you are no less than 43. I think back to birthday parties when I was a kid. I would guess that at a standard 9 year-olds birthday party 53% of...
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Not Just for Reading: #5: Steward of the Earth
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Not Just for Reading. Wednesday, January 13, 2010. 5: Steward of the Earth. In all honesty, I think recycling is a great thing, even if in some cases it expends more energy to recycle old than to create new. And on top of that, I get be a pompous ass whenever people are over to the house. “Oh, don’t throw that away. Then a thought hit me; getting the Wall Street Journal actually allows me to recycle. How is that for an oxymoron? Needless to say, I am destined for Washington D.C. View my complete profile.
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Not Just for Reading: #8: Creating Future Scrabble Champions
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Not Just for Reading. Tuesday, February 2, 2010. 8: Creating Future Scrabble Champions. I vaguely remember taking spelling tests in grade school, but that is about the extent of it. I also recall my spelling score on the 11th grade achievement test being “Below 8th Grade Level”…but we won’t let the kids know that little secret. Gentle people injured unless poodle arrives underneath bleachers. Leave million outside window before tuesday arrives. What exactly are they learning from this? John Hansen owns m...
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Not Just for Reading: #6: Electrified Glory
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Not Just for Reading. Sunday, January 17, 2010. Today I finally got around to taking down the outdoor Christmas decorations. That’s right; we’ve been one of “those” families this year. Our plastic Santa and Rudolph (from the 1950’s) waved to passersby until January 17th! What is it about taking down Christmas decorations? As one would expect, our New Year’s Eve was a rockin’ good time. We overate and played the Wii until 10:15 when my wife and I notified the kids to wake us up at 11:40...Like a cheap ...
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Not Just for Reading: #2: Guinea Pig Cages
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Not Just for Reading. Sunday, January 3, 2010. 2: Guinea Pig Cages. Last summer my kids managed to Shanghai their way into getting a Guinea Pig. I am not going to go into the particular details of the process, but it involved pig-sitting for a week, a guilt-ridden neighbor boy, and lots of tears and pleading. I reluctantly agreed to the transfer of custody on two conditions; I will never touch the animal and I will not take care of him. Use #2: Lining Guinea Pig cages. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Not Just for Reading: #1: Oil Change
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Not Just for Reading. Sunday, January 3, 2010. I have gotten the Wall Street Journal for two years. In the beginning the love affair was strong and I was a faithful reader. As time went on other things took precedence and I fell to just reading the Opinion and Editorial sections. Now I just pick up the paper and toss it into the trunk of my car where I warehouse it until recycling day. I need to digress and explain that when I do work around the house I have different levels of old clothes. The botto...
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Not Just for Reading: #10: Collections
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Not Just for Reading. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Like most Americans I tend to accumulate junk. I don’t know how it happens, but it just does. One day you graduate from college, load everything you own in the backseat of your car, and set out on the great adventure known as life. Two years later it takes a tractor trailer and three former college linemen to move all of your crap across town. In the process perhaps my largest collection, useless information stored in my brain, flashed something across my ...
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Not Just for Reading: #12: Image Is Everything
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Not Just for Reading. Sunday, July 18, 2010. 12: Image Is Everything. Long ago there was a time without cell phones. I know, many of you just blasted cheerios and root beer all over your monitor, but I tell you it is true. During this time, people were forced into unconformable situations such as having face-to-face conversations with strangers. Can you imagine having to interact with people? 8221; into the business end of an electronic brick and everyone would ohh and ahh over his importance. Like the B...
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Not Just for Reading: #3: Fire Starters
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Not Just for Reading. Wednesday, January 6, 2010. Something strange happened on December 24th. I went to bed the night before in Oklahoma and managed to wake up in North Dakota. I guess Old Man Winter decided to take a trip south and something along his route made him angry. The weather Christmas Eve day started out bad and got worse. We even had a blizzard by the time it was over! Back in Wisconsin…” You know the rest. Now I’ve hit my mid thirties and have decided that the cold is ...It’s hard to ...
