Elise got home from work earlier than we both had expected. We went over to John and Christine’s so that John and I could run wires for the outside speakers.
After a couple hours of intense design, engineering and manual labor, we found that we needed to run the source (John’s iPod) through an amplifier (the [...]

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It’s early Saturday evening. My catering manager wife is at work. Elise is ‘working’ a thirty year high school reunion downtown. She just called me from the kitchen to give me the scoop on her first day. I can tell she’s really excited. She was listing all of the things [...]

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Harold and I went to the circus last night. We left during the intermission. We were both greatly disappointed. It’s not really even worth going into detail. I will admit that it was a feast for the eyes. There was so much going in the center of the Erwin Center [...]

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\It is a great day for the two most important women in my life.
1) Today is my Mom’s birthday. Happy Birthday Mom!!!
2) Elise was offered the Catering Manager position at El Arroyo. Congrats babe. I’m thinking about quitting my job and working on my gut while catching up on daytime talkshows. (I’m [...]

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I’m taking Harold to the circus tonight. It’s being held at the Frank Erwin Center here in Austin. I haven’t been to the circus in something like twenty years. All I can remember is that I was a little dude.
I stood in the box office line yesterday with my vouchers. As [...]

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Being cognizant of our dining out expenditures lately, Elise and I treated ourselves on Friday night and had dinner at El Arroyo. Well, when you’re friends with the new general manager, I guess we didn’t really treat ourselves…
Elise had barbecue chicken tacos, I had a chicken fajita Caesar salad and we had three top [...]

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I was just out on the patio, thinking. I was thinking about our finances and how we really want a house. We’re saving as much as we can. We also need new tires for the Jeep. We’re also going to have to pay more in taxes next year. And then [...]

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Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch… it hurts to type.
I started Tae Kwon Do last night. I hyper extended both elbows and my butt hurts. Badly. My arms hurt because I haven’t really done anything strenuous involving my upper body in nearly a decade. My butt hurts [...]

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It’s pretty flattering when your Mom asks you for your Arrabbiata recipe (I consider my Mom a mighty fine cook):
“While I’m thinking about it, can you give me a hint as to what is in your pasta dish, the one you made Mother’s day weekend? GOOD!!! I bought some prosciutto and plan on making it [...]

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Harold and I went to Blazer Lazer last night for a couple games of Blazer Tag. We had a blast. For the first game, it was every man (pre-pubescent male) for himself. After five minutes of all-out blazing lazer hellfire, I realized that 1) I’m out of shape and 2) pre-pubescent males [...]

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