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Yesterday was my birthday. John, Christine, Elise and I went to Sushi Saké for dinner. The eel was really good. I’m eeled out for the year. We split an order of Dragon, Kyoto and Spicy Susan (or as Christine calls it: Lazy-Eyed Susan. Or as Elise calls it: Chunky Dunk [...]

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Elise and I started packing over the weekend. Moving is a good excuse to throw crap away. We close on our new house at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. We’ll probably start moving some stuff over that night, then continue on Thursday evening. My parents are coming up this weekend to help [...]

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I nervously woke up on Saturday morning followed my standard morning ritual of showering, etc. I took Elise to work at 9 a.m. and then went to the TKD school to test for the first time in almost ten years! Everything went smoothly. Steve, Cindy (couple in my class) and Clyde (instructor) [...]

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SprintPCS is running a special until 1/31/04: new signups will receive unlimited nighttime calls starting at 7 p.m. My unlimited nighttime calls start at 9 p.m. As I grow older, I don’t like to wait until 9 p.m. to make long distance calls.
I called SprintPCS today, waited on hold for 15 minutes and finally spoke [...]

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This past Monday Elise and I were lucky enough to be the first guests in John and Christine’s new house (they closed on the house that morning). We celebrated by standing in the kitchen, eating Freebirds burritos and drinking wine from plastic cups by the light of a flashlight

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I’ve been busy as of late and haven’t had time to document life. Last Friday, I don’t think we did anything. I woke up on Saturday and cleaned the Jeep. I loaded up the old factory tires and wheels that I sold on eBay and headed to Brenham to 1) deliver the [...]

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Mickey just reminded me that today is my one year anniversary at Wellness Works. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been back in Austin for over a year now.
What’s really funny is this time last year, I was having excrutiating back pains. The same is true as I write this. I was putting the back [...]

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Elise and I watched a rerun of The Tonight Show last night. Madonna was the main attraction. She spoke about her religion, Kabbalah. I don’t look to celebrities for spiritual guidance, but what she said of Kabbalah was interesting. I know nothing about Kabbalah but from what I gathered, it’s a [...]

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This afternoon I was contemplating life, liberty and the pursuit of a regular intake of fiber when I was somehow reminded of a feeling that I haven’t had in a long time. No, not the one associated with a lack of fiber. I remembered a feeling that I used to get when I [...]

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