Elise and I left Friday afternoon and drove the 494 miles to Okeene, Oklahoma for the annual Thanksgiving weekend at Grandma Boeckman’s farm house. Elise’s dad is the oldest of nine siblings. That makes for a lot of people under one roof.
Friday nights at Grandma B.’s have been consistent in the five years [...]

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My boss’s 10-year-old stepdaughter comes to the office every day around 4 p.m. after school lets out. I make it a point to visit with her for a couple minutes because she’s a really sweet kid. Except for today.
I hadn’t seen her in a while and when I did today, this was our [...]

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I’m laying on the couch, one eye is trying to go to sleep, the other is watching the Bears and Cowboys game.
Elise and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner for my parents this year at our house. We had a Cajun fried turkey, wasabi mashed potatoes, Monterey Jack green bean cassarole, stuffing, biscuits and butter lettuce [...]

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John and Christine came over Monday evening because we try to get together once a week to have dinner. Monday’s get together was thrown together last minute. While driving home from work, I called Elise to tell her that John and Christine were coming over at 7:30. I asked if she would [...]

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John Robert Engler, Jr. was born today at 3:45 p.m. at St. David’s Hospital in Austin. A gorgeous 7 pound 2 ounce baby boy with a head full of hair. I’m so excited for John and Christine right now. You can see more photos here.

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Elise is a manager who happens to work late nights and weekends. This provides her with the opportunity to sleep in on weekdays every so often. She has taken a liking to the hit television show Dawson’s Creek. I slept in earlier this week because I was up until 3 a.m. trying [...]

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Elise and I went to the Good Charlotte concert last night. So did a lot of parents. I had no clue GC was a pop boy band. Little girls were running rampant in the Austin Music Hall. By boy band I don’t mean N’Sync - Good Charlotte is more punk/rock but [...]

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My meeting this morning wasn’t bad at all. I slept like crap last night though. My boss is straight-to-the-point: “We’ll get it fixed. Now go fix it.”
In other biological news: On Tuesday, Clyde and I had our regular two sessions of sparring. We decided it would be [...]

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I came home from work this evening and logged on to my work computer to, well, work. I got an e-mail from my boss. I have a “first thing tomorrow a.m.” meeting per his request. It’s not going to be a good meeting.
This is after I got a response from a sales [...]

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I had a weird dream this morning just before the alarm sounded. I was walking down a busy street just past dawn when I suddenly turned into a variation of Wolverine. I screamed and stammered violently down the street. I became extremely hungry. I walked into an animal shelter and with [...]

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