“The mentality that I had going into interviews was that I didn’t need the job.  It’s kind of like when you like a girl, you don’t show her that you like her, then she wants your nuts real bad.”
“I’m sooo going to go to my next interview and say, “You want these nuts, don’t you?””

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The company is moving the weekend of September 8th.  That’s next Friday.  This week I’ve been training the marketing and IT folks who will be taking over.  Saying that the past few days have been rough is an understatement and coming to the realization that the company will only be around for six more days [...]

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Last Friday we went stargazing at the Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve. We showed up 15 minutes late and joined a raucous group of Adventure Girls, Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve volunteers and two member of the University of Texas Astronomy Club. We viewed Vega and Jupiter from three telescopes just outside the Preserve’s main [...]

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It was previously decided that upon our return from Des Moines on Sunday, we would start putting Maly to sleep in her crib and employ the baby monitor. Up until this point Maly had been sleeping in a cradle that her maternal Grandpa made for her.
I didn’t sleep well that night. Not well [...]

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I took Thursday and Friday of last week off so we could spend a long weekend in Des Moines for Maly’s baptism and to visit with Elise’s family.
Steve and Joanne picked us up from the airport and engulfed Maly in the fighting-for-possession-grandparent-death-hug. It was fun to watch and we couldn’t blame them; they hadn’t [...]

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Dear Maly,
You turned four-months-old this past week. You’ve become such a fun baby. Your personality is really starting to shine through and you’re an absolute blast to be around! Except when you cry. And when you insist on hiding the TiVo remote when Dog the Bounty Hunter is on.

You have reached [...]

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Maly is going to be so enthralled when she’s old enough to realize that her Daddy was so cheap and thought that the free comic books he received in the mail today from the Federal Reserve Bank would be a source of entertainment for years for the entire family!
“Hey, Dad! After we read The [...]

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I’m having a hard time putting into words the way that losing my job has emotionally broken me down. Last Wednesday while at the office I began composing an email to my boss to spill my guts and tell him that this situation has devastated me and that I should get more out of [...]

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Q. What’s better than being retired and sitting in your den with a wet bar, a gun cabinet and dead animals hanging on the wall while watching The Hunting Channel in HDTV?
A. Being retired and sitting in your den with a wet bar, a gun cabinet and dead animals hanging on the wall while watching [...]

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“Hmmpfh, these sour dough English muffins are good!”
“Those aren’t sour dough English muffins.”
“What are they then?”
“Regular English muffins.”
“Ohhhhh.”
“…”
“Ewwwwwww…”

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