Something Very Bad (the codename that I will use from this point forth; SVB for short) is about to commence in our front yard.
Stage I started two weeks ago with the initial spraying orange dashes (and other technical code) of paint on the sidewalks in front of our house and the digging of a coffin-sized [...]

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My mother-in-law called me out on cracking my neck. It’s really cool, the way I do it. I just jerk my head to either side and am relieved by the sound a feeling of the “krrrkkk, grrrkk, grkk” in the back of my neck. But she pointed out that a 27-year-old coworker [...]

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Elise, her parents, grandma, Maly and I are in Tulsa for Elise’s cousin’s wedding.  We started the day yesterday three hours late for a road trip that was to take all day.  We had a rehearsal dinner to get to at Elise’s aunt and uncle’s house which is 507 miles from our driveway in Austin.
The [...]

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Dear Maly,

You turned 13-months-old today. Your crowning achievement has been that you learned to walk. Your mom and I had very little involvement in this process other than the bewilderment we endured as we witnessed a breathtaking milestone from our little human. Last month you were able to stand for a few [...]

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We had a great time camping at the Pedernales Falls camping grounds last weekend. Photos are here.

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Tool
Waylon Jennings
Metallica
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Coheed & Cambria
Social Distortion
Dinosaur Jr.
ZZ Top
Guns ‘n’ Roses
 Megadeth
That beat-boxing guy from American Idol

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