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I concede defeat: I have totally failed my NaBloPoMo challenge.  FAILED.  I should have applied Han Solo’s advice when he said, ‘Don’t get cocky!’  I did get cocky.  I thought writing a post every day would be EASY.  But I learned that the challenge is having the daily deadline hanging over your head.  It saps [...]

My beautiful wife and I decided not to go to my sister’s house for Thanksgiving this year.  This was a break in a 15-year tradition for me, but it reflects how my family is changing.  Socko and HB (my older kids) were with their Mom for Thanksgiving, so we decided to start our own turkey [...]

The Stellar Sprite’s Keeper’s Spin Cycle this week is giving thanks.  As a dedication to Jen this week, I submit the following poem.
A Thanksgiving Poem
I’m thankful for my beautiful wife
Whose boundless love is the core of my life.
I’m thankful for parents who adopted and raised me
And instilled good work ethics - how not to be [...]

There’s a magical, mysterious point in time when a relationship develops between siblings.   For good, bad, or even indifferent, that bond happens, often unnoticed until its already established, cemented in its course for a lifetime.
My wife caught our daughters’ moment on video.  I don’t think we have to worry about indifferent.
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Yesterday I noticed that my Google Reader looks a little different than my blog roll.  There seem to be quite a few blogs that I read every single day that are not represented here.  That seems wrong.   So, today is blog maintenance day.  I’m going to add my ‘regular reads’.
If you want to be on [...]

I admit I don’t understand the phenomenon that is Twilight, but pop culture has already coined the term ‘Twilight Mom’ for the women that take their thirteen-year-old daughters to see this movie.  I don’t think the term is meant to be derisive.  I do think that you have to temporarily forget you are a grown [...]

Thanks to everyone for your amazing comments.  I absolutely LOVE the fact that you are funnier than I am.  I really appreciate your support during this Hell difficult month of NaNuNaNu.  I’m sure you’ll be even happier than I am when it’s over.
Star Trek has had a profound effect on our culture.  Speaking in William [...]

Isn’t it pathetic awful gruesome funny how writing a post every day can create arbitrary pressure that sucks the life out of you makes writing a post more challenging?  Heh, I think so.
I’ve been getting writer’s block every single night.  On Sunday, I panicked into creating a giant shrine in my back yard to Jen [...]

When I was in high school, I studied classical piano.  I attended the local Guild Auditions, and even made it as far as the regional competition my senior year playing Chopin’s Nocturne in C# Minor.  Maybe someday I’ll dust it off and play it here.  I studied piano when I went to college.   Naturally, I’ve [...]

The Scintillating Sprite’s Keeper’s Spin Cycle - wait.  Hold on.  I’m gonna go get the Spin Cycle badge for my sidebar and display it properly.  I’ve been doing the Spin for about a year now, or at least a month - I think it’s time.  Be right back.
[Elevator music version of Dude (Looks Like a [...]

First of all, a huge THANKS to all you of you for your comments and well-wishes for yesterday.  The party I attended Saturday night was everything I thought it would be - lots of beer, whiskey, people passing out on the couch, and loud music.  Pretty boring for anyone staying sober through it all.  Which [...]

I’m at a party right now.  Well, technically, I’m going to a party, but I’ve set this post to publish while I’m there.  I’m a little freaked out: I haven’t gone to a ‘real’ party in a long, long time.  My beautiful wife is staying home with the girls while I’m out at my new [...]

[UPDATE: D'oh.  Apparently you had to have already started a book to get the deadline extension.  My apologies.   I clicked the link this morning and the offer for new orders appears to be over.  If you had already started a book order, you got this email:
If you are getting this email there is a credit [...]

A number of years ago, I used to eat lunch at work every day with two colleagues at my office.  One of them (’L’) would bring a copy of The Everett Herald into work every day.  ‘B’ and I would meet him for lunch in our break room at noon sharp, and we would read [...]

Due to a Wordpress snafu (well, actually my snafu), my server date was wrong for my last post.  My birthday is today, November 12th.  Was today, as its very nearly over.  My post last night, which appeared to post early this morning, may have led everyone to believe that my birthday is November 13.  I [...]

It’s my birthday tomorrow!  I’m forcing myself to recognize this fact, and I’m trying to embrace it.  After a certain age, having more birthdays loses a little of the ‘fun’ factor.  I’ve already hit most of the ‘milestone’ years: thirteen (a teenager), eighteen (a ‘man’), twenty-one (an ‘adult’), forty (’over the hill’).  My last two [...]

The Supreme Sprite’s Keeper’s Spin Cycle is relaxation this week.  This is a tough topic for me, but I’m going to give it my best shot.  I’ve got about ten minutes to finish this blog post, before I spend some time with my wife, watch TV, catch up on where my son is right now, [...]

My beautiful wife has skills.  She’s beautiful, of course, but that’s not a skill, and something she does all day without trying.  But she also has skills.  Mad skills.  Scary skills.  Especially in the area of Mommyhood.  At first, I thought it was a European (or German) thing.  Maybe some wisdom of the ‘old country’ [...]

I’m participating in NaBloPoMo, and it’s almost midnight on Saturday night.  I don’t have a post yet.  In fact, I’ve got nothing.  I guess this is the point of the exercise - to be able to write against a deadline, even if all you have is undiluted crap to lay down on the page.  Well, [...]

OK, I admit it.  I read the whole Twilight series.  I’ll even admit I really liked the books.  I like vampire stories in general, and Stephanie Meyer’s treatment, while not assigning any shockingly original attributes to her vampires, is palatable.  The main draw is Bella, a girl who is blithely unaware of herself in every [...]

Pseudonymous High School Teacher, or phhhst as her name is more easily typed, gave me an award!  Woo hoo!  This is my second award, and I’m as tickled as our one-year-old learning to walk.   Which is a horrifying combination of cute and utterly dangerous at the same time.  I should mention at this juncture that [...]

Dear Heather,
Hi! This is Goodfather (http://goodfatherblog.com). I’m just checking in about the little contest you had for naming your friend’s dog (Basie). I know it was a little while ago (over a month), but I thought that maybe you hadn’t received my email with my name and address. Well, actually there [...]

The Sanguine Sprite’s Keeper’s Spin Cycle this week is politics.  I’m not a political blogger.  My blog is not a political blog (by any stretch of the imagination).  Frankly, I don’t want to blog about politics or religion as they are naturally divisive subjects that tend to alienate people and create controversy.  However, I do [...]

I’m a revisionist.  I admit it.  It’s not quite as hard as admitting that you’re an alcoholic, or that you secretly use Olay® Age Defying Daily Renewal Cream in a vain attempt to stave off middle age as a guy, or that you blog for the thrill of incessant, immediate feedback.  Nope.  Nothing like that.  [...]

OK, I’m on the bandwagon.  I’m going to write a post every single day of the month of November.  It’s a challenge put out by NaBloPoMo.  You write whatever you want for every day of the month in the month of November.  I’m a leverage-thinking kind of guy - I’m already posting almost every day, [...]

We went to our first Halloween party last night with the girls!  It was at a friend’s house - we had pizza for dinner, and then went trick-or-treating in their neighborhood.  It was nice to not be home for once.
After we ate, we got the kids ready to go.  Panda was a ladybug, and IB [...]