Kiddo and I have a nighttime routine that we follow most nights of the week. After dinner and a bath, we sing all her favourite rhymes and unless I’m too entirely exhausted, we go over one or two of her favorite books as well and usually that is enough to put her to sleep. Last [...]
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What are your chances of getting hit in the face by a tennis ball when you are in an enclosed kiddie play area?
- 100%, if you happen to be me.
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As told by Homer on The Simpsons:
You don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.
Inspired by random surfing and this.
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I think I have found the most hideous looking footwear. Its called Vibram FiveFingers. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for comfortable shoes and as much as I enjoy watching Style TV and whatnot, I will happily forego style for comfort, anytime. Having taken up running recently, I also completely understand the need for [...]
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There are some songs that you hear for many years and never once question what the lyrics are or what they mean. For those songs, I just enjoy the tune, music and/or melody and leave it at that. When I do stop and actually listen, sometimes I find the lyrics moving and profound and at [...]
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Garrison Keilor is one of the people I enjoy(ed) listening to on the radio. I love this quote of his to the Paris Review,
“I think that past the age of thirty there is no obligation to be clever at all. Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a [...]
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I came across a list of words that were supposedly (since I have no way of confirming this) published by the Washington Post at some point as the winning entries in a contest to find the most outlandish(and funny) explanation for an existing word. I assume many might have seen this as part of [...]
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