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the good:
two of my kids hooked up with me on twitter. devin and ian. interesting tweets.
my better half has started her observations for school. won’t be long now before kids will be bringing her apples.
there was a reunion of the hudson flight survivors. what a great story.
last weeks house episode was one of the best [...]

well. not really. have to finish 2009 for techjoe. doesn’t that sound like fun?
trying a new project this year. it’s the whole 365 pictures which = 1 picture a day. i took 13 yesterday to get one that i liked. guess i’ll put it up sometime today, along with a new one.
sat around the [...]

to all… i hope that you had a terrific holiday season! that it was safe and that it was warm.
i think that first, i would like to say kudos to my far better half. she has worked hard at her schooling to become a teacher. i have no worries what kind of teacher she will [...]

here is a friend of mines site. i enjoy his humor and his drawings. political slant. good humor. give it a try. what can it hurt?
http://oftheseends.com
see ya there…

what a week.
my wife and i hit our 16th year of marriage. we celebrated by taking in a show and then returning home for a meal that i cooked for the family. it’s a family affair, these anniversaries. there is nothing wrong with that. they all have been a part of the past years, so [...]

sure. you can find the definition of indoctrinate in any dictionary. here is a link to m-w.com.
ok.
here is what it says:
1: to instruct in fundamentals or rudiments : teach
2: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle
this definition can be placed with any number of people or [...]

back in april, my boss and i made a bet. it was simple. the cubs would make it into the playoff’s for the 2009 season. the amount? $20.00.
things started out ok. wins. losses. some more wins.
but the tide, as it were, never turned. it seems that we have had one of the worst august’s that [...]

it is no surprise that i love coffee. i drink it all the time. it is my poison of choice.
for years, i had always used a capresso version because it took beans and ground them fresh to make the coffee. it worked really well, for a while, then would give up. i tried, a couple [...]

interesting end to the week.
first. a congratulations to my friend rick l. his sox, and specifically mark buehrle pitched a perfect game. not just a no hitter, but a perfect game. there have been 18 total in all the years of baseball. think how many games per year and the odds become, well, crazy! i [...]

today marked the 40th year since we stepped foot on the moon. it meant nothing to my kids, and i guess i expect that. to me, it meant that the things we want to attain can most certainly be had. i still remember watching it. thinking how cool it was. how we could go that [...]