Day 1!

First day of the new job was interesting. I mean, I got up early, got to work at the requested 8:30, and got a small tour of the floor before most everyone else got there. That, I kind of expected. On the tour, I noticed that the guy in the cubicle across from me had [...]

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Assembly!

Can you guess what’s happening this weekend? If you guessed that the finished engine is going back in the truck, you were right!

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Foods

Since going gluten free, I’ve discovered that I like a lot more foods. Clarification: It’s not that I disliked the foods, it’s just that I didn’t like them enough to make them, order them, or buy them. I haven’t tried every food I previously avoided, mostly because I didn’t realize I was avoiding them. For [...]

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Dear Ted, I want fry pile equality

I like the food at Ted’s Montana Grill. Really, I do. But the last three experiences dining there makes me wonder if I want to go back again. Used to, we’d go in, get pickles, get more pickles, order, get our tasty food, and be outta there with a happy feeling. Since dining there with [...]

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Srsly, wtf.

I’ve been trying to enjoy my last week of relative unemployment. It’s a little full of errands that I/we have been putting off (like changing our names), but it’s been fine, and I like that the free time has a little sense of that urgency back that the first month of unemployment had. But, I’m [...]

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First

TCB though he’d be the first to break a wedding present. When we left to visit Mom this weekend, I washed a bunch of dishes, glasses, knives and plastic containers. I left them on the drying towel next to the sink. We returned to find glass all over the floor. Clearly, the cat had jumped [...]

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Running around

Last week, while at Dad’s, I came down with a horrible cold. Terrible. Awful. Just flattened me. I mostly stayed on the couch, slept, and ate soup for nearly a week. Needless to say, it put a pretty big crimp in my half-marathon training. Two weeks out, and I’m still feeling the effects of that [...]

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