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One More Ride: Chapter 5: Food

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Norville tore into his pizza not quite savagely. People always told him growing up that eventually his metabolism would slow, that his freakish ability to consume and process copious amounts of food without weight gain would ebb, that his days of eating whatever he wanted without consequence …

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Selfish

My wife is so selfish. She doesn’t take her phone with her when she gets out at 3am to go to the gym. Therefore I can’t text her to bring me donuts. I’m starving. My stomach is about to burst out of my middle like in that sci-fi movie with the aliens in it, the …

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Weird iPod / iTunes issue

A few weeks ago my wife brought me a secondhand iPod Nano to troubleshoot. She had already performed all of the basic troubleshooting steps herself, but it still would not sync with iTunes. When you plugged the iPod into the computer, the computer would see the device, but iTunes would not. It did not matter …

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Overheard: 60 yr old male

“When they cremate me I want to have a hat on.”

Free Wallpaper: Concrete Parallax for iPhone 5

If you have iOS 7 installed on your iPhone 5, I have created a parallax wallpaper just for you:

VBS 2013 Development Diary: #12: Stepping Up

Every year we do Bible school I supervise  most aspects of the skit: writing, direction, set building, prop construction, casting, and rehearsal (I have a lot of input on the music and costumes, but not usually enough expertise to give useful input). I usually have some people who take care of some of these once …

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hebetude

n., the state of being dull or lethargic.

Quotable: Otto von Bismark

“They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.”

I’m a big kid! $#%+!

I recently attended the freshman showcase for my daughter’s theater department at college. Most all of the incoming freshmen and transfer students performed a monologue, a song, or dance number. There were several good performances, and a few amazing ones. Sadly there were a few that appeared to be the performer’s attempt to prove that …

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Bridges of Madison County: The Musical

The 1993 hit book The Bridges of Madison County is being made into a musical. For those of you who like music and stories about guys who sleep with other guys’ wives, this is your thing. My initial draft of this post contained a faux track list of song titles I made up to go …

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