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Hooray. I got pulled over.

Wednesday night, 9 p.m.
I am sleepy.
“Let’s go to bed,” I said. Lloyd agreed.
I looked around for my cell phone, which is also my alarm clock.
Nowhere.
I asked Lloyd to call it, but that’s actually not really helpful. I have it set to ‘One Beep’, so it beeps once and that’s it. We [...]

Car Talk

Spending 14 hours awake and 3 hours asleep in the car made me do some thinking. I’ve been on plenty of long car trips, and have different survival skills. In no particular order, here are my thoughts.
1. I am not a great driver, but I’m a worse passenger. Car trips take for-ev-er, [...]

21 hours

I went to IKEA on Saturday.
I’ve complained about March already, so I won’t go into the downer side of life right now, but I can tell you that on Tuesday I had a glimmer of an idea – “I could drive to IKEA this weekend. It’s the only weekend where nothing is going on.” [...]

A pretty good idea

So, we’ve been having these fun nights for a few years now, and I finally wised up. Instead of having the Senior class help with with all three fun night, I had two dozen Seniors doing the first one. Picked a dozen from the Senior class and a dozen from the Junior class for the [...]

Surprisingly Anti-climactic

Nine years and five months ago the Civic had 4 miles on it. Now it has some small amount over 200,000 miles. And I did it all wrong. I should have arranged it so that I was in some exotic place like West Point or Sidney, Cairo or York, Hershey or Madrid, Oxford or Peru, [...]

You owe me one, Mr. Wonka.

One of these chewy Sprees was delicious (in a very unnaturally-colored/ full-of-chemicals/ my advancing-age-is-preventing-me-from-really-enjoying-it kind of way), and one was not. In fact, one almost cracked one of my teeth when I decided I had taken enough pictures of it. Can you guess which one?

Speaking of weird-shaped candy, one of my favorite things [...]

Sharing Time – gather ’round

Let’s share morning routines, shall we? It will be less work for me, more fun for you! Trust me.
Wake-up time:
First thing you do:
Shower before or after breakfast?
Shampoo?
Conditioner?
Soap?
Average time in shower?
Toothpaste flavor:
Hair routine:
Breakfast?
I’ll start: (That will keep the above copy-and-paste-able)
Wake-up time: 5:15
First thing you do: Put on my glasses, which is funny because I wear [...]