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Dinner and an Auction

Saturday, April 25, 2009

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Dinner and an Auction

My Dad called this week and asked if we wanted some company for the weekend. I said that I thought we were pretty free, but I’d better check with Lauren. Lauren thought I was crazy… “You have a conference in Omaha all day Friday, then Middle School Fun Night all evening. Saturday morning I have [...]

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Why Lloyd can’t be left alone.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

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Why Lloyd can’t be left alone.

… at auctions, that is. Not that I’m upset that he bought a sousaphone, of course. It’s that he bought a sousaphone without me there. If he’s going to take these crazy kinds of risks unattended, there’s no telling what kind of unsanctioned junk he might buy. Today a sousaphone, tomorrow a bulk [...]

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YOU DO NOT NEED THAT.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

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YOU DO NOT NEED THAT.

First of all: Happy Belated Birthday to my nephew Jack!  September is just chock-full of birthdays, and we have terrible memories! *sigh*  Lloyd has a problem.  Can someone please tell him that even if something is dirt cheap, if you don’t need it it is not a bargain.  We went to another surplus auction and I [...]

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Getcher Fresh Hot Computers!

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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Getcher Fresh Hot Computers!

Lloyd had his computer sale at school today. He and some hard-working students set all the old-old stuff out on tables in the commons and then take people for all they’re worth. (It’s not the new-old stuff that he has bought at an auction this year, it’s the stuff that stuff replaced.) They had [...]

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Sam gots skilz!

Sunday, April 6, 2008

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Sam gots skilz!

In High School my cousin Sam Sommerer and I took an art class from Andy Safarik (there were other people in the class as well). I don’t remember what the actual name of the class was, but we called it “Clay Appreciation”. We must have had a lot of free time, because I remember messing around [...]

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Ultimate Junk Drawer

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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Ultimate Junk Drawer

As I was putting away my hot-glue gun tonight, it occurred to me that we’ve never shown you our drawers. A couple of years ago at one of the surplus auctions we bought an old library card catalog to hold our junk. I insisted that it would fit perfectly in the little [...]

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The Auction

Saturday, October 28, 2006

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The Auction

Well, folks, another Saturday was frittered away at an auction. This was the Lincoln Public Schools auction, which is better than the rest because they have many things that I’m interested in. (The others just have rows upon rows of computers and monitors. *snore*) Sure, up close they’re all worthless, old [...]

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