Happy Birthday, Vati

To celebrate my father's birthday this year I'm going to post this onto my blog.

And now go back to work here in the office.

Happy Birthday, Dad! J- and I will give you a call later.

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Yogurt Monster

My wife recently made a new blog post. In it she wrote:

I don’t eat a ton of yogurt compared to my family [...]

What Rhx says is absolutely correct. I would like to say, on the record, that I also don't eat a ton of yogurt compared to ...

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Very Short Sighted

The Volcanoes year is over. They were eliminated just hours after Wednesday's post. They were playing a 3-game-series with Boise. It seems incredible to me that a post-season series would be decided in a 3-game-series. Short-Season Single-A teams's seasons are short -- what did I expect?

But MLB has ...

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Baseball

The Single A Short Season Northwest League has wrapped up its short regular season. J-'s Hops were edged out on Sunday in the best way for me -- the San Francisco affiliate Volcanoes clinced a second half win.

Sorry, J-. While I would gladly trade a successful big league Giants ...

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Must I?

Must I write today? I had to work late today, and am finally on my way home at 19:45. When I get home it will be time for me to go to bed. It's too bad I didn't get to eat my dinner. It's too bad ...

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It is not working

I wrote yesterday's post during my bus ride home. When I got home I saw the weeds were back in force, and my front lawn looked as poor as ever. This doesn't really mean that these writing exercises aren't making me a better person, just that being ...

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I Think This Is Working

This weekend I spent some time in th garden. I mowed the lawn(s) and pulled weeds. During the time I thought about what I would like my front yard to look like, but I also realized that getting rid of these weeds should be my first step in yard-rehabilitation ...

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Parable of the Sower

Today we took J. to his third church service. It was the first time I had to take him out of the service for fussiness. It was also the first time I had to take him out of the service for a diaper change. I took J. up to the ...

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Happy Birthday, Sheena

I want to wish Sheena a happy birthday.

I confused some people today by spreading the news that it's Sheena's birthday today: no Sheena is not my wife. Nor is she my daughter. Sheena is a cousin to me, but I can't remember if she is a ...

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Gardening is so utterly boring

I didn't want to write about writing here, but it sure was an easy way to get started, so today I'll change the subject, and talk about the catastrophe of home ownership: the garden.

When I was a young man, I rented places, and my landlords paid gardeners ...

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Please Excuse Me, I Plan To Write

In the month of June I drove to work. Now that we're in July, I'm back on the bus. The bus means I get some time to listen to my net-casts and maybe do some reading & writing.

Of greatest relevance here is my hope to increase the amount ...

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