Bike to Work #1

I realize that National Bike to Work Week was 2 weeks ago, but in our household, that was Chauffeur Your Kids Everywhere Week, so I missed it.  Besides, our appalling lack of global warming did not make for pleasant biking. 
Speaking of global warming, here is a leading global warming opponent taking her pets for a walk.  [...]

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On Language – Being Compared to Animals

People get compared to all kinds of animals.  Sometimes it is complimentary, and sometimes not.  In teenspeak, a language which I hear a lot of but am not fluent in (it is just too easy to make a mistake and break into ’80s teenspeak, which is totally different, and makes me seem old), it is good to [...]

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A Custom Header, and Two Chess Games

It has been almost a year, but I finally got around to putting up a custom header.  I was waiting for a rainy day to do this, and today was the perfect day.  The “Misty Look” header just wasn’t me.
To the left is Anna (in red) running a cross country race. To the right, Joshua [...]

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The Week of Parental Pandemonium

Sometimes you have a week where all the kids’ activities come together at once. This was such a week.
Thursday – Anna ran in districts. It was scheduled for Wednesday, but there was too much rain even for a track meet.  Ballet rehearsals are happening throughout the week.
Friday – Anna had Prom.  She spent all afternoon [...]

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Quick Thinking at Barnes and Noble

Last night Joshua and I played in the Erie Chess Club’s Speed Chess Tournament, which was held at Barnes and Noble.
Most people don’t associate speed and chess, but speed chess is a way to make chess fast and exciting. The rules are a bit different from regular chess:
1. There is a two faced [...]

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Tattoo Branding – Ouch – Banned in Erie County

If I were a Libertarian, I might be concerned about my rights being taken away.    
 
 
 

HEALTH DEPARTMENT BANS TATTOO BRANDING
Tattoo artists in Erie County are no longer permitted to heat pieces of metal and use them to make third-degree burns in their clients’ skin.
The process is called branding, and it’s done at tattoo establishments across the [...]

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When Elections Get Ugly

As the field of candidates was whittled down, our family became increasingly dissatisfied with the system.
The people we liked all seemed to drop out too early.
We all agreed that one of the candidates seemed to be a girly-man.  It was something about his hair.
Another one was way too inexperienced to be ready for the top [...]

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