So Kevin convinced me to play a game called “My Tribe” on Facebook, and I am addicted now. It rained here all day yesterday which was a good excuse for me to park myself in front of the computer and play this damn game all day! I vowed from the start that I [...]

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Today is Kevin’s 35th birthday. I can’t believe I have a son who is 35! I can actually remember lots that happened in my life when I was 35 and, at that time, I never thought that my 7-year-old son would be my age one day. I thought that he would always [...]

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Turned out to be a great Sunday. The weather was in the high 60’s and sunny, so I decided to let the cats out in the backyard to wander around. I used some boards and bricks to block the area under the back fence so they couldn’t squeeze through to the yard behind [...]

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OK, I’ve really enjoyed parts of the Olympics but I’m ready for it all to end. I feel compelled to watch every night, even when there’s an event that I don’t really care about. Tonight I’m watching the four-man bobsled race because the United States had a chance to win the gold for [...]

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I’m going to be grateful when the Olympics are finally over. Not that I’m not enjoying watching them, it’s just that I can’t continue to stay up until 12:30-1:00 am every night! I don’t understand why NBC has to run them so late, and especially since they are all pre-recorded/tape-delayed. Start them [...]

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Am finally getting motivated to get busy around this house. I’m not sure what did it, but possibly it’s because things finally got bad enough to spur me on. I’m also almost out of silverware and lots of dishes. I’ve been washing everything by hand since I think my dishwasher is going [...]

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and I’m really not ready. There were too many interruptions this weekend and it just flew by way too quickly. I had to go somewhere each of the three days, meaning I didn’t have a lot of time at home to get much accomplished. And I had hoped to do quite a [...]

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Well, not exactly, but close. The neighbor who lives behind me died today at age 98. He was by far one of the nastiest neighbors I’ve ever encountered.
He complained continually when the dogs tore a hole through the bamboo we stapled up over his old rotted fence and got into his yard. [...]

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Was off sick today with what I hope is a 24 hour stomach bug of some sort. Starting to feel better tonight, but certainly felt miserable all day. I really need to go to work tomorrow so am hopeful this crud will be out of my system come morning.
Am looking forward to a [...]

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Seems that all the places around the country that are supposed to have mild weather right now are getting dumped on heavy duty.
We’re getting unbelievable amounts of rain, accompanied by thunder, lightning, hail and mudslides. Fortunately my home is safe, but I know of others who can’t say the same. I don’t mind [...]

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Tonight Phil Jackson became the coach who has won the most games ever as a Lakers coach. And on Sunday Kobe scored 44 points and has now scored the highest number of points of any Laker in history! It’s been pretty exciting to watch the games where these milestones have been reached. [...]

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FINALLY got the cable card installed yesterday so that I can actually watch my HD TV in high definition. And really enjoyed watching the Lakers beat the Celtics today! It was an exciting game and watching it in HD was fabulous!
Spent the remainder of the day today trimming the roses that my gardener [...]

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My birthday was pretty good, given that I had to go to work yesterday. Amanda (a coworker and friend) baked some really good brownies and brought them into my office with candles glowing to start off the day. The day before I received a box of Esther Price chocolates from my sister Kelly, [...]

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What has happened to the Do Not Call program? Seems I’m getting more and more sales/solicitation calls these days. Last night someone with a caller ID of ‘Telefund’ called right in the middle of Obama’s State of the Union address. And tonight I was snuggled on my bed with Nate & Hayes, [...]

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Went for breakfast at Patrick and Veronica’s place this morning. Actually sort of invited myself! Talked with Patrick and he mentioned that Veronica was cooking french toast for him, so I suggested she could fix some for me…and he said fine! Nice to have your son and his fiancee living less than [...]

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I scheduled my cable company (Charter) to come out today to install a cable card into my new HD TiVo so that I can watch all the HD TV stations. They were supposed to be here between 10 am and noon. They called at 10 am to say that the installer would be [...]

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So tonight we’ve got the addition of thunder, lightning and hail. And the rain continues heavy duty. It’s been raining all day except for a few small breaks. At one point late this afternoon we did see a huge big rainbow, but it was very short-lived as the next round of the [...]

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Today is day four. Not as much rain as Monday, but still lots. So far in our area we’ve had 7-8″ of rain and it’s supposed to continue for at least three more days. It’s not posing a big problem for me since we didn’t have the hills directly behind us denuded [...]

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They told us this would be a big storm and they weren’t lying. Wow! The rain has been pouring down since yesterday afternoon and today it’s been brutal. I’m guessing we’ve had at least 4-5″ so far today, based on the water in my pool. And this is just the start. [...]

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The cable guy came and hooked up my tv to a new cable box. Everything worked great when he left and I was thrilled to have my tv back again. I turned it off when Kevin called. After getting off the phone, I turned it back on again. Surprise, surprise…I have [...]

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