I mean that in a good way. Our no. 1 son is sick, and so we’ve been up at all hours lately. So, contrary to my usual sleeping-in-til-9:AM routine, I was able to make breakfast this morning and get outside before 8. I know, most people do that all the time. I [...]

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I do go off on tangents sometimes, eh?
Let us cleanse our palates with some nice normal stuff:
Wormcake.  I was worried that they’d all fried in the recent heat.  Nope.  Quite happy living in their own filth and eating my garbage.  THANKS, GUYGALS!
I was reading this blog the other day, and it inspired me to get [...]

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Continuing the saga of replacing dear Cedar, I now find myself at the opposite end of the spectrum from my previous post.  I’ve got three people with whom I’ve spoken, and they’re all swell.
I actually thought I had it decided.  I’d selected someone, dropped notes to the other interviewees (all pretty good, too), and just [...]

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