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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
The Mean Streets of Rural Ireland?
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Five pints out of five for Tana French's new novel The Searcher . . . it's a bit like The Searchers in that it has the vibe of a ...
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No Time For Sentences!
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No time to write sentences, as I'm working on my next project: a cinderblock bar/planter next to the newly built shed . . . I'm tryi...
My Neck Has a Weird Itch . . . Is It Just Sweat From Running?
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When I looked in the mirror a moment ago, I saw a decent sized spider on my neck . . . and I wish I could say I reacted calmly (but no worse...
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If It Rained When I Was Sleeping, Then I Might Not Eat out of Boredom
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It's May, so enough of the April showers, Weather Gods . . . I want to go out and watch my kids play tennis (not inhale an entire bag of...
Even More Shed (and Tennis Notes)
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Caulking, hook-hanging, organizing . . . a shed-builder's work is never done-- even if the shed-builder is tired because he subbed in at...
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Left is Right?
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We were doing ethical relativism and ethical universalism in Philosophy class today and I had a thought that merits further development-- by...
This New Shed
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For your reading pleasure, here is the (mostly) complete saga of the shed . . . I'm sure there will be a couple more posts about organiz...
Tip Top Tuesday
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Tuesday is generally the worst day of the week- neither here nor there-- but despite this, I manned up and shingled half a shed and then bro...
That's What She Shed
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My shed now has doors-- which were a pain in the ass to hang-- a clasp, some custom-built shelves (I didn't screw up the measuring, not ...
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Jokes: How to Tell Them?
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Thursday night, Rob the Plumber told an excellent joke and I liked that he told it as an exercise in minimalism . . . the joke got funnier o...
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Murder in the Snow
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Ruth Ware's new mystery thriller One by One is totally entertaining, especially if you love skiing and snowboarding; it's set in th...
Dave Makes an Inspirational Poster!
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This morning during my first period College Writing class, I scrawled a brilliant and inspirational epigram on an 8.5 by 11 piece of printer...
Note to Pollen
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When everything blooms, sleep with the windows in your bedroom closed (what a difference).
Adventure on the Clock
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Terry, Mike, and I took a walk on our free period yesterday and when we got to the back of the building we saw the back "smokers" ...
Shed Break
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I took a break from shed building today (and wow was I sore from shed building) to host the First Day of School in April . . . it's the ...
Nobody Put a Shed in the Corner (Except Dave)
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I started banging nails at 8 AM this morning-- my wife thought I was pushing it and might upset the neighbors-- but I knew I had a long day ...
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Shed Shed Shed
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My life has become very orderly: I'm either building the shed or taking breaks from building the shed (otherwise known as living your li...
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The Shed Saga Continues
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I built the base for my shed and read the instructions to build the actual shed and I am afraid to open the shed package (although the deer...
Man Tantrum
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Tuesday afternoon, my wife started preparing two elaborate recipes ( Crispy Sour Cream and Onion Chicken and some Ethiopian lentil dish) an...
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The Deers Hate My Shed
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The shed project continues: I've leveled out the base, bordered it with bricks, put down plastic pavers, added the pea gravel, hauled th...
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Sci Fi Sunday (Profound and Absurd)
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It was a rainy Sunday yesterday, so . . . 1) I read over a hundred pages of Chen Qiufan's futuristic vision Waste Tide . . . it's t...
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Even More Tennis Notes
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Yesterday, after purchasing, loading, and unloading a dozen bags of pea gravel (for the shed base) I substituted again in the tennis league ...
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We've Been at the Mercy of Evil Geniuses
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It's not a fun read, but it's compelling; Kurt Andersen's new book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America is a comprehensive hi...
Shed Shit
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Shed shit is happening, slowly but surely.
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God Helps Them?
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Thoughts and prayers are the opposite of solutions and action.
Extremity Revelation!
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I'm not a size 12 shoe, I'm a size 11.5 wide.
Let the Taunting Begin?
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I didn't want to ask for too many details, but they are doing "challenge matches" now at tennis practice to determine the posi...
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Some Simple Advice, Since the Marketplace is Broken
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The new episode of Radiolab, "What's Up Holmes," is required listening for anyone interested in the great American experiment...
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Shed Stuff
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Cleaning out the shed, in preparation to knock down the shed, so that we can build a new shed-- it's not for the weak of heart (but I ce...
All the Weather
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Alex and I just got back from a father/son snowboarding trip where we experienced all of the weather-- terrible wind (enough wind to blow m...
Yesterday vs Today . . . Teenwolf vs Pfizer
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Yesterday began with such promise: I defeated my nemeses in the NYT Mini Crossword (Stacey, Whitney, and Zman) which is a rarity and cause f...
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College Admissions: More Than You Need To Know . . .
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Jeffrey Selingo's Who Gets in and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions is a great book-- well-written, compelling, and chock full of t...
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Rambling Saturday Morning Thoughts and Warnings
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I'm a little logy from staying up late last night but it was worth it-- Rutgers beat Clemson for their first NCAA tourney win in 38 year...
The Specter of Walt Disney Raises Awkward Dave from the Grave
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In the past decade, I've tamed Awkward Dave to some degree, but he still occasionally rears his ugly, awkward head; one of these times ...
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Thick Masks and Liquid Skin: More New Shit
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Like many people, I'm struggling to adapt to the new pandemic world order-- but I'm doing my best to learn new tricks; for ex...
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Daylight Saving Time: Catastrophe and Miracle
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Yesterday, I was running late-- of course-- because we had just sprung ahead for fucking Daylight Saving Time and though I was bleary-eyed, ...
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Note to Self (in March)
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This is what I learned yesterday: don't install a screen door on a windy day.
Game, Set, Match (Dave Beats the Drowned Man)
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Yesterday was the last day of the winter men's league-- and while most of the guys are signing up for the spring session, I will be play...
It's About Time . . .
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Lydia Millet's novel A Children's Bible is a modern, environmental take on the classic-- finally!-- and while Biblical elements ab...
Stopping by the Snow Bank on a Warm Afternoon
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This snow is lovely, dark, and deep.
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This Land is Your Land, This Land is Nomadland
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Jessica Bruder's book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is an eye-opener to another America, an America of a wand...
Birthday Shots, Cold Showers, Long Lines and a Perfect Score.
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Quite a pair of birthdays for Alex and me: on Alex's birthday had a 1:30 PM appointment at the DMV for his road test with a borrowed car...
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If I'm Lucky, I'll Have Another Thing in Common With Theodore Geisel (Thanks Pfizer)
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I share my birthday with a cat named Seuss a man I respect for his creative juice his rhymes were tight, his mind was loose-- and while the ...
Dog Jenga? Dog Tetris?
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The mud season is here (and the rain along with it) and the dog park has quickly transformed from a winter wonderland into a swamp-- but the...
Read Some Allie Brosh! No Excuses . . .
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When I tell people to read some Allie Brosh -- a young lady who writes primitively illustrated memoirs that are so funny even Bill Gates lau...
The Tennis Season Wears On
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Today I left for my Saturday morning tennis league looking like an athlete long past his prime-- I was wearing two knee braces: a neoprene s...
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More Behind the Scenes Stuff
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I remembered a couple more chores that generally fall in my purview and aren't particularly lauded . . . I tend to fill the gas tanks o...
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How to Clean a Bowl (if your wife rarely reads your blog)
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I eat a bowl of Greek yogurt, peanut butter, and granola every morning-- and it's delicious-- but the down side is that it's very di...
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Sometimes Kids Learn Things Without My Help
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I've taught my older son Alex many valuable things: 1) how to juggle a soccer ball; 2) how to serve a tennis ball; 3) how to throw a ...
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How to Combat Winter Madness: A Video Tutorial
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The weather just jumped the shark here in New Jersey-- the lovely blustery snowflakes transformed into large pellets of 33-degree rain-- so ...
Behind the Scenes?
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The other day, I was explaining to my wife all the "behind-the-scenes" kind of stuff I do around the house to keep the show up-and...
Even More Tennis Notes
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Today was the first day since I injured it that my leg felt 100% . . . which was a good thing as I had to play Uday, the best player in the ...
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It's Time For Everyone To Leave the House
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Last night at 10:30 PM I was woken from a sound sleep by my older son-- who was on a Zoom call playing Monopoly with his friends and found i...
Fast Times at Action Park
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Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park is a tribute to a bygone era-- a ti...
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Duh
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If your electric toothbrush runs out of juice, you can still use it manually (I think this goes for an electric blank as well . . . but not ...
More Dishes?
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Sometimes surviving the pandemic feels like working in a restaurant . . . a diner, in particular-- open for breakfast, lunch dinner, and lat...
He's Fleeing the Interview . . .
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I've been walking Lola exclusively in the snowy fields in the large park adjacent to my house-- because of salt-covered roads and icy si...
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Snowmark Day?
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I know it's a big deal when your progeny graduate high school or go off to college or get married or get their first full-time job and w...
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What Happens to a Ship Once it Reaches Its Destination?
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The third book in Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series, Record of a Spaceborn Few , is slower and more philosophical than the first two in th...
Dave's Triumphant Return to Hybrid
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I heroically returned back to the classroom today-- as I am deemed essential . . . but not quite essential enough to rate a vaccination-- bu...
Another Winter Day in the Pandemic
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Despite our superintendent's best efforts, today was another all-remote school day . . . too much snow and ice to get hybrid started; th...
Ahh . . . Denim Days
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My buddy sent me this picture yesterday . . . I think it's circa 1990 but we are celebrating some romanticized version of the 70's t...
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A Wattersonian Ending to an Epic Week . . .
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I will be brief because I have exceeded my screentime limits this week and my brain is fried, but things were fairly epic this week: 1) we g...
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St. Thiswhere?
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I shoveled three times today, to no avail . . . it's like we're living in a snow globe-- you get rid of the stuff and it keeps comin...
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