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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Baby Seals Conquer Dave Jones' Locker
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We got up early this morning-- and it was COLD-- and we headed a few minutes up the road to Hancock Point Kayak Tours, which is an old coot ...
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The Other Side of Acadia
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The Schoodic Peninsula side of Acadia National Park reminds me of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon: equally scenic but more desolate and ex...
Dave = Winner
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Another hot day in Maine, so we didn't do any epic hikes-- instead, we explored the peninsulas and beaches in Hancock and Sorrento-- and...
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Back Up The Beehive (21 Years Later)
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Twenty-one years ago, my wife and I honeymooned in Bar Harbor-- and we stayed in a cottage, which was a step-up from our usual peanut-butt...
More Vehicular Woes! And a Nice Lake Swim . . .
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We made it up to Hancock, Maine without mishap-- stopping for Bissell Brothers beer and Salvage BBQ in Portland-- and while our rental is a ...
Too Much To Report
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I can't even begin to describe this, other than to say that we're extremely lucky and everyone is doing fine; but we are having some...
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Tennis
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Nothing much to report here, just a bunch of tennis (even my wife got out and hit!)
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Summer!
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Summer is here and it's already been fairly epic; -- me, the boys, and my brother attended my cousin's father-in-law's massive 2...
The Guest List: You'd Kill to be On It
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There were some fraternal hijinks at my wedding-- the boys "jammed' me into the Lawrencebrook for my blatant PDA with my new wife ....
Which America Do You Live In?
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George Packer's new article "The Four Americas" adds some much-needed precision to the usual polarization analysis; he divid...
Father's Day?
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Unlike Mother's Day-- which should probably receive an exclamatory flourish and be changed to Mother's Day!-- Father's Day would...
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It's Over . . .
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The weirdest and worst school year ever is behind us; the graduation ceremony turned out well-- we had a great mother/daughter speaking duo ...
Your Next Book Club Selection
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Grady Hendrix's The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is his best book yet; it reminded me of the wonderful feeling I ...
Fightin' Zombies on Company Time
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If you haven't fought some zombies in a big room while wearing an Oculus, you've got to give it a whirl-- no lag, exhausting, comple...
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Best Exorcism Ever!
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If you're looking for a tale of 80s high school nostalgia and demonic possession, couched in a wonderful-- but grossly graphic-- story o...
Mask Optional?
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Masks are optional in my school now, but it seems like everyone is still wearing them-- staff and students alike, except me, the janitorial ...
Things Feel Normal Again . . .
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I didn't have to wear a mask today at school, I don't have to wear a mask in stores, Ian has people over for his birthday and Alex h...
Grady Hendrix = Weird Al?
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Grady Hendrix may just be the Weird Al of graphic horror literature-- at his best, Hendrix is magical and satirical and very funny, with an ...
I Hate the Heat
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I really despise the heat of summer (and so does my son Ian and so does our dog) so it made me really happy to google "I hate the heat&...
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Horrorstör!
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Horrorstör , by Grady Hendrix, is a winner; my son and I both read it in the span of five days . . . it's about a haunted IKEA-like stor...
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Cold > Heat
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We're having a heatwave here in Jersey, and while my wife had to work a full day in an elementary school with no A/C and no fans, I was ...
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Keeping Up with the Brainses
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Sarah Pinkser's new sci-fi novel We are Satellites has an A+ premise-; it's a detailed look at how one family deals with a new tech...
Go Nets, Make Me Fatter
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The length of televised American sporting events definitely contributes to our obesity . . . how do you make it all the way through 7:30 PM ...
No End to the Shit
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This morning when I was biking home (on my wife's bike because mine got stolen, probably because my younger son left it out in front of ...
Dave Has Some Reading to Do . . .
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All the books in my queue appeared at the library today-- so I've got some serious reading to do . . . feel free to join my book clu...
Hybrid . . . Ugh
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I'm having a tough time selecting a hybrid bike (my bike got stolen) as I have to sift through a myriad of models and features and price...
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I Get It, I'd Jump Too
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We had some coastal flooding in Donaldson Park this weekend, and the surging brackish tide left some fish in the park, which expired and bak...
Heart Attacks and Stolen Bikes
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Over the course of this rainy Memorial Day Weekend, the boys and I watched the weirdest Seinfeld episode ever-- "The Heart Attack"...
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Do You Live in Fantasyland?
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We live in a country where beliefs like this are the norm; Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, A 500 Year History, by Kurt Andersen, ...
The Shape of Water
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The Shape of Water, directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a beautiful and violent love story between a godlike-man-fish and a mute cleaning wom...
The Times They Are a Changin' (Back)
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I didn't have to wear a mask at the gym today!
Watching Grass Grow is Like Watching Paint Dry
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I put down some grass seed in the yard in the spots that are bare from shed digging and dog pee, and grass takes a long time to germinate an...
The Dreaded Pusher . . . or Seven of Them?
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Disaster in the state tennis tournament yesterday, my kids' team got ousted in the first round by Florence, the seven seed (Highland Par...
You'll Never Leave the Woods
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In the Woods , Irish mystery author Tana French's first novel is one you will never forget-- it revolves around two separate mysteries r...
Duh
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My son Alex solved an easy version of this famous riddle today: Alex wanted to go to tennis practice early to practice his kick serve with ...
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Stacey Turns Forty
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Getting old is knowing when to drink five beers instead of ten (and the ladies at the engagement party we saw at The Homestead in Morristown...
Spring Means Extra Samaras
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I finished my cinderblock planter/bar and my wife added some plants, but our yard is being overwhelmed right now by a bumper crop of those m...
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Kids Think of the Best Shit
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My wife teaches fifth-grade math and she takes lots of outdoor mask breaks with her in-person students and one of them noticed that the purp...
You Might Want to Read the Latter . . .
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Klara and the Sun , by the masterful Kazuo Ishiguro, is a profound (and profoundly melancholy) take on obsolescence and AI . . . if you want...
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Stop Badgering Badgers
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"Badgering" someone isn't behaving like a badger-- it's behaving like a dog during the sport of "badger-baiting,"...
Dave and Cat Reopen NYC!
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Catherine and I went to the city for a couple of nights to celebrate 21 years of marriage-- we didn't do much for our 20th Anniversary b...
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Tennis Notes/Sibling Notes
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My boys had a tough match today-- they were playing Wardlaw Hartridge, an undefeated private school with a very good team, but it was a matc...
The Wind Got in My Eyes
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I'd love to write a sentence but I can't concentrate because my dishwasher is too loud.
Everyone Should Be Talking About This Book!
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Patricia Lockwood's new novel No One Is Talking About This is fragmented and poetic, it's hard to describe but easy to read; I would...
I Kept My Mouth Shut
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Yesterday, at the pool clean-up day, there were a number of people who wore masks-- though we were outside and certainly crowded in any way-...
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...
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