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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
End of Something (Start of Something Else)
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We played Metuchen today in the Group I State semi-finals and we knew it would be a tough match-- all we could hope for is that it stayed cl...
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Senior Cut Day!
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I nearly forgot to put a sentence up-- it's senior cut day and the vibe is infectious.
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Sports with the Boys (and more)
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I had off yesterday (because we didn't use any snow days) and so my older son Alex snuck me into the Rutgers gym on Busch Campus at noon...
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The (Murder) Mystery of Existence
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A new episode of my podcast We Defy Augury is up and streaming-- this was a tough one to make; it's called "The (Murder) Mystery o...
A Very Windy (and possibly penultimate) Practice
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Tennis season is annoying-- it runs through Spring Break and Memorial Day Weekend, so you're always missing kids for various reasons-- b...
Weekend Review
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I went out with the pub crew Thursday night to Steakhouse 85 and Alec leaned too far forward on his bar-chair, so that he was leaning on two...
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I Need to Even Out
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I am developing quite the "farmer's tan" because of tennis season and today's Relay for Life outdoor school event-- but I ...
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We Are Through to Round Two!
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Highland Park boys tennis team is the ten seed in our region of the State Tournament, so we took a ride up to Roselle Park-- the seven seed-...
Nice Job Stacey!
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Stacey made a good-old-fashioned worksheet for Hamlet scenes 4.5 and 4.6 and it was just what the doctor ordered.
Shakespeare Motivates Shakespeare?
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This year, I'm really getting to the bottom of Hamlet, the most bottomless piece of literature in existence, but this means we might ne...
Weird and Ugly Tennis Match
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This was a difficult situation to process and I am sure this sentence is extraordinarily biased and we'll never get to the bottom of it ...
Construction Raises Dave's Spirits (and Property Values)
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I'm not sure if it was due to my persistent and eloquent emails to the County Parks Department, but construction is underway . . . the...
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Wink Wink Nudge Nudge Revisited
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I read the book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness way back in 2009 and-- like much of rational liberal America...
Artificial Intelligence Does My Job . . . and More! So Much More . . .
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Yesterday in Public Speaking class, a student asked if AI could grade an essay and I said "sure it can" and then I took his speech...
Tennis Tennis Tennis Tennis
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We finished out the regular tennis season with a couple of wins over Colonia and Bound Brook and now we just have to wait and see what happe...
We Defy Augury . . . Hamlet Style
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Tennis season has really slowed down my podcasting output-- I am becoming downright Hamlet-like in my indecisiveness and aversion to action...
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Last Period Ideas
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The last 82-minute block is brutal to teach-- especially when you're trying to educate fourth-quarter seniors, but we did come up with a...
GMC Monday
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Yikes, quite a long GMC Tourney Monday-- we left the school at 7:45 AM (because Jakob was late) but there was no traffic so we made it down ...
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Real Friday Continued . . .
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So . . . I finally had a real Friday without tennis and I certainly made use of it (to the chagrin of Saturday) because after happy hour wit...
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Sandwich Choice
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Apparently, if your wife makes you a sandwich for lunch-- especially if she very rarely makes your lunch-- and then you go to work and your...
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A Real Friday!
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After four tennis matches in a row-- Monday through Thursday-- we all took a much needed day off today . . . and I got up and played Friday ...
F%$& Thursday
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There's still another day in this week?
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All Kinds of Shit
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You may have seen this video where John Stewart lambastes Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm about the hypocrisy of "protecting" ...
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Here's a Leak to Make You Freak
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Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley is a book that will make you reflect on the power, pragma...
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A Fun Wedding (Sort of)
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My wife and I almost had a fun and relaxing time at my wife's niece's wedding yesterday afternoon . . . almost . . . the wedding was...
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Rain Redux Broom Dementia Redux
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It's been raining all week at 3 PM . . . tennis got canceled earlier in the week but today I was able to sweep away the puddles with my ...
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Million to One Shot, Doc . . .
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I bit into my soup dumpling and the juice shot right into my wine glass!
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Rainy Round Trip
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Yesterday, we had an away match against JFK (Iselin) who slaughtered us 5-0 last time-- and we were scheduled to have four matches this week...
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Hey Books . . . Stop Trying to be 100 gecs
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I can't get a break lately with the mystery books I've been reading lately-- I'm done skewering books on my podcast (If Books Co...
Monday is the Day You Forget Shit
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I keep a big push-broom in my car so that before tennis matches, I can sweep water and/or tree catkins (green fuzzy pollen shit) and samaras...
gecs!
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Last night, my wife and I, my son Alex, and his girlfriend Eva made a foray into the heart of Brooklyn-- to the Avant Gardner concert/wareho...
The Mysteries of Your Musical Taste . . . Part Two!
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It's finally up . . . Part Two of my epic investigation of musical taste -- my thoughts are (loosely) based on This is What It Sound...
Put Your Money Where Your Feet Is
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Yesterday, my son Ian's feet were all messed up from the previous day's tennis match-- blisters and couple of toenails that looked l...
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Tomorrow Morning is Double Convergence Friday!
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While I'm not happy about the impending rainstorm (and accompanying blustery winds) that's going to make this weekend a washout (and...
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Tennis Etc.
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So much tennis . . . and some Hamlet and some persuasive speeches in Public Speaking-- and a trip to the vet for Lola's exotic UTI-- hop...
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Too Much to Bear
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Because of some sort of copyright infringement, my high school had to remove the bear logo from their stadium turf field-- they hadn't p...
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From . . . Where Do They Come From?
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A long day-- got up early to chip away at the new podcast episode, away tennis match in Metuchen, Catherine took the dog to the vet because ...
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Tracy Morgan . . . Back from the Dead
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Over a decade ago, my wife and I saw Tracy Morgan perform his very profane, very insane brand of comedy at the State Theater -- the performa...
Friday!
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I went to school for five days in a row this week, but-- oddly-- I did not reach total enlightenment (nor were any prizes awarded).
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My Turn!
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My kids like to take turns . . . getting in trouble (euphemistically known as experiential learning).
English Department Defeats Google . . . In Bed?
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The other day I was racking my brain because I knew there was some situation where you insert the phrase "in bed" at the end of a ...
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TV . . . It's What's On TV
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Catherine and Ian were resistant to watching a new show-- they wanted to forge ahead with Money Heist (which is good, bit it's five mill...
The Raider Bird
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A few hiccups today-- no Ian at first singles (got in some trouble at school) and Jakob was very late (Patrick retrieved him) but we still m...
Your Musical Taste . . . Part One!
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New episode of We Defy Augury up and streaming . . . "The Mysteries of Your Musical Taste: Part 1" . . . the premise of this o...
Talk to the Bus Driver: He Might Be Famous
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On the way to tennis matches, I always make a point to chat with the van driver-- because I'm sitting shotgun and it would be rude just ...
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So Much For Spring
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Hottest April tennis practice in history . . . but we played a fun game to make the points go quickly: tiebreaker to 7, you get one serve-- ...
Free to Die Whenever We Damned Please
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The new Plain English podcast dives into a depressing question: "Why do Americans die so much younger than people in any other rich co...
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Ugly First Match
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Today we drove to Old Bridge- a giant group 4 school-- with a limited line-up . . . Michael was away for Passover and Akhul was sick-- and w...
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Whatever You Believe, Please Try To Climb the Political Ladder
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Blogger, author and illustrator Tim Urban doesn't think right/left expresses the politics and polarization in our great nation-- first o...
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Easter Sunday Tennis Resurrection
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This afternoon, my brother, Alex, Ian and I played some doubles at Mercer County Park before Easter dinner-- Alex hadn't played since th...
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Wind . . . What is it Good For?
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The wind is the most annoying element in sports (except when it becomes a tornado-- then it's one of the most deadly elements) and while...
History . . . What is It Good For?
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New episode of We Defy Augury up . . . I read a couple of history books and learned a few things-- but probably not as much as I should h...
John Mulaney Stole My Bit!
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I was texting with my friend Whitney today and I recommended he listen to the album "10000 gecs"-- but I also recommended the c...
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Tennis Canceled (Self Reflective Stretch Day)
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No tennis match today-- the weather is truly ugly-- and we could probably use a bit more practice so this might be a good thing, so this af...
This Doesn't Bode Well . . .
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Today at tennis practice, our third singles player and I beat Ian and Ethan -- first and second singles-- in a set . . . Ian has the yips wi...
Horror with Panache (or Should I Say Flair?)
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Last Night in Soho , which on first glance might seem like some other kind of film-- perhaps a feminine/Anglophile version of Woody Allen...
Remember When Harry Potter Fought Jesus?
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I've just started listening to The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling and it seems Rowling is a useful and fascinating lens with which to ob...
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Horror and Lunch Buffet
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Last night, Catherine and I watched the horror movie Barbarian and while I will admit that every decision every single regular person made ...
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Spring Break! Spring Break?
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Long last day of school-- I covered a class so I worked every minute, plus the kids are wild animals the day before break . . . this poor gi...
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Dave Learns Too Much Today
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I took over a new class today (because Cunningham got knocked up) and my co-teacher was out, so I had to learn a lot on my own (sort of, I c...
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Long Fucking Afternoon
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My son Ian, a senior, and Ethan-- an athletic and skilled sophomore, played their challenge match today for the first singles position and i...
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Almost Fucking There
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The Rutgers Expos team is slogging its way toward Spring Break but there's a bunch of essays, an Excel Spreadsheet, numerous college cre...
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March Showers Are Fucking Cold
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The weather apps did not concur-- my students, with their newfangled iPhones, said their Apple weather app predicted 90% rain, but my much d...
Life is Scarier Than Death
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It's easier to fight a deranged possessed puppet than it is to be an executrix . . . or at least that's my argument in this week'...
One-on-one Doubles
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My high school tennis team is going to play one-on-one doubles every day at practice-- they can't do it well yet, but they have improv...
gecs!
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I am still obsessed with the album 10000 gecs . . . I'm sure I'll get sick of it, but I'm listening to this album the way I lis...
Chat GPT is a Prude
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I haven't played with Chat GPT in a while, but it rained today-- resulting in no tennis practice-- so I got to screwing around and I ask...
So Many gecs
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If you liked this song , then you might like 100 gecs . . . if you need some context, listen to the new Switched on Pop . . . or go all t...
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Longest Week of the Year
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The long angry week: half days with no lunch, four fucking days of spring parent conferences-- unheard of anywhere except East Brunswick-- t...
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El Orfanato plus Being John Malkovich Equals?
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If you're looking for a horror novel with serious puppetry, Being John Malkovich level marionette skills, then check out the new Grady ...
Wild Times
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I was going to run over to T.J. Maxx today and buy some athletic socks, but instead I ordered them on Amazon.
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Thus Endeth the Streak
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I played pickle ball today and tennis Thursday and Friday, and I did not fall down on any of those days . . . good times.
NCAA Weirdness Has Selected New Jersey
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Rutgers doesn't make March Madness but Princeton and FDU move on . . . a New Jersey minor miracle (after a St. Peters major miracle last...
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Tennis: First Day!
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Whirlwind day: reverse schedule because of testing; Cunningham had a mental breakdown because of the positioning of her horizontal oblique f...
What The Kids Are Up To . . .
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On our ride home from the Catskills, my son Alex gave me the lowdown on college-- apparently fraternity hazing still happens, as does the us...
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Mark Leyner vs. The Internet
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Take a trip back to the '90s in my new episode of We Defy Augury . . . the internet didn't quite work yet, but the movies were a...
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Back to Belleayre (But Better)
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Last spring, Alex and I took a trip to Belleayre Mountain to do some snowboarding in celebration of his acceptance to the Rutgers Engineerin...
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Socks Suck
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Enough said.
My Boss is the Best
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Yesterday, I had leftover tilapia for lunch and I needed some gum before I went back to class and breathed on the students and even though m...
Cold Times in Laramie
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If you're looking for a grim, bloody, disturbing podcast that investigates the unreliability of memory and the possibility that all firs...
A Podcast is Worth 10,000 Words
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I converted one of my podcasts to text (using Otter.ai) and then cleaned it up and made it into a blog post and it turns out that a podcast ...
Adulting 201
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Lynn Steger Strong's novel Flight is a reminder of how difficult it is to be an adult-- to deal with money, finances, children, death, ...
Delayed Reaction Dave
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So I was going up for a rebound Saturday and some kid continued to box me out, even though I was in the air, and I took a hard horizontal fa...
Anyone Seen This Guy Lately?
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A couple of pictures of me circa 1993 (courtesy of my buddy Neil) when we went out to meet our buddy in Tahoe-- apparently thirty years ago ...
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Yikes
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I went up for a rebound today while playing four-on-four basketball with my son and somehow got my legs swept out from under me and hit the ...
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Sports: The Great and the Terrible
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I got one sporting birthday gift for my birthday, and one sporting slap in the face: 1) Alex and Ian played together in a volleyball tournam...
Dave and The Good Doctor Celebrate Yet Another Birthday With Some Doggerel Rhymes
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The day has arrived, the day of my birth-- The day Seuss and I debuted on the Earth; And while the good doctor has passed from this place, I...
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Various Kinds of Door Decorating
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My older son Alex turned nineteen today (WTF!) and my wife slipped out of work at lunch and went to his dorm and decorated his dorm room d...
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