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Celebrating Two People

My brother’s birthday just passed on May 8th and today is Mother’s Day.  I got off the phone with her an hour ago, and as she usually does, she made me “speak” to our black lab McKenzie over the intercom.  She said McKenzie’s tail was wagging upon hearing my voice, but there’s no way to [...]

I’m here in SoCal

975 miles and 17 hours later, we made it safe and sound to sunny southern California.  We left at 6:15 am and my mom drove until 1:30 pm.  I took over at a gas station and continued the rest of the way until 11:00 pm.  When my dad died, my uncles made the same trip [...]

I’m back

Thanks to everyone who emailed and posted condolences for the death of my father – it really meant a lot. Unfortunately, I barely had any internet access at home and haven’t replied yet. I arrived back home around 8 pm Sunday night, though my body was still thinking it was 4 am. I didn’t sleep [...]

Happy Mother’s Day

70th Birthday Party

I just wanted to share some pictures. These were taken two days ago at my (to make things simple) great uncle’s 70th birthday party. He’ll be retiring in two years from the US Army Corp of Engineers, rounding out 25 years there. We talked for a little bit early in the night. He wanted to [...]

Happy Birthday to two

It’s my mom and Renee’s birthday today, which makes it easy to remember. I took my parents and brother out for some sushi before come back to do more work. Next week is my brother Joe’s birthday, who’ll be coming back from U of O for winter break. I’ve been back for a few months [...]

TVs on sale

I was checking my feeds this morning and got sucked into reading a post about all TVs at Best Buy being 30% off on Black Friday.  Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, and the biggest shopping day of the year.  Everyone on the forum was drooling about the plasma TVs they were going to [...]