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What’s that smell?

Dear Deodorant Companies, please quit watering down your formulas to try to sell us on your higher price clinical brands. Your watering down habit has found itself into the clinical brands or your formulas just don’t work. I have a household full of teenagers right now. I can attest that all of you, Gillette, Axe, Secret, Right Guard, etc. stink! (actually I think its the teens that smell)

That’s enough of a rant. I just had to clear the air. Thx.

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Burying the past

I just went through a box circa 1999-2001. It contained newspapers that were so large they felt awkward in my hands compared to today’s tiny paper. I recycled stacks of business cards of names that brought back interesting memories but will never be contacted again. I tossed papers of a defunct business which reminded me of the many things I had my hands in. I did some neat things back then. I found an uncashed check for $1 from 2000. It feels good to get that stuff out of the house.

Update: I filled up a 30 gallon trash bag plus another 13 gallon trash bag with papers I’ve been holding onto from 1999-2001. The recycle can is full! That was cathartic.

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Into the depths


Somewhere, buried deep in a box long forgotten in some dark corner of a long lost closet is a container of Novus plastic polish. I’ve promised the children I’ll fix all their scratched CDs, DVDs, and games. Today I don my adventurer’s hat, throw a whip over my shoulder, brush away some cobwebs and disappear into the darkness. If no one has heard from me by Monday, send search and rescue!

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Today is a busy day

Today we have pre-school orientation. That’s when you take the child into the school, let him get really excited, then announce, "time to leave!" We will have to follow it with something fun that doesn’t involve the outdoors because Knoxville is a giant mudpit right now.

Today I am trying to put the wraps on reinstalling the operating system on a laptop for a friend of mine along with security patches, antivirus, antimalware, etc.

Today I renew my battle with Knox County School’s transportation department to return the bus stop to the safe pickup location that I fought for 3 years to establish and has been the stop for 5 years.

This evening I will be juggling at an event at the Jewish Community Center on Deane Hill. I’d like to spend the day preparing.

Tomorrow I may be downtown to show support FOR health care reform and a public option which means today I should make a few posters.