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Air holes should be smaller
I woke up this morning to find 20 lightning bugs outside of their container.
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Surreal Moment of the Day
(I posted this to Facebook but it should have gone here)
The sun is bright, there is no wind, I put on my noise canceling headphones
, turn to Simply Noise’s thunderstorm, press play and the house shakes from a HUGE explosion of thunder outside.
It was really like a scene from a movie.
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My Wife: Guest Blogger/Bad Parent
My wife is a guest blogger at Scholastic Parents and a bad parent. Share your thoughts with her.
Read all her Scholastic Parents guest posts. Jump in and feel free to comment on each topic.
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Parent Fail
It’s 1:00am and half my family is awake.
On the positive side, I finally got one of my nose hair trimmers working! What a drag it is getting old…
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Invisible Rope Trick
This brings back memories. I have no idea where I learned this but when I was 11 or 12 years old, a friend or my brother and I did this. Cars do slow down! But for the record, eventually an angry man gets out of his car and rips you a new one.
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From the mouths of babes
Evan, 4 years old: "Daddy, go downstairs to your computer so I cannot get scissors."
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Reminder to self
When cracking jokes to the Aspies, be ready with an explanation that 1) it was a joke and 2) why it is funny. Expect "oh" instead of guffaws.
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Sheriff Hunts Someone from the Air
Yesterday a low flying sheriff’s helicopter circled over our house several times. We believe they thought a criminal was in the creek. Roughly 45 minutes later, the police scanner reported apprehending someone at the Weigel’s nearest our house and the helicopters (there were at least 2) went away. When it took the most direct path over our house I had the video camera paused and missed the best shot. This video mostly shows trees.
A couple of things you will hear in this video:
- "they must be 100′ off the ground" – okay. exaggeration and not well seen in this video. The first video I tried shooting, and had the dog gone thing paused, was when they flew directly overhead and it did look much lower
- "could it be drugs" – the DEA flies helicopters over these parts frequently during prime growing season but usually they are over the farms and properties along the river.
The person they were hunting was caught about 45 minutes later 1/4-1/2 mile from my house
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activeCollab IRC support on Efnet and Freenode
Sort of. I’ve opened an #activecollab channel on IRC’s Efnet (and Freenode) in hopes some real-time community support will develop for people interested in customizing activeCollab‘s project management and collaboration tool. I won’t promise to always be there nor to have useful information, but perhaps if a group of us form we can generate answers faster than the forums.
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Of Grasshoppers
Student: This mountain is too high.
Master: Forget the mountain. Let’s climb this small hill first. -
Beautiful Day Outside!
I’d like to spend all day cleaning out the garage. What’s this chain doing attached from my ankle to my computer?
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Note to the DJ
When trying to have an intimate moment with the wife, romance turns to comedy when the music switches from Led Zeppelin to Meatloaf’s "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" mid-act. I think that’s the first time in my life I’ve actually been able to act that song out…while the song was playing!