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Backyard cats finale
There’s been no sign of the kittens nor their mother in over a week. So I’ve concluded the irresponsible neighbors stole them and have since moved out; school let out recently and certain children aren’t around. It’s a pisser. I … Continue reading
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Summer of 1982 IV: Poltergeist
We now hit the half-way point to the Summer of 1982 and this entry the first movie I actually saw in theaters 30 years ago. Poltergeist is a fairly important movie for several reasons: It got actors JoBeth Williams and … Continue reading
DC announced which “major” character will now be gay…
…and now let the fanboys, homophobes, reporters stuck working on a slow news day, so on wring their metaphorical hands over this while the rest of us living in the real world, shrug our collective shoulders, then get on with … Continue reading
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Happy Tenth Birthday Nemo
Today is when we decided this would be Nemo’s birthday. We aren’t exactly sure how old he was the day Somara rescued him from the ditch. The emergency vet put Nemo’s initial age around a few weeks, thus we went … Continue reading
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Happy Tenth Birthday Anna
A happy day to my Chicago-based niece! I think she gets to celebrate twice, obviously her birthday with a some kind of party/dinner (something) to acknowledge being in the double digits. The other would be school letting out, I think … Continue reading
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Happy belated 108th Birthday Grandpa
Living to be 108 is really pushing it but with my maternal grandfather, if there was anyone who could’ve succeeded on this accomplishment, I would’ve gone with him as the smart money. Listening to the advice of his doctor(s) was … Continue reading
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Doing a backfill for the next week and a half
The last one didn’t give me any tremendous amount of new gray hair, the support engineering gig if you forget. This time I am covering for a really nice person whose wife had a baby last week and his position … Continue reading
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It’s officially Summer! As it was in 1982
School lets out at various points throughout the US: in Central Texas they’re out, in the Midwest, they have almost a week, I recall kids out East used to be stuck until mid-June. Universities are long gone and today is … Continue reading
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Kings in six for the Cup, no idea with Calder
The Stanley Cup kicks off this Wednesday with the Devils having home ice. I hope to catch some of the game(s). Although my loyalties lean toward the Atlantic Division, I say the advantage goes to the LA Kings. They’re younger, … Continue reading
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Slamacow!
Joining my new ’12 collection of retro shirts is this hybrid/mash-up: Adventure Time meets the early NES packaging (circa the mid to late Eighties).
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If Necessity is the Mother of Invention…
…then Kludge is Necessity’s lesser known, embarrassing step-child.
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The Summer of ’12 Look, mainly retro but not ironic
There was a bunch of cool stuff on clearance at 80stees.com and with the Summer of ’82 going on, I couldn’t help myself to get some appropriate apparel for attending certain movies, especially after I gave my Spock Blocker shirt … Continue reading
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Summer of 1982 III: Rocky III
The Summer of 1982 keeps on a rollin’ with this third installment about (coincidentally) the third Rocky movie which I watched without irony. Rocky III is a fairly important movie for several reasons: Despite Rocky II being rather conclusive, R3 … Continue reading
It was 35 years ago, in the Midwest far, far away
I wrote about this in greater length five years ago and a tad redundantly with certain words, when I ever finish getting the remaining, old entries posted, I promise to go back and re-edit them all. Anyway, Star Wars, the … Continue reading
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Things at work are a little too nerdy
Some prankster with the ProApps team posted this near the break room. It’s somewhat an inside joke, namely people who grew up playing the NES in the Eighties.
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