A couple of things drove me a bit crazy (not a long trip) over the last few days. No, it wasn’t the weekend snow or even the reports more are on the way. On Saturday night, my MP3 player died. You know things aren’t looking good when the message “Hard Drive Failure” appears when you […]
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Tonight I had tickets to the Stampede game and to the Jolie Holland concert. Since the Stampede played the same team Thursday night, I figured that was a fairly resolvable problem. Then I found out yesterday I would attend neither. Why? Tonight was the night selected to unveil the 2006 championship banner for my daughter’s […] Many (my wife included) might say I am oblivious to much that goes on around me. Today could serve as a case in point. I forgot (or hadn’t realized) that Monday is MLK Day until somebody mentioned over lunch that our office is closed Monday. It was like being handed a three-day weekend out of […] My New Year’s Eve tradition of the last several years — going to the Stampede hockey game — didn’t take place this year because the team they are supposed to play is snowed in elsewhere. At least the Wild game (and a decent one at that, against the NHL’s current #1 team) was on FSN […] Although I call it my traditional one, my Christmas greeting is not traditional in the standard sense of the word. But you gotta realize this is coming from someone whose kids remember John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” as being the Christmas song they heard most often at home while growing up. I call […] |
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