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max (my 11 year-old son) wrote a great blog post expressing his frustration over the results of nickelodian’s kids choice awards (which he had been in anticipation of for weeks). pretty funny reading. here’s a snippet: for best movie, the nominees were: iron man bedtime stories high school musical 3 dark knight guess what one [...]
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the weekend that was: it was a wonderful and relaxing weekend at home (though still full of stuff). friday night, my friend john and i attended a dad’s pizza party at our kids’ school. it was ok. neither of us were jazzed to go, but felt we should support the effort. i don’t have a [...]
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right. so, i don’t really have a clue what’s going on in this japanese game show. i certainly don’t know why they’re dressed like they are, or why the host has that urban cowboy get-up on. but i DO understand they’re supposed to jump over the increasingly massive rolling log things (which becomes completely impossible), [...]
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the weekend that was: busier weekend than the last few, and only semi-home. friday night was a good chill night for me and max. we went out to dinner together, then to see race to witch mountain (which was in that “didn’t suck too bad” zone that parents of children hope for in movies these [...]
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the weekend that was: my weekend was mostly re-entry from a week out. i’d been up at forest home camp, NE of LA, all week. the second half of that week was a personal silent retreat, which went through early saturday morning. that morning, i drove back to san diego, straight to my church, where [...]
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the weekend that was: it was a nice weekend at home. pretty chill, though not totally empty. we had an out-of-town guest (a good friend) here for the weekend, and she and jeannie and i went out for mediterranean food friday night (i do likes me some shawarma, nan bread and baby ganoush). saturday, max [...]
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my friend kurt johnston didn’t set up his “things that bother me” post as a meme, nor did he tag me; i just felt like copying the idea and creating my own list! The Power of the TSA i am regularly annoyed by the combination of incompetence and power of the lovely employees of the [...]
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the weekend that was: got home from grand rapids on friday night, late; but saturday and sunday we chillage. did a bunch of errands and jobs around the house; but mainly relaxed. saturday night, we had a family evening, with our traditional pick-up stix for me, jeannie and liesl, and carl’s jr for max. we [...]
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the weekend that was: i was in san juan, puerto rico, for the ys youth worker event there. wonderful time, with 750 youth workers from across the denominational spectrum. i’d not been to puerto rico before, and really loved it. being part of the united states, it’s a very easy place to be a non-spanish [...]
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