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A day without light is like …

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Steve

… night. And now it is night.

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Back in my day …

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Steve

… I would be embarrassed to turn in radically unreadable and incorrect papers/essays/homework for a grade.

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That’s all she wrote …

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Steve

That’s how the production ends — not with bang, but with a whimper. But what a whimper it was.

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The problem with 3-night theater productions, like ours, is that they tend to lose steam on the 2nd night, especially if the 1st was a success. You become satisfied. Self-satisfied. It’s hard to keep it up, it’s hard to believe, … Continue reading →

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Caught up … again. Sort of.

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Steve

By “caught up” I mean with regard to TV — Lost, Doctor Who, and Heroes.

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Reunion: Monday mini-update

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Steve

I had hours left to kill at LAX before my 11:15 (10:30 boarding) flight to Chicago, the dreaded red-eye.

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Said the barista; “Oh my god … oh. You didn’t hear that.”

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Steve

As for the barista, who served me my coffee but was cleaning up near the window when he said that, I think he was partaking of a little people-watching as a particularly attractive young woman walked by.

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It was shorts and mini-skirts weather.

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Steve

The day in review:

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At $0.49 per pound …

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Steve

… I found it difficult to say no to a pound and a half of bulk milk chocolate on sale at Woodman’s. I think I paid about $0.78 for it. A big block. I planned and still plan on baking … Continue reading →

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So, 30+ dead a Va. Tech.

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Steve

I taught in a relatively quiet classroom by comparison; my class of 15 (14 today) would have been small-pickins for a would-be-gunman.

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