Monthly Archives: December 2007

Graffiti Report Card

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The subject of graffiti often brings out strongly polarized reactions from urban dwellers, who either support it as art or criticize it as vandalism. Brandon Baunach of DesignCrack has developed a project based on an idea of Drew Heffron that has amazingly drawn both fire and criticism from both sides: Graffiti Report Card stickers [...]

I Stand Corrected

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Blogger appears to have added a linkback feature for its non “blogspot” commenters. They are not all bad after all.

Passed out over the Holidays

Out for Pizza: Fun With Captions

We took the kids out to pizza tonight. It’s one of those big places with games and prizes and such. I wrote a few captions to frame the pictures.Okay Dad, I’ll smile. After all, you brought me a lot of yummy desserts!

Daddy! My boot fell! sob sob.

Thanks for my boot [...]

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Author Dies: My first post ever

My First Post on this Blog: December 18, 2006

One Year Anniversary of this Blog

On December 18th, 2007 this blog rolled past the one year mark. It has been a remarkable year of learning and growing. After one year, I still have miles to go but three key aspects of the past year stand out as worth sharing about:

I’ve made some kind and talented friends through [...]

Strings of Street Lights, Even Stop Lights

Christmas Sanity Check: Ranting With a Purpose

7 days ’til Christmas …Thanks to my wife’s planning and our family’s efforts at frugality, this Christmas is going smoother than ever. Sarah started buying gifts three months ago and we’ve been really good about keeping them hidden. Tonight, she’ll be wrapping a few and in the next 7 days ’til Christmas we’ll [...]

Teaching Honesty

How honest is the world?
Politicians who say we are making progress in Iraq
A Court System that set O.J. Free
A government in denial about the national debt
American Idol represents “the best talent in the world.”
Santa Claus … ’nuff said
I teach my kids to be honest, however socially irrelevant it may be.

Salesman at my Door: Kirby Alert!

This afternoon about 3:45pm I got a knock on my door by a twenty-something male claiming to be from a new carpet cleaning place in Hesperia (a local city) and that to show what his company can do he wanted to clean our carpet for free.
Immediately I felt the urge to decline because frankly, [...]

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