Category: Ruminations
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Good news/bad news
Tonight was our last outdoor game for the season against the Rangers. For the 99% of you who have no idea who they are, they’re the soccer team that keep flipping back and forth between the lower division (which we’re at the bottom of) and the upper division (which we don’t even want to comprehend…
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Three-Day Weekends
Something that I take a certain degree of razzing over at work is my habit of using vacation days to create three-day weekends. This weekend is the second in 3 weeks that I lengthened, originally for a planned camping trip. Unfortunately I wound up not going, but given that it’s raining up there this weekend,…
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Trapped in the elevator
Yesterday I got trapped in an elevator at work for 30ish minutes. I’ve been stuck in elevators before, and if it weren’t for the fact that I had a pretty good feeling that I was going to get stuck, I would have lost faith in my theory that, much like being struck by lightning, you…
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Northern Escape
This weekend I fled up north with a friend from college to go back home with her. We grabbed lunch at Wild Chef and then started the trip up to Frankfort, which is a really small town on the lake about 3 hours north of Holland. There were two things I really liked about Frankfort.…
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How a month flies by
I knew I hadn’t posted in a while, but a month? Really? I feel like that’s a bit on the extreme side. Calendars don’t lie, though, so I suppose it really has been that long. So it’s been a busy month. Work has been crazy busy; Friday was the quietest I’ve seen things in weeks.…
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Farewell, iMac
A long time ago, back in 2006, I got my second Mac. It was a Core Duo iMac, and at the time it was the most tricked-out Mac you could get your hands on: half-terabyte hard drive, 2GB of RAM, 128MB dedicated graphics card, SuperDrive, and a 20″ screen. It took a week to ship…
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Friday Night Adventures
Before I talk about tonight, I should probably back it up a few days. It’s been an odd week. We’ll begin with Tuesday. Tuesday was a hard day to get through. After not really sticking to any kind of workout regimen the entire week prior due to laziness and a sunburn (mostly laziness), 5:30 came…
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June’s Forecast: Dry. Very, very dry.
Last night, following A-Team’s extension of it’s streak to 0-22, I was at an Applebees with a couple of guys from the soccer team and one of them asked me if I was giving up drinking for the month of June. I looked at him with a mix of skepticism and curiosity, and then proceeded…
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24
After last weekend’s beach adventure that saw the return of Cherry Man, I spent the last week recovering. Monday and Tuesday were given over to slathering massive amounts of green aloe vera gel on my sunburned face in a desperate attempt to try and speed the recovery process, and Wednesday and Thursday were spent shedding…
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The return of Cherry Man
Last summer I went to the beach…maybe twice. For someone who lives this close to the lake, that’s a positively shameful thing to say. Truth is I didn’t really feel like running around in a bathing suit. Last summer, though, my best friend took me up with him to his place on Lake Charlevoix, which…