Category: holidays
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Sleeping During an Attack
Today is the 25th anniversary of terrorists taking over commercial jet liners and flying them into American symbols of capitalism and war. Some people wept that day. Some people cheered. I was asleep. I vaguely remember being woken up with news of the attack and rolling back over to sleep. I simply didn’t believe it…
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Degrees of Order
There is chaos in the system. Imperfections. We recognize order because we have chaos for a comparison. We understand degrees of order when we understand degrees of disorder. Entropy is real. Everything cascades to chaos. Heat death. Human beings see entropy and we struggle against it. We imagine forms of life where our thoughts and…
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Family Meal
For several days I have wanted pizza. Stephanie and William came over today and I suggested Domino’s. Everyone agreed. I got a pizza, Alex got a pizza, William got a pizza, Ben got boneless chicken, and Stephanie got baked cheese pasta. We all got a soda. Brandon is in Indiana with Nevaeh today but he…
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Voting Democrat
Today is the primary election in the state of Wisconsin. Our governor, one of our senators, and the house representative for my district will all be chosen in November. Wisconsin has an open primary so I can vote in the primary of any one party. The ballot had Republican, Democrat, Constitution, Libertarian, and Green choices.…
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Fifteen Minutes at a Time
I don’t get to watch a whole movie very often. There is usually a chore, a child, or a chore for a child that seems more urgent than sitting and watching a moving picture. Today I got to watch fifteen minutes of The Dark Crystal. Ogra has always been my favorite character and it was…
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A Rainy Third
Tomorrow is Independence Day in the US. People celebrate by blowing stuff up. It’s an American tradition. It’s rainy tonight so not many people are out with fireworks. The kid next door said his dad already set off all the good ones. There were some real doosies. The rain means tomorrow’s city celebration won’t be…
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Not Garbage Day
The truck didn’t come today to pick up the garbage I put on the curb. In retrospect I shouldn’t be surprised. When there’s a holiday everything gets moved forward to the next day. I just wasn’t thinking when I put garbage out last night. Memorial Day bumped it until tomorrow. It’s not garbage day.
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Holidays
Memorial Day weekend is here and my biggest concern is getting everyone in the house before night fall and crazy partiers race through darkened streets. I’m relatively certain the boys won’t jump in front of traffic. I am less convinced that the cats know better. Ether just came in a few minutes ago so everyone…
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Intoxicated
I don’t have anything to go out of the house for tomorrow, so I am intoxicated tonight. This is becoming pretty typical for my Friday nights. Just mellow. Fed, fasting, and mellow. Stay Awesome, Stay Weird, or Stay Away.
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Jesus’s Birthday
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was founded on April 6th, 1830. While it is not canonical, some Mormons including myself believe this happened on Jesus’s Birthday. The Christmas date just makes less and less sense to me as time goes on. Why were shepards in the field with their flocks in…
