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Map Editor
I’ve been playing a lot of Colonization Classic. I like exploring. I like founding new colonies. I don’t like fighting with random maps. Some maps just don’t have enough land. That’s apparent pretty quickly. Some maps don’t have the right diversity of land. That takes longer and more exploration to decide. And some maps after…
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The Right Screwdriver
The boy next door asked for help removing a screw. He’s maybe eight so hasn’t developed a lot of muscle mass or spatial reasoning to get the torq right. He also had a screwdriver that looked like someone drove a tank over it. So I got a couple of appropriate screwdrivers and followed him to…
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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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Chastity
The rule in The Church is exclusive relations between a husband and a wife. Premarital and extra marital sex is out. Self service is not allowed. Porn is forbidden. And The Church won’t sanctify committed homosexual relations. But we aren’t Catholics or even Episcopalians. Impure sexual thoughts are not sinful and only become so if…
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Attention
The house is quiet but not my head. People want my attention. Sometimes that’s difficult. Sometimes I want theirs. It seems like that is difficult for almost everyone else. Attention takes energy. Complaining also takes energy. I try not to complain, but when people want my attention it is often to complain, so I hold…
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Bottlecaps
I just started a beer. I had an insignificant amount of trouble opening the bottle cap. It got me thinking of the video game Fallout. It’s a post-apocalyptic world where bottlecaps have become the primary currency. I don’t know how hard they are to make in this world but in the world of Fallout they…
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Work is Good
Work is good. Getting paid to work is even better. Being able to pay other people to work is even better than that. It’s not much of a philosophy, but Fuck Off, I do what I want. Stay Awesome, Stay Weird, or Stay Away!
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The Ritual
Ben and I have a ritual that comes with bedtime. He says “Diaper, Clothes, Pills, and Light Off,” and I put him to bed. Today he said “Diaper, Soda, Pills and Light Off” instead. I just won’t give him soda and pills at the same time. I gave him a choice between the two in…
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Comforters
In the winter I sleep with two comforters because the heat and the weight helps me sleep. Last night I was so hot and sweaty that I threw one of them on the floor and slept with just the remaining one. At one point or another the kids all used to sleep with actual weighted…
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