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Grand Canyon West - The World's First Tree Museum
When I first heard about The Grand Canyon Skywalk, I have to say - I was impressed. No, not just impressed - excited! The web site and Snopes article made it seem to me like it would be a job done right - a tremendous engineering achievement that respected the natural beauty of one of the natural wonders of the world. What my wife and I found was ( Read more... ) -
Brian's Terrible Two's
Got this from misty_moonlightTwo Names You Go By ( Read more... ) -
Unopened Birthday Gifts
To my dear son, Collin ( Read more... ) -
The Treasures of Marriage
I rather regularly think about how I've changed over the last...well, going on 2 years now, since I first got together online with my wife, Peggy. Growth is funny - day by day, it's rather unnoticeable. Your finger nails get a millimeter longer, your hair grows out imperceptibly, a new gray hair begins to make it's way silently towards the surface ( Read more... ) -
En Passant
At work I walked right on through (and kept walking) the following piece of a conversation between two people ( Read more... ) -
Backing into WIP
Today at work I did a lot of polishing and refinement on a system and idea I'd devised to measure the department's progress. The system works like this ( Read more... ) -
21 Years and No Quixote!
For a person who is so very enamored by the dictionary, and who use to thoroughly enjoy grabbing a volume of the encycopedia in school and burning away whatever free time was available by perusing it - especially relishing chances to find new and interesting words, like peruse and relish - it was not until today when my wife, Peggy, told me to ( Read more... ) -
The Nerve! The Sheer, Unabashed Nerve!
I for one am utterly scandalized! Just this moment I discovered that there are 13 communities and 448 people who are interested in my wife!Not that I'm not rediculously proud, as always...but I must say I have a most odd sort of conflict. On the one hand, this interest strokes my ego and releases fuzzy-sorts of hormones - on the other hand, I want ( Read more... ) -
Zen Koan from the Plutarckian School
Where are all the baby pigeons?