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Just over one week ago, August 6th 2009, we packed the family into our van and made the four hour drive to Washington D.C.

Gareth repeatedly asked to see the White House, elephants, and pandas. How could we deny him the excitement of seeing all three? In order to streamline our ( Read more... )

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“The sky is falling, the sky is falling!” Chicken Little’s famous phrase of impending catastrophe sums up rather well the current upswing in citizen unrest mostly among our conservative population. But that isn’t the phrase that is being bandied about. No, instead, “socialist”, “Big ( Read more... )

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Back when I thought I’d spend the rest of my life paddling around in a kayak, my biggest frustration was that there was nothing locally geared towards bringing like-minded paddlers together to keep each other company and teach one another.

As is usual, I toyed with the idea of ( Read more... )

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I’ve been tasked with translating some letters from a father to his son. Written in 1944. In Germany. It’s interesting to go through the translation and then match things up with history. I figured somebody else might be interested, so here is the first letter I’ve completed.

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RBR is taking me to Interbike this year. Flying me out, putting me up, and letting me geek out at the nation’s biggest bike industry show.

Of course, I’ll be working while in Vegas. We’re planning to do daily show reports, photos, and possibly video interviews with various company ( Read more... )

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Brandy and I sat down last night to watch a movie, something we do with decreasing frequency due to the demands of a two child household that is also inhabited by an adult dependent. It’s tough to find time to squeeze in two hours for passive entertainment.

But last night, we did ( Read more... )

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I was having some trouble with RokBox and RokNewsRotator. On the CRBC site, we use RokBox to display inset thumbnails for expansion directly from our Section and Category pages, but since we do the inset first in the content, RokNewsRotator was stripping out the tags and leaving the ( Read more... )

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In the run-up to Mother’s Day, Gareth let me know that he wanted to bake chocolate chip cookies for Mom. This sounded like a perfectly wonderful idea to me as Gareth and I had never baked together before and because I knew there would be plenty of leftover cookies for me to eat.

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I've been busy pimping the Keystone Country MS-150 ride. This year, I'm an actual participant.

The reason I've been talking about it everywhere (except here, where I completely forgot to mention it) is that I'm raising money as part of the ride. Each participant needs to raise $250 for MS research and support, and with 3 months to go, I'm a mere ( Read more... )