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Phamily Foto Phriday 7-2-16 (Car Show & Vacation Start)

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Phamily Foto Phriday 7-2-16 (Car Show & Vacation Start)

Alright, so it’s actually Saturday, and I haven’t posted anything since we started our vacation, and these pictures aren’t even of us on vacation, but I wanted to get these posted and out of the way so I can start with the vacation pictures proper without this hanging over my head. The day before we left…

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Phamily Foto Phriday 6-24-16

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Phamily Foto Phriday 6-24-16

No “last day of school” pictures from me. I do pictures on the first day and I figure that’s good enough. Besides, I’m snapping pictures of the kids all the time. At least, I’m trying to. A couple of weeks ago one of the boys in August’s Boy Scout troop was working on his Eagle…

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Summer Vacation, Kicking Ass, And Corralling Children (or not)

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Summer Vacation, Kicking Ass, And Corralling Children (or not)

We are a week into summer vacation and I feel as if I have already lost the battle. Maybe those are not the correct words to use, but that is how I feel. Battle-weary. Last Tuesday was the last day, a short day, and it went well enough. The following morning I had to get…

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Music Monday: Eurythmics (Part 2)

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Music Monday: Eurythmics (Part 2)

I have always liked The Eurythmics. I was introduced to them, as most people were, through the single “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These)” and its corresponding music video. It may have been a bit unusual to see a woman appearing like that int he music video in 1983, but when the band appeared on…

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Phamily Foto Phriday 6-10-16

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Phamily Foto Phriday 6-10-16

Not a lot today. Dela had a massive dance recital as well as a gymnastics meet but none of those pictures turned out. Ciaran and Xavier both ended their baseball and t-ball seasons and the pictures of those didn’t turn out usable as well. Here are the pictures that did turn out. August and I…

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May 2016 Geek Fuel

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May 2016 Geek Fuel

This was the most disappointing box, but that’s not saying too much. August likes the Geek Fuel subscription boxes each month and there were still things in this box he liked but overall this one for the most part missed the mark. Let’s start with the shirt. It’s a Game Of Thrones shirt, which doesn’t…

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Phamily Foto Phriday 6-3-16

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Phamily Foto Phriday 6-3-16

I know it’s been a couple of weeks but I don’t feel too bad about it because I  have posted a few pictures such as from Camporee and the Mariners game during the interval. To that end this is going to focus on the 2 year old for the most part. But not all. Let’s start…

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St. Petersburg On the Road

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St. Petersburg On the Road

It was 1995 and Laura and I were travelling around the world. Literally. From Seattle I met up with her in Hong Kong, we took the train from Beijing to Moscow, then to St. Petersburg. We would eventually move on to Warsaw, Berlin, Paris then Amsterdam before flying home, but it is a story from…

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A Different Childhood

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A Different Childhood

When I was 10 years old Saturdays meant cartoons and afternoon movies. I would wake up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons such as “Super Friends”, “Hong Kong Phooey”, “Land Of The Lost” or “Speed Buggy”. The afternoons would be spent perhaps at a movie theater, but mostly watching the local stations broadcast their weekly…

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Music Monday: Oingo Boingo

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Music Monday: Oingo Boingo

I remember distinctly my introduction to Oingo Boingo. It was some point in the early 80s and it was Saturday morning, perhaps Sunday, but most likely Saturday. It would be late morning or early afternoon. There was a show on sort of like “American Bandstand” or “Soul Train” but probably a local show, not nationally syndicated. The…

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