Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Beautiful Letdown, Part 4: The House Next Door

We turned into the driveway to see a house with no apparent entrance! Two closed garage doors greeted me with a French door to the left. However that door has no access unless I wanted to walk alongside of the … Continue reading

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The Beautiful Letdown, Part 3: Offroading adventure

So Dodgeball and I drove to the house “right next to the church.” As soon as we reached the dirt part of the road, I found myself driving on a levee with a lake on both sides. And this road … Continue reading

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The Beautiful Letdown, Part 2: Blondie’s directions

Realizing that I couldn’t change undo the dodge ball game, I refocused my attention on carrying out my plan and called my daughter to get directions to her location. This is what I heard: “Well, you make a right out … Continue reading

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The Beautiful Letdown, Part 1: The Missing Brain

Ah, the joy of  parenting young adults! Their bodies and brains are still changing, growing and maturing. I had planned to pick my son up from school at 3:00, pick my daughter up from her school at 3:30 and then … Continue reading

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Hi, I’m Sven

Man, I was Mr. Mom this morning! I woke my son up, made his lunch, took him to the grocery store to buy snacks for his class, dropped him off at school, returned home woke my wife and daughter up, … Continue reading

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Mo-West

I told you of our fortuitous introduction to the Mo-West wrestling club… Well, I learned a little more about the level of competition that my son is learning in. There are 7 national champions of some sort in the room. There are several … Continue reading

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Almost like Someone knew…

Wow! Wow! Wow! My son and I went to the apartment office to check out racquetball equipment this afternoon. We were greeted by one of the women who worked so hard to get our application approved and processed so quickly. … Continue reading

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Bruins Break Wind

Watched the Bruins get handled by Memphis in the NCAA tournament with some KU fans. Now I can’t wear my UCLA windbreaker with quite as much pride now.

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A nice coincidence

Talk about a nice coincidence. Everyone has off today! Both of my children are off from each of their schools and my wife doesn’t have to work. And I am currently unemployed. So, we all slept in and had a … Continue reading

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Moving again!

We moved in today. Seems like I have done this before. Just recently actually!!! Yesterday, I STARTED looking for an apartment at about 1:00 P.M. All of the documentation and verification was completed by 6:00 P.M. last night! This morning, … Continue reading

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