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Entries from August 2009

Pretty quick progress!

August 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Cakes came home from her job at the restaurant and said that she had good news The manager asked her if she would train all of the new hostesses! She is only 16 and has only been working there for 3 months! I think they like her!

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Tags: Children

A great night in the sack

August 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Younger people might not be able to relate to this post… As I drove home from work this afternoon, it was all I could do to stay awake. (see previous post) All I was thinking about was going home and sleeping. I stopped by Costco to pick my wife up since her shift was over [...]

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Tags: Marriage

Having trouble tying my shoe

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Tough week sleeping Yesterday, I had a very bad headache that was making me feel nauseous. I left work 1 1/2 hours early, went and crawled into bed. One and a half hours later, I woke up with the same headache. Since it was 6:00, I decided against taking Excedrin PM. Instead, I took two Extra Strength Excedrin. Bad [...]

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I’ll take the second offer

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments

The other driver’s insurance company called me to inform me that they have declared the Honda a total loss. Excuse me while I wipe a few tears from my eye… I asked what they valued the car at “Given that the car had a leather interior, low miles (I didn’t say anything but this struck [...]

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Tags: Cars · Money

Not quite the same

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments

I have now driven a Hyundai for the first time. My wife picked up our white Hyundai Accent from Enterprise yesterday morning and I drove it to work this morning. It seems to be a reasonably well built econobox of  a car. Since it is a rental, the interior is merely functional. I’m grateful for the [...]

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Tags: Cars

A pleasant surprise

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments

I received a surprise tonight… something that has NEVER happened to me before… The other young man’s insurance company called to tell me that they were accepting 100% liability for the accident and would handle all of the costs! Wow! Am I glad we moved to Kansas! That is really great because we only had [...]

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Tags: Money

A trip down memory lane

August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

In August, 2004, my oldest daughter drove our new Ford Windstar for her first day of classes at the local community college. My son was with her because we had just learned that. although he was just 14, he qualified to enroll in a college Algebra class. Our youngest daughter was also in the car. [...]

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Tags: Cars · Money · Parenting · Travel

Somebody didn’t get the message

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments

My daughter started school this week. She is going to be pretty busy this year. She has 6 classes at the high school, her Great Books class on the Internet, will be mentoring incoming freshman and working two jobs! We decided that she could continue work at the restaurant Wednesday (because school doesn’t start until 8:30 [...]

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Tags: Work

She should have listened to me…

August 18th, 2009 · No Comments

I came home from work tonight and saw a fairly large box sitting in the living room. I wonder what that is? I don’t remember ordering anything… I don’t remember anyone else talking to me about ordering anything… It turns out that it is my son’s linens for college. Now I know why my wife [...]

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Tags: Marriage · Money

That’s why we don’t come here anymore

August 16th, 2009 · No Comments

We visited our 9th church today. We liked the 8th one very much but it is an hour drive. Today’s church was planted by the 8th church so we went with high hopes… Since the church was near the Plaza (the country’s first outdoor mall), I decided that we should take in the scenery. Well, [...]

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Tags: Marriage · Money