Category: random
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Happy 4th, a new look…
We had a relaxing and outstanding 4th of July in Edmond, Oklahoma! One of the highlights of our local parade this morning was seeing Darth Vader riding a Segway!   Besides enjoying the company of family and friends as well as some good food today, I was thrilled to have time (at last) to update my WordPress…
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Oklahoma blogger
I am very stoked! After waiting about 2 months, my personalized Oklahoma license plates have arrived! 🙂 I had waited till my Texas plates expired in March to register my 4Runner in Oklahoma. State law requires personal license plate holders to also carry in their vehicle their original, state-assigned license plate. Unlike Texas, which has…
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, my wife and the mother of my children, my mother in law, and all the other moms out there! 🙂 With my mom and dad at MACE in March 2007. My beautiful wife on the beach in Holland, Michigan in April 2007. With Clara (my mother in law) in…
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Do you need a Second Life??
I will admit that I was (am still am) a bit skeptical about Second Life. It is NOT yet easy on the resources (I had to upgrade to 1gb of RAM and a new video card just to have it run on my pc – (grins) but my mac needed no upgrades), I was harassed…
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So when is daylight savings time?
My 6 year old and I have a father-daughter dance this weekend, and she was concerned this morning that daylight savings time might cause us some problems. (She’s been learning about DST at school lately.) We looked up daylight savings time on WikiPedia, and learned a great deal about the history of this time change…
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The joys of wood fires
It’s COLD in central Oklahoma tonight! One of the things I have enjoyed the most since moving to Oklahoma has been wood fires in the evenings. This is a picture of the fire I lit tonight and posted to Flickr: We’ve actually had SEVEN snow days so far this year (and many school districts in…
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5 Things You Wish You Did Or Didn’t Know About Me Meme
Thanks to Doug and Brian, I’m offering my own list… 1. In the summer of 1990 when I spent three weeks in England visiting the Upper Heyford Air Force base (then a host to USAF squadrons as well as RAF fliers) I got an incentive ride on a F-111. The weather that day was cloudy…
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Icebound!
We’re icebound in northern Oklahoma City (Edmond where I live) with snow expected later today. Winter is falling! The local weather and news people live for days like this I think. It’s like we’ve had a hurricane and the news reporters are on the coastline reporting as it makes landfall, or there is a war…
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Our need for more dialog in the face of fear
When the Columbine school shootings happened in 1999 I was teaching at Rush Elementary school in Lubbock, Texas. I remember the next day I was working with a class of first graders, and their teacher remarked to me that the students didn’t really understand where Columbine High School or Colorado was in relation to Lubbock,…
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If I had…
Often I think people look at life as something bounded by limitations rather than ripe with possibilities. I want to live my life in the latter condition, but sometimes I still think… If I had the money: I would pay off all our debts. I would take my wife to Jamaica. I would buy all…