In the heart of Jackson’s Purchase, ‘neath the sun’s warm glow

Is the home of Murray State, who had the terrible misfortune of playing Louisville for its football opener yesterday. Take a guess at the score. Recall that Louisville still has Brian Brohm and is starting the season at #10. Go ahead, take a guess. Ruminate on the fact that my poor [...]

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Shaaaaame! Shaaa… oh, whatever

Apparently not enough of you are Protestant to be moved appropriately by the threat of shaming. We’ll try guilt next.The weather has changed, and boy does that induce a switch to optimism about damn near everything quicker than anything else I can think of. I’m even running up to campus with a lunch [...]

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Blarg

Not enough of you (my four loyal readers) have offered up suggestions for the dance hit fever that will most certainly be the O’Zee nuptial extravaganza. I hereby shame thee in the hopes that shame will induce thee to offer up more dance hits. Shame! Shaaaaaame!!!

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it…

Because of a desire to replicate the success of last Friday’s farewell-to-K impromptu dance party, Zee and I thought it might be a fantastic idea to communally create a list of super-awesome, must-have, high-energy, ACL-bustin’ dancing songs for their upcoming nuptial throwdown. Since their wedding is really all about me, I thought it would [...]

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There’s no such thing as safe typing, there’s only safer typing…

After long and thoughtful discussions about all the possible consequences, physical and emotional, of laptop computing, Zee gave me a condom for my MacBook. I feel so much better knowing that she cares enough to protect us both.And that, friends, is a fine example of a joke taken just a smidge too far. [...]

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Budgets are just so much darn fun!

Take for example the end of the month, when you’ve spent every bit of discretionary cash you had and need to figure out how to make it through to Friday without buying anything but gas for the car. Vegetarianism, here we come! We had an extra expense this month that I didn’t remember [...]

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Yum.

La-di-da, whatever am I going to do with all these apples? I could make that apple cake that Mom makes, which I know is really good, or I could make a cake that takes just as many apples, but is compressed into a 9″ springform rather than a giant bundt cake that would take [...]

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Oh, thank goodness

It’s raining again. In the few hours of drought we had yesterday, the front yard nearly dried up. What a relief that another storm came through! …aaaaand in the process, dropped a bunch of smaller limbs on the house, grill, and pretty much anything but the actual ground. This is what [...]

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Thursday produce!

The red-pink fruits in the front, just in case you can’t see them well, are apples, nectarines, and peaches. I said no cucumbers, but we got more cucumbers (not that I’m complaining, especially after sampling SO’B’s refrigerator pickles, against which Spouse does NOT have a vendetta). And a watermelon. Praise Jesus, a [...]

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Sneezy and dopey, followed by learnin’ and commands.

I’ve had the allergy sneezes for a few weeks now, and they don’t seem to care if I’m in the house, outside (which is roughly the same air, anyway), at the library, at the beach, or anywhere. Am I allergic to myself? And I would think that the near-constant rain would tamp down [...]

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