Regular Life

Regular toothpick offends cinnamons everywhere by putting on face makeup.*
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Popping open a miniature can of Cinnamon Altoids last week, I remembered cinnamon toothpicks. You ever have those as a kid?
If you’re thinking of the dry, paper-wrapped mint toothpicks at a restaurant, then you’re nowhere close. These picks were sopping wet and [...]

Phone line down from who knows when until 11:50 p.m.
Realized it at 9:30,
After putting the boy to bed.
DSL was dead along with it.
Moved music files from random locations
To my external hard drive.
Been meaning to do that.
Centralized aural fixation.
Ate the yogurt from the cup on the desk,
Because my apple made me hungry.
It isn’t just me — [...]

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Now that’s good sharing.
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I’m determined to take back Halloween. Here’s how the day went for us this year. Not saying it was bad, but it’s time for a re-direct.
I was off work all day October 31 to take part in the Halloween festivities planned for our son.
First, at 10:30 we went [...]

Behind Benjamin is the one scene we allow him from this movie.
What is it? (click to enlarge and sharpen)
Benjamin holds up his Runts candies in the picture above. He also got a small package of Gummi Life Savers on Halloween.
At some point over the weekend he asked for his, “Gummi Light Sabers.”
Of course, I swelled [...]

If you haven’t heard this and you are or have been the parent of at least a three or four-year-old, then you will get a kick out of it and maybe even be moved by the time he finishes. It has been played more than a million times so far and has been played on [...]

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Play before bedtime on Halloween.
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We didn’t ask for much. We just wanted to pick out what we needed, pay for it, and go home. The night before Halloween, my wife needed to buy 21 [...]