Archive for the 'Firsts' Category

May 19 2008

That’s No Museum

(Note: This is the fifth in a series of posts about the first meeting of three online friends.)

At least one of you has looked at kids in those crawl tubes at fast-food restaurants and thought, “I wish they had that for adults.” On my recent trip to St. Louis, a unique place granted that [...]

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May 15 2008

Bagels, Beers, and the Butterfly

(Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the first meeting of three online friends.)
At age 37, I finally found a beer I like. More on that later.
The appetizing aroma of Moonshot’s Irish stew in the Crockpot welcomed us back from the Adrenaline Zone. Conversation wandered from our blogs to [...]

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May 14 2008

Demolition and the Old Men

Published by Mark Williams under Firsts, Fun, Travel, True Story

Note: This is the third in a series of posts about the first meeting between three online friends.
At Moksha Gren’s home — affectionately dubbed “the Grenstead,” we marveled at how we all looked in three dimensions. I was a bit surprised that we stood so close to the same height. Though I had [...]

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Apr 08 2008

A First and a Worst

This post is about two more firsts in my life — one just fine and one kind of scary.
Sunday afternoon, Ben and I joined He B and his son for a football game. It wasn’t NFL. Heck, it wasn’t even AFL. Nope, this was IFL.
For those I lost after the first acronym, [...]

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Mar 17 2008

The Sky Won’t Snow and the Sun Won’t Shine

Published by Mark Williams under Firsts, Sports, True Story

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How many sports encourage fan participation? I don’t mean doing the wave or catching a foul ball. I mean breaking up a play.
I attended such a game a couple weeks ago, and it has earned a [...]

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