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June 15, 2009

A Weekend With The Boys – Part II

In my previous post I detailed the events of Friday and Saturday evening with my boys. By my count Super Dad (yours truly) was behind in the scoring 2 to 4. I’d been beaten pretty badly but I hit the ground running on Sunday morning ready for a comeback. Twitter/Facebook Update And so it begins…

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June 15, 2009

A Weekend With The Boys – Part I

First off… This is not going to be a story about drinking with my buddies at the bar. When I refer to “the boys” in the title here I’m actually referring to MY boys. If you’re looking for a “drinking with the boys” story, you’ll have to wait a couple of weeks. My brother is

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June 8, 2009

One Crazy Weekend

It’s Monday after a busy weekend — time to reflect. Fun ‘n’ Stuff – A Good Start I suppose the most logical place to start would be on Friday – afternoon to be precise. I took the afternoon off to attend the last of the G-man’s 3rd Birthday parties. We decided to have it at

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May 5, 2009

Going Green Or Going To Hell???

One of the biggest thrills in my (nearly) 3 year old’s life is helping daddy take the garbage out on Monday night. He talks about it all week long and then gets so excited when the day comes. We go from room to room collecting the garbage and the recycling and then make multiple trips

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April 22, 2009

Rainy Wednesday Morning Musings

There is a car across the street from my office with it’s alarm going off. This has been occurring about every 12 minutes for the past 3 days. This is rather annoying. I’m currently thinking of ways to wipe this car from the face of the Earth. Both the Indians and Cavs appeared to be

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March 23, 2009

Stuff I’ve Learned Recently

It’s amazing the things you learn when you’re a first time dad. Here are a few things that I’ve recently learned. And I thought I had this whole parenting thing licked… Once a child learns that they can get out of their crib, they will do so… 3,427 times a night. Buying a new lock

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March 2, 2009

Weekend Knowledge Gains…

We’re learning all the time right? This weekend was no different. Here’s just a small sampling of stuff that I either determined as truths for the first time or reaffirmed based on very specific examples… When you have no “plans” for the weekend you’ll look back on Monday morning and realize just how tiring doing

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February 17, 2009

Things I Learned This Weekend

I’m sure everyone out there on the Interweb loves to read about my crap. I had a couple of interesting/funny things happen this past weekend… enjoy! A smoothie, when spilled by a two and a half year old, will splatter all over the floor, table, walls & windows. When said smoothie is mopped up it