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. . .like maybe this guy.
Because if you’re not, I’ll guarentee you couldn’t care less. Only read this if you’re absolutely sure you have nothing better to do.
Come to think of it, even if you are a VLAR (very loyal and alert reader), you probably don’t care about what’s to follow. In fact […]

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The picture above is of my family (minus me, I’m taking the picture . . .duh) and Will Steger. It was taken at this year’s St. Paul Winter Carnival in January. The temperature that day was about 5 degrees and the wind was really kicking out of the north, so the wind chill was actually […]

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I love great movie speeches. Don’t you? Here are maybe my four top movie speeches of all time–as I remember them.
Though you may have to forgive me. The seventh graders down the hall started dissecting things this week. I may be a little foggy on exact wording for a few of these.
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Students. You gotta love ‘em. Sometimes they write the darndest things (these students are mine, these aren’t).
And sometimes they say the darndest things. The context of this assignment is a presentation for a speech class. The assignment was for each group to present a newscast complete with visuals (via powerpoint), sports, news, […]

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A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine received a very exciting email informing him that he’d won a huge amount of money from some odd (but very official sounding) oversees organization. They didn’t ask for any personal information so my friend replied, thanked them, and let them know he couldn’t […]

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Ok.
Ever do something you knew was stupid, and a complete waste of time, but you just couldn’t help yourself?
Yeah, me too.
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I’m putting on my academic “teacher” hat now so if that sort of thing bores you, consider yourself warned.
Shoo. Scram. Get lost.
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From the guide to excellent blogging:
Rule #24–Never recycle a forwarded email.  It’s tacky.
So sue me. It’s not like I’ve been Mister Postalot lately and I could actually relate to a quite a few of these. Plus I think they’re funny and haven’t seen them anywhere else yet.
And #8 sounded suspiciously familiar.
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1) I hardly ever watch the news anymore (or tv at all for that matter), but my head was all gunked up last night and I didn’t have any energy so I plunked down and caught almost all of Katie Couric’s CBS (or is it ABC–shows my ignorance) newscast.
I noticed a couple of things–above and […]

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I was furious. But I think you would have been too.
It was early June, two years ago, and we had just gotten back from a family vacation. Every summer we make a trip to Birchwood, Wisconsin with Lisa’s parents, Margaret and Conrad. We share a cabin at the Fred Thomas Resort. […]

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