In previous years, the unholy trinity of rain, cold and excessive darkness kept me off the bike from early October through late March. I used the numerous cycling events as a carrot to encourage me to get back on the saddle. However, this year I’ve had no problem biking during the winter thanks to the […]
I’ve seen various incantations of this “learn more about your friends” meme going around. Here are some of the responses.
My daughter received Clue Mysteries” for Christmas. It’s a spinoff of the venerable Clue. There are fifty gamelets whose solutions depend upon proper setting of these little wheels on each character that players have to “interview” using secret decoder tools. It’s a bit cumbersome, but she digs it, which is what really counts. One day
Ouch. (Hat tip to Steve Leahy.)
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A “pox party” is where parents deliberately infect their kids with chicken pox so they’ll become immune sooner than later. We had planned to have two one-child families over for dinner Saturday evening, but Family A decided to send their kid to a pox party earlier in the week. My kids had the vaccination, but
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I registered for permanent absentee voting because I don’t enjoy rushing to find my polling place before it closes. Okay, really it’s because there are too many elections. November is the easy-to-remember one because of all those primo election signs. Once every four years, we have the bumper crop (presidential election). The other three are
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There was an interesting discussion on the Cascade Bulletin Board speculating whether a ticket received for a bicycling infraction would cause your auto insurance rates go up? Short answer… no.
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