Monday, April 18, 2011

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World On Fire X is now 6. He lost his first tooth last week. I'm still trying to figure out how to actually be a father.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

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Late in the evening Shot two weddings this weekend. Yesterday's was arguably the most lovedovey couple I've ever met. They were so c...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Vroom After a series of cars that each cost less than $1500, I finally decided to see about a car that had a few less miles. I know the PT i...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

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Hello everyone. I think I'm back here for a while. I'm finding that I don't really have an outlet for my thoughts anymore, and t...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

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How Did People Fix Computers Before The Internet? I have been trying to upgrade my RAM for weeks. Weeks. Every time I installed it, it faile...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

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Happiness Is A Warm Camera Especially if it's new! (well, refurbished. But it came from a store!) Of course, I've now discovered tha...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

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Great minds sometimes stop thinking I go see a different doctor this week, a supposed whiz kid when it comes to antidepressants. My therapis...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

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Of Things Old And New Welp, new president, and we're all still here. I voted for Mr. O, but really, I'd have been okay with McCain. ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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Have You Seen Me Lately? Yes, I know, it's been a while. I apologize to the four of you who read this, but life's been, well, crapta...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

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The end Grandpa was pronounced brain dead a little before 8:30 p.m. Friday. Grandma got to see him before the end, but in her physical and m...
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Thursday, December 25, 2008

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Grandpa My grandfather (adopted) was a complicated man. He was a soldier. He was an airman. He was an auto worker for well-nigh on 35 years....
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Saturday, December 06, 2008

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What was that? Thunder snow. That's what. First time in probably 20 years or more that I've seen lighting and heard thunder in the s...

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The Week Of Zippy Over the next three weeks, I will work five days. Yep. Five days. See, one of the issues when you only get comp time for o...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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Moving Right Along My life is work, work, work, Xander wrangling, work, sleep, repeat. I did see the new Bond film and liked it a lot, espec...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

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I'll Be Darned He did it. Hell, we did it.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Running On Half-Tank (Xander on a run to the playground at Sharon Woods today. First time I've seen him leave me behind. Though he did l...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

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So Very, Very True I'll have a real post one of these days. LEAF was great. I did, in fact, get the rain I wanted. I also, in fact, end...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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Weirdos Raise Your Hand *raise* In looking at the forecast for the LEAF this weekend, I bet I'm the only one in the group who is actual...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

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The Hell? So, I can tell there's something wrong in my head right now. Can't trace it. Can't describe it. Can't identify it....
Sunday, October 05, 2008

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The Long, Dark Teatime Of The Soul I'm there.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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Running On Constant Rewind I discovered two side effects to forgetting my drugs over the weekend. One, I found myself angry. Not really angr...
Monday, September 29, 2008

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Well, Nuts As of now, I've forgotten to take my anti-depressants since Friday. Yeah, I'm feeling really good right now >:P On th...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

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I Hate This I do. I really, really hate it. The problem with hate is that unless you can direct it at a person or task, it becomes very diff...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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Neutral I'd love to say lots is going on, but I've been working or watching X every moment since the damn Wind Storm Ike came throug...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

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Modified Anger Ok, currently I no longer need nor want the world to go fuck itself. At this point, I simply think one man deserves, at the v...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

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Won't Get Fooled Again? Ha! You know what? After tonight, the entire world can go fuck itself.
Friday, August 29, 2008

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Not The Same "You're not the same person who came to see me two weeks ago," my therapist said. "You're probably right...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

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More Proof That Therapists Don't Need To Tell Me I'm Nuts Xander and I are going to fly to my parents' house next month. That cl...
Friday, August 22, 2008

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And Now, For Something Completely Different... My grandparents are in the hospital...for different problems at the same time. I thought July...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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That S(hr)inking Feeling According to the fairly accurate scale at the Springdale Rec Center, today I weighed 218 pounds. Two months ago, I ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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OMFG It is now 1:32am, and this is the first time since 7pm that I haven't been throwing up or feeling like I would. On the flip side, m...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

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Onward and Upward I've finally upgraded my photography Web site to something a bit better than a single blogspot page. So now, QND Photo...
Monday, August 11, 2008

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Waiting... My life's kinda in a holding pattern these days. Squeaky's looking for an apartment, and when she finds one and moves out...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

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A Cautionary Tale So, yes, I did as badly as I thought I did. She thought I'd lost interest. I thought she was pushing me away. And neit...

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The Dead Zone When X was born, I went a bit off the deep end. I ended up seeing a therapist and the doctor, and they put me on Celexa. A var...
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Friday, August 01, 2008

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That's Me I always called it low self-esteem, or not thinking highly of myself. I've been like this since I was a child. Until tonig...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

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And The Hits Keep On Coming After a bit over seven years, Squeaky and I are separating. Although, thanks to financial issues, we'll stil...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

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One More Thing Hello, my name is Zippy Hendirez, and I'm a diabetic. I think I've managed to go through all the stages of grief twic...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

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Spring Has Sprung From the rose bushes in the side yard. Now I'm trying to get grass seed to turn into grass on the dead patch where the...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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Lost and Found Here's the long-lost photocopy of the one time that a photo of mine appeared in the New York Times. Found it while cleani...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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So, I've been at work since 7:30, unable to do any work. The main server in MN died in a power outage this morning. They haven't fix...
Sunday, May 04, 2008

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So Help Me... Squeaky's laptop wasn't working. Sent it to HP. They fixed it. Now, all of a sudden, the laptop says that it doesn...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Crikey. And then suddenly, it's almost May. I'm still here, folks. Just...here. Work is fine, Squeaky is fine, Xander's fine, Qu...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

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Odds And Ends From the random file: Please note the incredible price savings on this washer from Sears' outlet store: Whew. Squeaky was...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

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The Photo I Didn't Quite Take One of the neat things about digital photography is how you can change what is seen based upon what your c...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

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How To Get Around Pesky NCAA TV Regulations Duke sucks.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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Rain My first bus arrived three minutes early to pick me up, but dropped me off five minutes late. So I missed my second bus and stood in th...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

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Somewhere Between Here And There Yes, I still live, if barely. Currently listening to Genesis' concert in Cleveland this summer, courtes...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

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Happy Birthday Xander! Good lord, he's 3. We're doomed.
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Thursday, March 06, 2008

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Sunny Side Up The parking deck view as I came to work Thursday.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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Welcome To 38 So far, I've spent my birthday in meetings, arguing about a quote with the mayor of Cincinnati, watching snow flurries com...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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Wrong, Wrong, Wrong At least we don't do this to Quark. *shudder* (best moment: anchor asks "Is that a denim miniskirt?")
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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Have You Seen Me Lately? Geez, I really should keep up better than this. Let's see what's happened since Jan. 8...um...work, obvious...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

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Tempted By The Lens Of Another Playing cameras professionally can be a dangerous game. While there's always a chance of violence when yo...
Monday, December 31, 2007

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Here Comes Another Year! Run! Save Yourself! So here I am, waiting for 2008. I may even stay up that late, since I'm trying to figure ou...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

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The Sounds Of Christmas I thought it was a good idea. I still think it's mostly a good idea. But that cymbal is awful clangy...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

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Oh, Boy. It seems that I can't go more than a year or two without having to make a major decision about my employment future. In this ca...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

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Christmas Tree Time
Friday, December 07, 2007

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This week, on Look Before You Post Theater... Really, people, is this the best image to go with the story you're talking about?
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Here We Go Again Back in at 2 a.m. for another round of winter. Sleet and freezing rain, mainly. Did some old work on video segments that fa...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

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Midnight In The Garden Of Snow And Wind It's 1 a.m., and I'm at work, waiting for the White Death to arrive (also known as 1 to 3 in...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

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Almost Peace Serenity. I had it, if only briefly, today. The rain hadn't really stopped all day when I went out to catch the bus home. B...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

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And Welcome To Thanksgiving It's in the 30s and dropping outside my window as I "work" (seriously, folks, the news world scree...
Monday, November 19, 2007

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Sometimes, The Bus Is Strange There are certain regulars on my Metro route to and from work. One of them is a mentally-odd man who says noth...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

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Technerd Rides Again! Yeah, the smartphone? Fun. Maybe too much, but I'm sure I'll get used to having it and not spend every free mo...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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Joining The Rest Of The 21st Century So, now I have a smartphone. People were always amazed that I, running a TV station's Web site, did...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

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Jerry Goldsmith Is In Here Somewhere Some days with Xander, like today, I find myself wondering where the choir is that is singing "Ave...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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It's Raining Rain ... Hallelujah My wedding couple paid me the rest of the money, so that paid for groceries. It's raining, thank he...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

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False Alarm Also known as "fun with camera on bus ride home"
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Friday, October 12, 2007

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Okay, I Admit, I Love Lolcats ICanHasCheezburger.com is a daily must.
Saturday, October 06, 2007

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I Still Don't Like Weddings But, today's was much better feeling than previous ones. I can't say I shot it any better or worse, ...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

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I Haven't Got Time For The Pain I can't say I feel much better than the last time I wrote here. But I simply have too much to do to ...
Friday, September 21, 2007

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Who Am I, And What The Hell Am I Doing ? It's bad enough to not know who you are. It's equally bad to not know who you want to be. C...
Monday, September 17, 2007

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Here We Go Round Again I find comfort in the fact that same "lost blog" crap that happened to me here happened to Postsecret on Su...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

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Movie Night I didn't really have plans tonight. Squeaky's out practicing choir, and Xander's banging aroung in his crib before s...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

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Catching Up Good grief. I'm becoming rather bad at this, aren't I. Work is work. Yesterday, the main system by which we run the Web ...
Monday, September 03, 2007

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The Future's So Bright, I Can't Sleep Bowling Green beats Minnesota Clemson beats Florida State App. State beats Michigan. Unrelated...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

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The Birds Sing, The Heavens Open, And Lo, Kickoff Has Come In other words, college football season has begun. Ahhhhhhhhhhh......
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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Artificial Love As an occasionally-professional photographer/ videographer over the years, I have a certain affection for light and how it ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

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Mundane Wow. I haven't done much here lately. Beach trip home was good, thanks to the portable DVD player we bought for the car, just in...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

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The Beach Overall, I'd say Xander likes the beach He has to look stylish for the beach babes. A budding excavator I wasn't sure how...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

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Hot. Did I Mention Hot. I Did? Oh. BTW, Hot. Apparently, all the cool weather we had in July? We have to pay for it now. This week. Immediat...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

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... My parent company is in Mendota Heights, not very close to where the I-35W bridge fell into the Mississippi River tonight , but nonethel...

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Sunshine Day It's a tad warm outside today. (photographed at the intersection of Crescentville Road and Ohio State Route 747, West Chest...