January 27, 2009
Zoe’s First Photos
Over the weekend, Zoe figured out that the little pink camera Santa brought is hers, and that she can take pictures of whatever she wants, whenever she wants.
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January 23, 2009
Birthday Message
Happy birthday, sweet Mocholate. I love you!
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January 22, 2009
I’m in class with Einstein
Another brilliant insight from a moron in my marketing class, also on the marketing strategy of eBay:
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January 21, 2009
I likes to learn real smart stuff
Before I began my graduate studies, I thought that having an undergrad degree was proof enough that one was ready to tackle higher education.
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January 20, 2009
Day of Change
Whether or not you voted for him, you must admit that much of the nation’s (nay, the world’s) hopes and dreams rest on his shoulders.
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January 18, 2009
In flight
Okay, maybe I lied. Maybe I did get a decent image of an eagle in flight. From browsing my initial thumbnails, I thought, “Well, shit, those are just too damn far away.” Then, just for the hell of it, after I posted I pulled one up and zoomed in. Then I zoomed some more. And some more. And then I fell in love with the 12 MP camera all over again. It’s not the best image in the world, but I’m amazed at how much it stays together even with an obscene amount of cropping.
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January 18, 2009
Confluence
Took The Bug up to Chain of Rocks Bridge this morning for Eagle Days. We met an 11-year-old bald eagle name McGuire, saw two young eagles in flight, walked the bridge, and Zozer got to stand in an actual eagle’s nest, but the highlight of her entire day was getting to ride the yellow school bus that shuttled us from the Missouri Visitor’s Center to the bridge and back.
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January 14, 2009
Takes all kinds, I s’pose
I don’t get it.
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January 13, 2009
“And what does your beater need today?”
Took the ZoeMobile in this morning for an oil change and other sundry maintenance work, and the service writer said, “Oh, you’re overdue for your 120,000 mile service.” I know this, since the little “maintenance required” light lit up at 120,000 and has burned brightly ever since. Because my dad is a mechanic (and because my car is a Honda and will run virtually forever), I know that I can, for the most part, skip these required maintenance reminders. The biggies, yeah, I gotta do. I think I did one at around 75,000. Maybe it was 100,000. I change the oil regularly and don’t do jackrabbit starts (unless M drives the car – grrrr) and the car is good and reliable and all that. So when the service writer started his usual spiel about the service I should get done, I sorta tuned him out and made a mental note to manually reset the light on my own. I know how to do that, having done it multiple times instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars for unnecessary maintenance work.
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January 12, 2009
In training
We made a very important purchase this weekend: training pants. For Zoe. (duh.)
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