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This is the quietest moment I've had with him all day.
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TIL That National Donut Day is a thing. And that Krispy Kreme is giving away donuts. Also, stay away from Krispy Kreme in National Donut Day.
Gaming
How Free Is Free?
I started playing Warframe for the first time after reading this re-review on PCGamer. I had heard of it a while ago. At least two of my Destiny buddies gave it a whirl during one of Destiny's many droughts. I usually had something else that was occupying
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Great Expectations
Kid B: C'mon, Dad, dance with us! Me: Oh, I don't dance. Kid B: But you're a ROCK STAR!
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I have an old wooden bird house. I've had it for years. My grandfather made it. It's been hanging in the apple tree outside the kitchen window, more as a decoration really, but this morning I noticed that a house wren was nesting in it, and
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God, what a day. I was just reading last night about "spoons", a unit of psychic energy that you need to overcome obstacles. You only get so many spoons a day, and once you've gone through them, then everything becomes a crisis. And man, did I
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Wonderful meal at Dino's in West Des Moines tonight. Pork medallions on a fried rice cake. Nice Yelp find.
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Even when Trump is gone, the corruption of a significant percent of the American population, those with whom we don’t merely disagree on principles and goals, but on reality itself, will be a lingering problem. They are weaponized minds, and their hate, as hate always is, is easily directed.
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Sorry about that exposed "more" block in the past post. I forgot to mark it as raw source before publishing.
blogs
We All Need Someone to Lean On
My friend's sister lost her husband this year to cancer. The sister writes a beautiful blog, Homemade Time, that started before he got sick, recounting their lives together with their three kids, but she kept blogging after the cancer arrived, and continued through his death this spring. She&
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To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. --The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being