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People often ask me why I’m so happy all the time, so I’ll tell you so you people can be happy as well. The key to a happy life is negative thinking, I know that doesn’t make sense, but bare with me it’s what makes people happy. If you are able to expect worse than [...]

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Gamma outsmarted the rest of us again. We were all at home, in our home office, standing around the PC looking at the website of a local reality show and, big mistake, ignoring Gamma. · · · She is a quick learner, and knows to seize an opportunity when it presents itself. After a couple [...]

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If there’s one way the daughter does not take after me (besides that whole American Idol thing), it’s that she does not like to read. She says that reading just isn’t “her thing” and that she should not be forced to pick up a book for pleasure when she has to read so much “junk” [...]

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It was time to wash my son’s blanket. You know it’s time to undertake such things when inanimate objects begin to develop their own personalities. J’s blanket had had a blast this summer. It got to go on camping trips, took numerous outings to grandma’s house; it got to ride in the car, see the [...]

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I was just at the local What-passes-for-a-supermarket-in-Vienna where I bought two 500cc bottles of Diet Coke, bananas and Kaiser Alexander pears. No idea who Kaiser Alexander was, but his pears look like little butts. I was going to show you here, I even scanned one in on my office scanner, but it didn’t capture the… [...]

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