Post topic suggested by Julie — possibly a cry to the masses for an intervention. You be the judge. Let’s be clear: I hate shopping. That’s all there is to it. Well, unless we’re talking a store that carries power tools and lumber. There is that one exception. I mean, who doesn’t enjoy sifting through PVC […]

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Our blogging has tapered wayyyyyyyy off, we realize. Partly, I think, that’s because we just haven’t been putting our cameras to heavy use of late, and we’d gotten to where we were relying on pictures for inspiration. That…and we’ve had quite a bit going on. So, in no particular order — not even sequential: My […]

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Intrigued by the title? Prepare to possibly be alarmed by a brief glimpse inside my brain. Julie is providing some of the writing in this post, but, to be fair to her, she doesn’t know the full context, and she’s a little leery about the exercise. We’ll see how it goes. I suspect it will […]

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“So, Tim, what exactly is it that you do?” Various ways I’ve tried to give quick, yet accurate, answers: “I work with data” “I work in marketing” “Data management” “Data warehousing and business intelligence” Sadly, most of the people who get one of these responses insist on probing for more information. And genuinely regret the decision […]

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The male relatives in my family have a certain reluctance to actually post comments on this blog, but I often get e-mail responses to specific posts. In the case of my no-knead bread tale from a couple of days ago, I got two such comments, both of which warrant posting publicly: From the male half of […]

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It’s a twisting, sordid tale, too long to be called short, and yet too short to truly be called long. It all started with a couple of blog posts from a friend and former co-worker about her recent trials and tribulations with a no-knead bread recipe. I clicked through on her link and read the […]

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Clearly, I wasn’t blogging! We’ve got a slew of photos/experiences to document — Halloween, a trip to West Virginia, and Julie and Alana’s trip to Colorado. Exciting stuff. But, I’ve been almost-all-consumed by seeing how much headway I could make on a built-in bookcase/window seat in our family office. Julie picked the basic design out of […]

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With Tim’s return from Austin late Friday night, we headed into the weekend ready to hang out at home.  After Carson and I went to his 9:00 am soccer game, we spent some quality time at home doing projects, building things, and playing.  These pictures capture a little bit of what the the day held…… […]

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That’s right…THIS is the final post in my write-up/reflections on my 1993 thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, which culminated on October 10, 1993. I figured I should probably reflect a little bit, so I’ll do that in bulleted form: Towards the end of the hike, a common shelter conversation was, “Would you want to do […]

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This is a 5-month long series of blog posts that are the entries in my journals written on most evenings as I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1993. The journal entry appears first — indented — and then any additional commentary from my 15-years-removed perspective follows. This is my third and final “recollection” journal entry, as […]

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