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Archive for November, 2009

Hey folks, it’s Christmas list time. I always feel so greedy when we do this but honestly, the list is what makes us so easy to shop for. Mike has’t posted a whole lot of what he wants yet. But don’t worry, he will. And I’ll add a bit more to mine. I’m honestly finding [...]

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A blog post isn’t nearly enough to thank the few hundred thousand who volunteer to on behalf of more than 300 million, no matter what is asked of them. But I’m doing it anyway. THANK YOU to all who serve and have served, at home and abroad.
Check out this amazing photo essay I saw recently. [...]

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Almost every baseball fan I know thinks the MLB playoffs drag on for far too long. We always refer to the baseball postseason simply as “October” because for 100 years the regular season ended as the calendar flipped to the 10th month of the year. These days what we call “October” actually goes into “November” [...]

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Mo, with braces

I have braces. At 30. I am terribly self-conscious but I know in the long run (that’s 18 months to two years for you folks keeping track) it will be a good thing. I’ll have straight teeth that won’t break when I’m older and a clean bite, not this open-bite craziness.
One of the weird things [...]

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Judgement Day

UPDATE: The sales tax passed by a 55-45 margin. Wow. I’ll write more later; for now I am simply relieved.
It’s Election Day in Springfield and the City has a 3/4-cent sales tax referendum on the ballot. Some of you may have heard me talk about this at some point over the last year or so. [...]

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Marathon Day

Congrats to our friend Travis Mowers, who ran his first marathon today in Springfield – the Bass Pro Marathon. We’re not sure of the official time but it was somewhere in the neighborhood of four hours. We cheered for him at three or four places along the route.

The New York Marathon was also today. The [...]

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