Archive for July, 2006

The Library Is For Stupid People

This week Rich and I were working at the Garrett Public Library. On the west side of the library is a side entrance door and three adjoining windows that are in pretty bad shape; we spent the week stripping the old varnish off of the wood, steel wool-ing them smooth, sanding them, applying a coat [...]

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Pitcher Perfect

The older people get, the more they tend to forget things and generally go insane. The trouble is most of them don’t realize it; they usually think everyone else around them is to blame. If we were aware of that exact moment when we start to lose it then maybe it would help make the [...]

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“The Office” Promo

If you watch NBC’s The Office or ever swing by my YouTube site, you may have seen the promos for a new contest. Basically, they are asking people to make a promo for The Office, exactly 20 seconds long, and submit it to them. They’ll pick 3 grand prize winners to air on NBC after [...]

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Why Factories Give Me A Headache

Ever try to wrap your mind around something that can’t be completely understood? You know, like trying to fathom how huge the universe is. You sit there and think about it and pretty soon you have to stop or else you freak out and find you have converted to Scientology.
I have the same problem with [...]

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A Quote From Jeff

I’ve never been the kind of person who was into quotes. Not that I don’t like them, I just never remembered them, and reading a book of quotes was always like an amalgum of random thoughts that was hard for me to follow. When I think of quotes, I honestly think of one of those [...]

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Wow, Auburn, That Was Fast

One of the things you have to do when you rent a new apartment is go through the hassle of having the utilities transferred over into your name. (You can’t do it over the phone, you have to do it in person, and when they don’t have weekend hours or hours past 5pm, it then [...]

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The Devil Does Indeed Wear Ed-a

I’ve had some people ask me if I can be spotted in either of the two movies that are currently out that I worked on, The Break Up and The Devil Wears Prada, and the answer is yes and no.
I have been lazy and haven’t gone out to the theaters yet to check them out [...]

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Buzz! Smack! And when it’s funny

Sometimes things happen that are, for lack of a better word, tragic. But for some reason the media will at times present them to me in a way that comes off as humorous.
Case in point:
I was reading the local newspaper yesterday and there was a story about some maniac running around in the New York [...]

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Honk!!

Yesterday Dad, Rich, and I were returning from lunch in downtown Garrett and heading back to the worksite. We approached a corner and there were a couple of little girls there on the corner with signs, yelling at the passing cars. I assumed they were advertising a lemonade stand or yard sale or perhaps even [...]

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Old Friends

Today I called JT. Hadn’t talked to him in a long time (too long). It was really good to talk with him again and catch up. He’s a good man, strong work ethic, and I admire him a lot (plus, he’s freakin’ hilarious). You know those people that you know and miss and love but [...]

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