Category: play
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Pleasant Valley Sunday
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the camping thing – progress 5/6/23
Every day I try to do at least one thing to make continual progress getting The Camping Thing ready for the season. Some days it doesn’t seem like much, but on a day like today when I can see what the end product is going to look like, the feeling of satisfaction is pretty great. Read.
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night out
There was a special at the Muskellounge and Sporting Club last night: Meat People was selling three kinds of burritos out of a food truck in the parking lot and My Darling B wanted to eat at least one of them, so off we went. She had the beef burrito, I had the chorizo, and Read.
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guppy
“How did Tim guess ‘guppy’ on the second try with just one letter?” B wondered aloud in the car on the way home from work today. “Well I guess I won’t be playing Wordle today,” I responded dryly. Read.
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progress – the camping thing – 043023
Ah yes, the now-familiar photo of a nondescript plywood box propped on sawhorses in a spectacularly filthy garage. How predictable am I? Today’s goal was to unship the battery box from its position in the back of the van where it was bolted down; give the outside front and back a quick but reasonably good Read.
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fwoosh
The hamburgers My Darling B bought for our first cookout of the season were the size of manhole covers and were at least eighty-five percent fat, which means that before I could finish slapping all eight of them on the grill they erupted into the biggest grease fire we’ve ever seen. I had to keep Read.
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camping thing progress 4/29/23
It’s all little steps these days. I had just two goals yesterday after work: put the bottoms in the two boxes I built last week, and cut a lid for the battery box. They weren’t big goals, so it’s no big surprise I managed to reach them both. That’s how I keep projects moving: break Read.
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progress 4/23/23
It looks like it’s just photos of boxes, one after the other, but honestly I’m making real progress now. Five out of five boxes built; two completed (although I might slap another coat of poly on them); two nearly completed (slapped a coat of poly on them today & will attach the lids on hinges Read.
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progress 4/19/23
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favorite restaurant
I was posted to Misawa Air Base as my last duty assignment in the Air Force. It was simultaneously the worst and the best assignment I had in my 21 years of service. On the very first day, for instance, I was on a charter flight with my wife and kids over the Arctic Circle Read.
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