What do you do?

Quiz: You are a federal institution crucial to personal and business matters of most every United States citizen. You observe a holiday that no one else does. The weekend before this holiday, your PO Box customers’ boxes are filled to the limits.
Do you:
a) Schedule at least one person to work, seeing as [...]

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Another week…

A few updates on an interesting week…

On a very positive note, they finally determined that my mom’s problems were related to a heart irregularity that’s currently being controlled very well by medicine.
Our soccer team won its first game! This has really been an enjoyable group of kids and getting a win was a nice [...]

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the lag…

The lag between updates… well, basically a lot of things going on:

Renee finished her last chemotherapy session and followed it up with having her port removed. A lot of happiness tied up in getting past what could be seen as the worst of our cancer adventure, but a good deal of pain and struggle [...]

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Pottery

We went to see Order of the Phoenix last night.  It wasn’t really entertaining as some of the previous ones have been.  Mind you, sets were great, effects were great, acting was decent for the kind of film it is.  It just didn’t have as much of the exuberance that some of the previous ones [...]

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At long last

I’m very, very proud.
This week I managed to finish a very long personal research project I’ve been involved in for several years now. This is just a huge check off my personal goals list.  I’m not really ready to share it yet, but I’m very satisfied with getting it done.
Hopefully now I can move forward [...]

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More than meets the eye…

So worth it.  Go see the show.  With pre-teen children if possible.

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More action figures

I updated my Action Figure gallery with some shots found on Renee’s old camera.  We found it today and it had a few pictures that never got moved over when she switched.

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Freedom Celebration

 
I have to say I was quite impressed with my little town’s 4th of July Freedom Celebration.  We had a fireworks show that was as nice as I’ve seen anywhere short of Disneyworld.  We had a great vantage point and a view that looked like it was spread out for us.  A fun time had [...]

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Out from under the storm

Glad to say that the bulk of Renee’s chemo sickness appears to be behind her.  She’s still not 100%, but feeling well enough to eat occasionally and go to work.  One down, three to go…

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doctor! doctor!

My apologies to those who thought this was a post about our current medical situation…
Back during my time at deviantart I made friends with a few guys going to a small school in Michigan - one of them was a really talented poet and I always kept a close eye on anything he published.  He [...]

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