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2nd Time the Charm?

Okay, we made another attempt to do the “Day After the Last Day of School” trip to Crane’s Beach. The last time I went was in 2004, and it was 58 degrees at the beach. It was very unpleasant. Here is what I looked like back them:

Today it was 80-ish at the beach, but the water was 55 degrees, so it was REALLY FOGGY. To the point where we just had to laugh at how we couldn’t see anything. Got a shot to share with you:

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Goodness, How Many Days Has It Been?

I apologize for my scarcity. I’m making a career detour this month and have been up to my eyeballs finishing my the stuff I’m working on before my last day, the 30th. I will be with the same company, in a different role. I’m VERY excited about this change, even though I’m sad to be leaving behind some very cool coworkers. But you gotta do what you gotta do, right?

Today is Junior’s last day of 2nd grade. I tried to sort of hold him in a pose that would prevent him from growing any more, but it wasn’t working. Then I pulled out a tape measure and showed him what 21 inches looks like. “That is how you started. Can you see why I think you’re getting too big?” I think he was amused to see how little he was. Of course, at the time we thought Mr. 8 pounds 12 ounces and 21 inches was huge. How naive we were back then.

Time to take more video of the boy so that when he’s another foot taller I can just sit in a dark room and look back fondly on these days when he was “little.”

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Setting the Record Straight

I have to defend Fluff. Some moron at the State House has taken it upon himself to start a personal crusade against God’s favorite food, Marshmallow Fluff.

I buy it, and not for Junior. He doesn’t really eat peanut butter.

I buy it for me.

The part I need to set straight is the “sugar and chemicals” summary statements. Sugar, sure, but no chemicals. Here are the ingredients:
Corn syrup
Sugar
Dried egg white
Vanillin.

That’s it. No fat, no sodium. 15g of carbs, 9g of sugars.

So lets look at grape jelly. I have some Smuckers. Grape juice, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, pectin, citric acid and sodium citrate. That gives us no fat, 5mg of sodium, 13g of carbs, 12g of sugars.

So when will they be banning jelly? Side by side, Fluff is “better” for you.

stupid humans, have you nothing better to do? I have an idea – take the money you would spend trying to get this passed and add it back to the school lunch budgets. I can’t even feed my family a healthy meal on the pittance the cafeteria managers have to work with. That’s the REAL problem.

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“I Heart My Wife”

Okay, so I saw this bumper sticker on a truck this morning. I can’t fathom a guy voluntarily putting it on. Maybe the wife snuck out in the middle of the night and did it when he was sleeping. Or else it’s his punishment for some really horrible thing he did.

I don’t think I’d make Mr. Dump put one of those on his car. Not that he would. Maybe I should ask him.

[As a side note, it might have been a woman driving the truck. Which made me jump to the conclusion that it was a lesbian couple (and that would make perfect sense because it would be a political statement AND the type of thing a woman would be more likely to be willing to put on a car.) Of course, it could have been the guy’s wife borrowing his truck. So many questions.]

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"I Heart My Wife"

Okay, so I saw this bumper sticker on a truck this morning. I can’t fathom a guy voluntarily putting it on. Maybe the wife snuck out in the middle of the night and did it when he was sleeping. Or else it’s his punishment for some really horrible thing he did.

I don’t think I’d make Mr. Dump put one of those on his car. Not that he would. Maybe I should ask him.

[As a side note, it might have been a woman driving the truck. Which made me jump to the conclusion that it was a lesbian couple (and that would make perfect sense because it would be a political statement AND the type of thing a woman would be more likely to be willing to put on a car.) Of course, it could have been the guy’s wife borrowing his truck. So many questions.]

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