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It’s becoming an annual tradition that every summer some cataclysmic event strikes my home and cost me a boat load of money. Two years ago, water started pooling at a spot in my front lawn. I c...

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I’m falling off the wagon big time. I previously wrote how I overindulged my spending habits last year. I bought two mountain bikes, some rifles, and a gun safe. I still saved a good bit of mo...

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I turned 41 on Tuesday. At one time I was dumb enough to think age is just a number. That belief has been thoroughly dispelled. I’ve spent the past 6 weeks or so getting over an arm injury. I...

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[Foreward: click the bolded words for pictures. For my life, I can’t get my Prosebox to display the pictures in the body of the entry] Christmas was sublime. That is to say, it was basically a ...

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I’m getting stronger! The right arm still hurts, though. I’ve revised my workout routines, not slowly, but still incrementally. I currently perform a Muay Thai shadow boxing workout twice a we...

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It’s been too long. Nothing significant has happened to me, but it feels like my insides are in a sort of turmoil. I think I’m having a mid-life crisis. Maybe to be more accurate, I’m having a...

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I have a somewhat positive update on my brother. He’s still alive and not in any immediate danger of harming himself. I may save that topic for my next entry because I desperately need to relie...

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I’m afraid I don’t have much if good news, if any at all. When I left off on Tuesday night, Lauren and I had a big win in that we convinced David to talk to the police and reconcile with Nate an...

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My brother tried to commit suicide last week after falling for a crypto-rom scam that fleeced him out of over $1.5 million. Obviously, this entry will be extensive, but I want to document the ev...

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I’m a fairly spend thrift person, partly because of my inherent personality and partly because of my experiences being unemployed. I stick to a sensible budget that includes treats like eating o...

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I went back to my childhood home and retrieved that road cycle I ordered. Since I didn’t get a response to my emails or phone calls, I just showed up unannounced around noon that Saturday. I ba...

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Funny how when you make decision that required much deliberation, life will sometimes pile on top of you. It’s almost like it was waiting for your choice before unleashing a whole bunch of unrel...

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I haven’t been back to jiu jitsu since my last entry. I took several weeks off thinking my shoulder would heal with some basic R&R. When that didn’t happen, I made an appointment with my lo...

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My mom so often used to make that statement when random things would go wrong. It never really registered with me how she must have been feeling, but lately, I find myself relating to that senti...

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I turned 39 on Sunday. It didn’t really register that it was my birthday. It usually doesn’t, but much less so this year. Even without the pandemic I don’t really have any friendships, no clos...

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At my previous company, I encountered a very annoying problem. Specifically, I had a coworker who thought he was my boss. I’ve just recently discovered that the inverse-photonegative of that si...

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Christmas came and went; nothing to report much on my end. I was going to have a socially distant/isolated Christmas, not so much for my own or the public health, but just because I’m perfectly ...

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I saw myself as an old man recently. I don’t mean like I had a vision or a dream or something abstract in either of those manners. I went to take a makeup dental appointment. It was supposed t...

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I just got back from an awful blind date. Well, I’m using hyperbole, but I do feel a little bit bamboozled. Permit me to explain. Last Sunday at church, an acquaintance from my class, Sydney, a...

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If I’ve been fortunate in any particular regard, it’s that I’ve never really had a bad boss. I’ve had bosses I weren’t crazy about, like the Winn-Dixie grocery store manager when I was a bagboy/...

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I had my knee surgery almost two weeks ago (two weeks ago exactly this Tuesday). I was nervous some reason. I have no idea why as I’ve had surgery before. It’s basically a time jump. You chec...

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Before I get into the meat of this entry, I got the promotion. My raise is either $2k or $5k a year, depending on how one looks at the situation. With the economy in its current condition, ever...

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One of the few bits of education I remember from my sociology class during my first year of college was something called the level of incompetence. The alleged phenomena can be described as foll...

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I wrote about my mid-life crisis last entry. I’ve sense leveled up with the following epiphany. I’m 38. My mom passed away when she was 58 and my dad when he was 68, both from cancer and/or ca...

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Apologies for the radio silence. I promise I’m not dead. In fact, I’ve never felt more alive. Aside from so many people passing away, even more being sick, and the supermarket shortages, I thi...

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