Monthly Archives: December 2005

Four Dings Meme

12/30/2005 – 11:36 am

FOUR JOBS YOU’VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE: 1. Tuxedo Specialist, DuBois Formalwear 2. Boathouse manager, UW Memorial Union 3. Professional Programs Coordinator, US Soccer 4. IT Manager, Washington State Youth Soccer FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER: 1. Blade Runner 2. Conan the Barbarian 3. Star Wars 4. Fellowship of the Ring FOUR [...]

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Half-Full or Half-Empty?

12/29/2005 – 11:00 am

English Premier League Table, Half Way Through Rank Team Pld. W D L GF GA GD Pts. 1 Chelsea 19 17 1 1 41 9 +32 52 2 Manchester United 19 12 5 2 36 16 +20 41 3 Liverpool 17 11 4 2 25 9 +16 37 4 Tottenham 19 9 7 3 27 [...]

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The Year to Come

12/27/2005 – 11:59 am

During the holiday season a lot of people spend time reflecting on the year that was but I’m focused on the year to come. I feel like I’ve gotten a number of things squared away in my head and I can move forward with nothing but writing in future months. 2003 was the year I [...]

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The Darkest Day of the Year

12/22/2005 – 9:07 am

John Graham Mellor Born: August 21, 1952 Died: December 22, 2002 Better known as Joe Strummer I’ve got two choices here: either I can write a long, rambling, near-incoherent essay on what Joe Strummer means to me, complemented by link after link to brilliant lyrics; or I can keep it really, really short. I’m going [...]

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What’s In the Hopper

12/21/2005 – 11:42 am

Minutes ago, I just shipped my fourth story of the week — goal met! That makes it eight floating around right now and there are at least two more that are within a week of being done. Best of all, of these eight stories most of them have either zero or only one rejection which [...]

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Steve’s Sins

12/20/2005 – 5:11 pm

Still listening to “Wolves of the Calla” by Stephen King. My patience is growing thin but I think I’m through the longest digression from the main plot. Here’s a snippet of a 3-star review by Eileen Rieback (a Top 500 reviewer!) off Amazon: Where the story line falls short, and earns the book only 3 [...]

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The Cold Hard Truth

12/19/2005 – 2:13 pm

Jim MacDonald talks hypothermia over at Making Light. Discussions of this sort make me realize how little the average Joe knows about survival. As I started reading I thought, “C’mon, this is common sense.” But then I started thinking about it and realized it isn’t. In fact, I only know what I do about keeping [...]

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Man’s Best Friend

12/18/2005 – 11:46 pm

Athena and I went for a longish snowshoe trip this afternoon. It was sunny and crisp (about 12 degrees) but we didn’t get cold even once. Here are some shots of our day. Here we are trying to take a timed photo with the digital camera balanced precariously in a tree and a dog who [...]

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Dare To Dream (with Artistic License)

12/16/2005 – 6:56 pm

The other night I watched a documentary on the US Women’s National Team called Dare to Dream and thought it was pretty good. A bit distorted somewhat in my humble opinion, but pretty good nonetheless. I worked for the United States Soccer Federation from 1997 to 1999 which pretty much marks the three years the [...]

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Fifteen Statements on Books

12/15/2005 – 5:18 pm

There’s this thing circulating in the blogosphere where you say 15 things about books. Clarion homies John Schoffstall and Dr. Phil have already compiled theirs, and Phil challenged the rest of us to do the same. Since I’m a lemming, here’s mine. Classics Tend to be Classics for a Reason – Not enough people read, [...]

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