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The Taking-A-Break Post

3/25/2010 – 3:28 pm

Major League Soccer kicks off tonight! Check it out tonight at 8:30 CT on ESPN2. Last year’s expansion success story the Seattle Sounders take on this year’s new boys, the Philadelphia Union. Will it be any good? Only one way to find out. This morning I finished a draft of my questions for my prelim [...]

By Trent | Posted in * Footie, - US/MLS, Movies/TV, School | Comments (0)

Yet Another Format Change, Spurs’ True Colors, and Reflections on XBox 360 Games

1/23/2010 – 4:27 pm

Awhile back I changed the name of the site from “The Always Insightful Insights of Trent Hergenrader” (a name I never particularly liked) to “A Propensity for Unstable Realities, ” which is another name I didn’t particularly like. My goal at that time was to create a more professional-looking site and take it away from [...]

By Trent | Posted in * Footie, - England/EPL, Gaming, Reading, School, Teaching | Comments (2)

Blogging in Serious Decline

10/20/2009 – 10:28 pm

Well, blogging sure ranks pretty low on my “to do” list I guess. The schedule nowadays could best be described as “crushing” most weeks; I have to hunker down and work quite hard in order to free up enough time to play soccer on Saturdays. It’s a sorry state of affairs. What makes things worse [...]

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Off for the Weekend

9/4/2009 – 9:26 am

We’re heading to Chicago for the weekend to celebrate our friends Jenny and Steven’s nuptials. We’re bringing el bebe. Wish us luck. We’re excited to be going to Chicago. I can’t remember how long it has been since I’ve been there. The AWP Conference back in February, maybe? As always, the hardest part is trying [...]

By Trent | Posted in School, Teaching, Travel | Comments (0)

The New Year Begins (Almost)

8/24/2009 – 10:19 pm

Still incredibly pissed about World Soccer Daily pulling the plug as I had my first commute to Milwaukee and back today for preseason training, followed by another session tomorrow. The show was so damn good, it made me laugh out loud so often, I’m wondering how I can fill the hole. And I’ve only been [...]

By Trent | Posted in * Footie, - England/EPL, School, Teaching | Comments (1)

Interesting Days

8/20/2009 – 12:09 pm

Well well well, it’s amazing what a couple days of games can do for you. BTW, before I launch into my knee-jerk reactions to the events I’ve witnessed, can I just say how utterly awesome it is to be a soccer fan in this country? Thanks to FSC and their network of channels, you could [...]

By Trent | Posted in * Footie, - England/EPL, Music | Comments (1)

Website Changes A-Comin’…

8/12/2009 – 4:09 pm

I’m celebrating an anniversary of sorts. I installed WordPress and started blogging way back on August 2nd, 2004 (see archive to the right). I learned to add content pretty frequently for a site that had previously housed pictures of our trips and vacations and a few snippets of nonfiction work I had published at the [...]

By Trent | Posted in * Footie, - US/MLS, General | Comments (1)

The Silly Season is Upon Us

7/31/2009 – 5:56 pm

/ / / I’ve been watching a smattering of footie from the Gold Cup (yawn) to the World Football Challenge (surprisingly good) and the Peace Cup (a bit of both) as well as following all the transfer shenanigans. Observations in no particular order: * Real Madrid still look pretty disjointed overall and the back line [...]

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Plugging Away at Reading

7/26/2009 – 1:55 pm

I’ve been knocking down a few of the shorter titles on my prelim including The Sand Child (which I wasn’t a huge fan of) and The Invention of Morel (which I was). The Sand Child exhibits all of the necessary traits for a postmodern, magical realist work in that it has multiple and conflicting layers [...]

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Dirty Dealings with Dish Network? and Differences with Directv

7/8/2009 – 6:39 pm

As mentioned previously, our Dish Network DVR crapped out back in May and we decided to switch to Directv, largely because Dish Network had also dropped GolTV and because Directv had a good promotion going. I had already called to get a new receiver but Canceling was easy enough. Or was it? The phone rep [...]

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