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One of the highlights of our trip came at the Best Western we stayed at in Alvin. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the Texas-shaped waffle: It wasn’t our last encounter with the Texas-shaped waffle. They had them at the Airport Inn we stayed in near the airport the night before we flew (most of […]

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Man. That was some trip. And to top it all off, the drive from Madison to I.C. this morning was positively slippery. I very nearly kissed the garage floor when I got out of the car upon our arrival.

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If I never take another plane trip again, it’ll be too soon. Today we’re stuck in Madison at Rachel and Kevin’s house, waiting out a major snow storm that’s spread from Madison to Iowa City. It’s supposed to mitigate here sometime this afternoon, but we’re not sure how things will be on the road once […]

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Well, I “found” my birthday present this afternoon, after some nudging and coaching from Mark, and boy, was it lovely. 🙂 My friend CM is going to have to tell her husband to get on the ball; she’ll be “green” with envy after seeing the delicious, delightful green purse that Mark got me from Banana […]

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With everything else going on, and most of it negative and/or very sad, it seems like a good opportunity to mention that February is the month in which Leah was born, many, many years ago. To look at her, you’d never guess how many years she has under her belt (unless you got a look […]

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When your naked daughter jumps up on your made bed and takes a leak all over your down comforter, grinning devilishly at you all the while. Really, there’s nowhere to go but up after a start like that. Also, Leah’s paternal grandmother passed away in Houston last night. We’ll be driving to Madison in the […]

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Microsoft said it had offered to acquire Yahoo in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion. Ugh. PLEASE don’t let this go through. (Yahoo! owns Flickr, in case ya didn’t know.)

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