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The Green Letters

One of my coworkers, Mark Simoneau, was in a band called the Green Letters for a few years, but they broke up a year and a half ago. Liz and I also know the lead singer (Tom Bubb) and his family. Tom’s sister Sarah was Liz’ room mate for a few years. And over the [...]

Washington Wedding

We returned from Seattle late last night, and man what a trip. I loved everything about it. The weather was perfect. It did rain, but nothing serious, and the sky opened for warm sunny days on both Saturday and Sunday. The terrain is incredibly beautiful. The people are friendly. The whole weekend was amazing. And [...]

Bainbridge

We’re in Washington this weekend to celebrate marriage with our friends Joe & Blythe. We flew into Seattle on Thursday morning, and we are having a great time. When we arrived we went straight to the Pike Place Market. We got lunch at a deli that overlooks the bay, then walked through the market to [...]

Ironmen

I’m now back from Tempe. I had a blast this weekend at Ironman Arizona, and it was inspiring, too. In addition to the challenge of swimming 2.4 miles, riding 112 miles and running 26.2 miles, the athletes endured wind and heat as well. When the race started at 7am it was beautiful. Sunny and calm. [...]

Triathlete

I’m in Tempe this weekend to cheer for my girlfriend and our good friend Joe (now fully recovered from last year’s accident) as they compete in Ironman Arizona. The event is on Sunday, but we all arrived early to find everything without being rushed.
I’ve never been to Phoenix or Tempe before but it seems pretty [...]

Security

A friend of mine was recently traveling, and was in the airport about to return home. As he was approaching the security check line he realized that he had his nail clippers with a small pen knife with him in his carry-on bag. Not wanting to exit the line to throw them away, he decided [...]

Mac Henry

Today my friends Scott & Karen had a baby boy. Mac Henry Friesen was born at 3am. Mom & baby are doing great. So fun to celebrate life with Scott & Karen.

Joe Is Alive

My friend Joe was in an accident on Saturday, he was hit by an 18-wheeler. I do not mean that he had a car accident. I mean Joe was riding his bicycle in the shoulder of a highway and a semi went into the shoulder and hit Joe. I’m not kidding.
Here’s the amazing part. Joe [...]

BANG!

I’ve always liked guns. I think I got my first BB gun when I was 8 or 9, and I had a pellet gun soon after that. When I was in junior high my friends and I would go hiking with a .22 long rifle and shoot holes in stumps, cans, whatever. When my brother [...]

The Knack

While I’m posting YouTube videos, I’ll post another. Tonight I was working on homework with a couple of other students. We took a break for a minute and showed each other some videos. Dilbert doesn’t always do it for me, but this one cracked me up.

Okay, back to work. I still have two chapters to [...]