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06:33 pm: A Few of My Favorite Things

I love that the Google ad generator gives me links to Spam recipes when I'm clearing out my spam folder.

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02:26 pm: Cheesy
I wonder why it is that I have a whole book of Cheeze Whiz recipes? 

Make that 2 books?!

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07:23 am: A Thought
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."
Got this off The Wondering Jew

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08:44 pm: For a different reason than I thought, but stunning nonetheless.
 Yesterday as they have in so many years past, the midshipmen of Annapolis scaled the greased Herndon monument and replaced the plebe's cap perched there with an upperclassman's cap.  This year that cap was not the normal selection - it was the cap from a woman's uniform.  I saw this on the gym tv (no sound) and was stunned.  I checked the Post and they didn't even mention the cap.  Luckily the Baltimore Sun came through for me.  In the end it wasn't a statement on the sexes which is what I thought at first glance.  The cap actually belonged to a female mid found dead in her room May 5th from as yet unknown causes.  Knowing the tradition of the climb I find the use of her hat to be a stunning tribute from her classmates.

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08:08 pm: Looking up
 I wish it were figuratively, but I mean literally.  It's funny I know I used to look at the sky but the combination of my job near the airport and the influence of a friend have me looking skyward more than I used to.  To the planes, of course, but also to the clouds and such.  The payoff is the occasional sundog and the feeling awe at of how diverse the landscape of the sky really is.

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07:12 pm: The strange things in my head ...

It occurs to me to wonder - when they phase out incandescent light bulbs, how will one power an Easy Bake Oven?

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07:03 pm: That Crazy Relative
As I reflect on the weekend I think about a moment I had sitting on the couch at Hil's watching her girls tearing through the bag of stuff I had brought them.  It was my best villan prize pack which the boy was uninterested in when I brought it home.  I took it to give to the girls as I thought they might appreciate it.  As I watched them fight over the disk shooting gun, then fight over blowing up the inflateable hammer then beat each other with it while alternately sucking down the sugar from the giant pixie stick - It struck me that I was the equivalent of that horrible crazy relative who brings the kids completely inappropriate gifts.  ...Sorry Hil.  They did seem to like them, though.

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01:11 pm: Veterans Day

This Vet's day is the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Vets memorial downtown.  Maybe I'll go there tomorrow.  I was there at the dedication.  I couldn't actually see the memorial on that trip - Regan was speaking by the Wall so we all had to be well back.  I did however have the most amazing experience of riding the Metro an walking to the site with hundreds and hundreds of Vietnam Vets.  I didn't really speak with them, I'm not that bold now and my 21 year old self wasn't bolder.  I am, however, an accomplished voyuer.  I watch and listen and absorb.  They told each other stories and I was lucky enough to be part of the audience.

I was my boy's age during Vietnam it was pretty consuming.  My son has Iraq but I don't think he has the same sense from it.  The war was a part of my life but this war is not so much part of his.  We had the body count on the nightly news and he has Cartoon Network.  Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

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