Category: Personal
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Colorado Roadtrip, Days 1 and 2
Reporting tonight from the Comfort Inn in Westminster: Day 1: Set up jump No pictures, just a tired roadgeek setting up the second day. My little cousin Bethany had a birthday party Sunday afternoon, so I knew I was going to have a late start in. I decided upon Salina as my intermediate stop. From…
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What I did today
So far: * Got a new pair of size 42 Birkenstocks as a birthday present. Maybe I found the question of Life, the Universe, and everything. * Got pictures of 5 different trains. * Forced three of those trains to slow down at the Ohio Terrace crossing when I noticed that the crossing wasn’t working…
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What to say
* First off, the place that I have called home for the past 17 years is Up for sale. Most of my free time has been spent keeping the place clean in making improvements here and there. There was a Open House on Saturday, which meant we had to evacuate for the afternoon. Inquiries about…
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The old Cuckoo
My dad bought a cuckoo clock for his parents in 1970 while stationed in Japan. It hung at my grandparent’s home in Old West Lawrence until my grandma moved in ’87 (my Grandfather passed away in 1973 — I was eventually given his name). When my grandma passed away a month ago, the first thing…
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Obit…
Last sunday, my grandmother, Beverly Kennedy, passed away Sunday to pancreatic cancer The obit from the Journal-World can be found here
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Car work
Back in December, I bought a 2001 Chrysler Town and Country. Yesterday, I took it in to Gregg Tire for mainenance. $320 later, I had the transmission and power sterring flushed, and, of course, an Oil Change. The Power Steering was creaking whenever I turned the wheel, and the fluid levels may have been a…
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Ides of March
Beware the ides of march… So they say. March 15 is the birthday of Kristen Badali and Lindsay Phillps, two angels that I met during my time taking pictures of the KU dancers. Incidentally, I’ve learned via myspace that Kristen now resides in Chicago… which is where KU has been sent for the first and…
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Frightful
Yeah, we’re past the 12th day of Christmas, but the weather has definitely taken a turn for the worse… I just checked in to the Comfort Inn & Suites in Overland Park, near I-435 and Metcalf before I go to work at the Sprint campus. Like I’ve said before, I’m in a “critical ops” section,…
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New Pictures
Some shots of the kids (Cyrus and Carl) and of the high iron at Edgerton
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The Original 10…
My Website is in the homestretch of its 11th year online… and my classmates that were Seniors at LHS in my first year are heading for the 10-year reunion. The ’95-’96 Pom Squad members, in a sense, were the first of what I’ve come to term the “Road Crew” in keeping with the Highway theme.…