Jared Ottley

As we were getting into the van to search for the fuse for the A/C, I asked Adrienne if she had meant to trim back the rose bushes as much as she had. She said she hadn’t trimmed any of them, just dead-headed a few. It seems someone came by and cut about [...]

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I got home yesterday from work, stepped into the house and realized that it was hotter inside than out. (And it was hot yesterday! The hottest day of the year so far, mid to lower 90s.) I thought at first that Molly had chewed all the way through the thermostat wires [...]

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On Saturday, we attempted to hike to the ‘Y’ with the boys. {Short history here.}

We made it just about three-quarters of the way up. Taylor had the energy and strength to make it. He was determined to go all the way.
We have to go to the Y and then we can go down.
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I have never seen Super Size Me (it is now in my Blockbuster queue), but I have to say that I am already a huge fan of Morgan Spurlok. I watched the premier of his new show on FX, 30 Days. I was blown away. It brought back up the reasons why [...]

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Updated….
It is no secret to the people that know me (or see me) that I dress like a slob. Sometimes. (I hate the idea of appropriate clothing for an occasion so much, that I have been known to dress up to lounge about the house, and dress down to go out.) At my last job, [...]

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Yesterday, we went with my Mother and Brother in-laws to the MTC. I didn’t get to see much of what happened in the orientation because Andrew and Cameron couldn’t sit still. So we went outside and sat on the grass until it was over. Andrew, being Andrew, had non stop questions about [...]

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Dad: Here is a link to a video of the author discussing his book at MIT. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/. Oh, and you forgot your hiking boots at the house.
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You’d swear, based on the reaction of some of the people in the office, that the world was coming to an end. That once again all the right-wingers were being proved ‘right’, that the judicial system was completely corrupt and that it was time to rid ourselves of such an awful system [meaning the [...]

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So I dropped off Molly (the dog) at the vets yesterday. Last round of shots for a year, and the inevitable spay. Adrienne went to the store later on to buy a bunch of stuff so Molly would be comfortable in the house. Adrienne said she started to cry when she thought [...]

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Glad to be back home. It was nice to see the in-laws, but better to be home. But it is not like I am going to get a chance to relax. I have at least a weeks work of work to catch up on. I missed the dogs spay appointment this [...]

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