SuburbanAdventure

Overheard at the Baltimore Aquarium:
“Daddy, what’s a Puffin?”
“It’s a cross between a duck and a toucan.”

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I received a packet to fill out for re-employment at BMS and my father asked about the drug test portion.  I told him that I took the packet to a local testing center and they sent the results to BMS to which he responsed. “You can just go when you want, and to any location? [...]

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Undaunted by yesterday’s utter failure I began planning a more efficient route on my time attack of Half-Life: Blueshift.  At one point after clearing out all bad guys I left to use the bathroom only to return 20 minutes later with my dead corpse being raped by a headcrab that over the course of the [...]

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I have set myself a goal of producing a speed run of Half-Life: Blue Shift.  If you’re not familiar, a speed run is where one tries to complete a game as quickly as possible, also called a time attack.  I set down at noon to begin with the initial goal of completing it by 2. [...]

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I signed up for Amazon Prime for free 2 Day shipping thinking it’d be faster and indeed it is.  But it’s so fast, when you buy it, Amazon ships like 8 seconds after you click buy.  Normally I buy and then use the cancel feature, that option is now gone.  My unseasoned cast iron skillet [...]

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Dad’s jean collection for the most part consists of things that lie somewhere between “rugged” and “vapor” so for Christmas I decided to get him some jeans.  To not give away the secret I looked through the laundry to find the smallest pair knowing it’d be my father’s.  I found a beat up pair of [...]

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My brother has recently taken a fancy to scented candles.  Today I noticed the one burning was Apple Pie and noticed the below the title the label said “Pie de manzana” which I assume is Spanish.  Literally translated, this comes out to “apple foot”, a condition I’d rather not smell in candle form.

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I’m trying to make shirts for a Christmas gift for my fathering involving Iron On decals.  In a flash of insight I decided a flat constant heat panini maker might work.  So, I ventured to Macy’s which had a panini maker on sale and began looking for a sandwich maker with a flat surface.  As I [...]

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My IH0051 instructor gave us a take home final that we had to email him.  I doubt he will read the whole thing so I’ve included the following in the section Compare the historical and theological Jesus. “Finally, Jesus is often portrayed as peaceful and while Yeshua of Nazereth was the father of modern ninjutsu [...]

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Every day I take the train I return on the 4:00 PM R3 and there is a morbidly obese women that sits at the train station and reads trashy romance novels.  Today, I returned from taking a final and in her place I saw two women with the same color hair sitting in the spot [...]

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