SuburbanAdventure

New Year’s Eve was spent at the Rimmer household where Joe, Kendra, Pat and myself spent most of our time avoiding Clara’s sister and her friends. One fellow was nice and looked suspiciously like David Krumholtz from Addams Family Values and was continually assaulted by his daughter that thought there was no such thing [...]

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A smear of photos from the staff reunion mostly focusing on volleyball.  Flickr set
Kevin Ott, a long time member of Ockanickon’s Varsity Sleep Team wasn’t awake by noon thirty so we went to roust him.  The process was both simple and inefficient, a proper Ockanickon solution.  Six people surrounded him, lifted his bed, shook fiercely [...]

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A gift I wanted to get the family for Christmas was the PedPod.  It featured the requisite ridiculous commercial to show its efficacy over normal foot shaping devices and after overcoming my apprehension at purchasing something that looks like one plants to get a child rapist promptly realized how dumb it was and got my [...]

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After FNM, Gregg Wilson and I wanted to accost Marcus Schneider who works at Five Guys for somehow being a manager there. I went in under the guise of purchasing food, a guise I take on very well and upon seeing him not there I ordered a large french fry and a bacon cheeseburger.
Guy: [...]

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I didn’t sleep much yesterday evening and was kinda giggly at Friday Night Magic (FNM). I brought a router to add to the store so I could dick around online during events in between rules questions and while waiting to install it practiced my impression of a router undercover as a horseshoe crab.  Trevor [...]

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I’ve been trying to get together with Dave Post, a high school chum, for some time as he’s only in town rarely when he invited me to a gathering being held by a mutual friend.  The host’s boyfriend had his Wii and was playing DDR with a degree of interest to which he probably didn’t [...]

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One of my co-workers was doing a test involving literally hundreds of paper towels.  She’d throw them out and quickly fill the small garbage bins of which we have about 8 along avoiding the 55 gallon drum on wheels as well.  She continued to fill these small bins until all 8 were full and she [...]

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Me: Hello, my name’s Terry Robinson and I recently ordered a glowing umbrella, order number X. I didn’t receive it with the order and the shipping receipt only lists 1 box.
ThinkGeek Guy: It wasn’t in the box? We check each package before shipping.
Me: No. I’m certain [...]

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Each holiday has a set of basic and immutable elements to it, such as Christmas being the time where everyone, regardless of faith, celebrates the birthday of Santa Claus. For the past few years, the Robinson family got together and watched the holiday classic, the Shawshank Redemption. This picture outlines the fixture of [...]

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For any of you who don’t know, my mother moved out in April 2003 after I turned 18 and has lived separately since.  To put the point on the cliche, I got a dog and hi-def TV for my mother, good trade.  Anyway, open dislike has given way to more subtle forms [...]

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