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From the Meadery
So I tortured myself over the bottle labels for my Morat, Raspberry Melomel and Pear-Autumn Olive Melomel. But I was making the perfect the enemy of the good, I realized, and I also realized that if I...
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Plaza Lights
I think I need to go back late at night. Between people walking into my shots and car traffic, it was a challenging thing to get good photos of the Plaza lights this evening. A person even asked me,...
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So I take Mo to the bar sometimes to watch sportsball, especially the Chiefs. Generally, she seems to like it. Even when the crowd is noisy, sometimes especially so. I've caught her giving high-fives...
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According to the file name, the brochure art that was forwarded to me was on its seventeenth revision. The client had either fired the designer or the designer had quit, I couldn't tell, but he was...
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Sub Zero
Set a personal record today. A record I'd just set yesterday. Prior to that, in February of 2011 I rode to work when it was 2ºF, that was a record that stood for almost seven years. So New Year's Eve,...
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Are You Mocking Me?
Long tradition: I don't think Mo has ever not struck this pose when passing the wax guard at the Nelson.
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Infinity and Infinite Aggrandizement
When I was coming out of Through the Eyes of Picasso, I wasn't really spending much time on the work that fills the Bloch addition as we made our way up to the Dreams of Kings. But this caught my eye,...
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Through the Eyes of a Copycat?
Just to get it out up front, I am a Picasso fan, and nothing about this makes me less so. Like Miles Davis and Salvador Dali, he managed to reinvent himself over and over, and understood how to be a...
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I've tried my best this past year to avoid blogging political posts. I mean, why bother? If you voted for the Cheeto Benito, I'm not going to change your mind. And if you thought I was sexist for not...
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Big Grin IV
It's been four years since my friend Joel, aka The Big Grin, died of that all too common, you'd never expect it but probably should, accident in the home. I believe he was trying to fetch something...
View ArticleChiefs!
Okay, I get that Alex Smith is too expensive for the Chiefs to keep. And I'm psyched about Patrick Mahomes starting next year, I think he's the most promising thing I've seen in a Chiefs uniform since...
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Mo's 21st
My youngest daughter just turned 21. I thought getting to be an old man would take longer, but alas. So a party was held. But this kid isn't a Power Hour kind of 21 year old. Low key, at her Mom's...
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KCBM 35
So last summer I got diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. The doc I see at the apheresis clinic had drawn some labs and just casually asked, 'Who do you see for your diabetes?'And I was like what...
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Mafia How To
My friend Julie once complained about my blog posts using pictures that didn't really go with the text. Pictures I took, stories about shit I'd gotten up to, but they weren't related. Sorry Julie,...
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Snake Saturday Competition
The Indiana Brewer's Cup was easily the biggest homebrew competition I've ever judged at. This was the smallest. Grain to Glass put it on for a festival there in Northtown on Snake Saturday, the...
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Party Time
We had a great party. It was billed as Corinna's birthday party, but by coincidence the date ended up being St. Patrick's Day. I think that probably helped bring people out, it's a day they were...
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Spinach
Corinna has been a lot more the gardner than I the past few years. I kind of lost interest after 2014, and our gardening styles are so different collaborating is difficult. My rigid notions of how...
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Ducklings
So we debated a long time, chickens, ducks, geese. Chickens are what everyone is keeping these days and that's fine. Ducks lay bigger eggs, you can keep a breeding flock easier in the city since drakes...
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Our Own Little Duck Dynasty
So the ducklings started out in the house, stinking up the joint, growing almost visibly every day. I feared Corinna had been premature when she moved them to the coop. But with the heat lamp out...
View ArticleLucky 13
I went to a casino. To gamble. For the first time in my life. But first.... I had fistula surgery last week to facilitate ongoing apheresis treatments. Basically after almost four years of fortnightly...
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So I had fistula surgery a little over two weeks ago. To facilitate my ongoing apheresis therapy. This is a pretty common thing for people who take dialysis, which apheresis resembles. They're...
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Mighty Ducks
Habits, man. I was in the habit of riding my bike to and from work, at least part of the way (I'd do the bike on bus thing pretty regularly to save time, avoid unpleasant weather, or to be lazy). Then...
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Survival (in Quotes)
They had some motorcycles on raffle at the theater when I took Mo to the latest Jurassic movie (I think this is the sixth installment, it's basically the same movie as the original Jurassic Park, but I...
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Bike Smut / Return to Mass
After my AV fistula surgery right around a year ago, I had so many neuropathy issues with my left arm it just wasn't any fun to ride the bike. By the time the issues resolved, I was out of the habit of...
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