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Apr 9 2012

by Rob
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Time’s Subjects

“What happens to us in the future? Do we become assholes or something?”
- Marty McFly, “Back To The Future” (1985)

You know, looking back from nearly the age of flying DeLoreans, rejuvenation clinics, hoverboards and abolished lawyers, the distant past of the mid-1980s in some ways seems a touch more real than the society of confused ambiguities that we all inhabit in 2012. Some of that is age, I’m sure. At 40, you appreciate the spins and twists and muddled middles of life considerably more than you do at 15, or even 30. You learn to fight them less. You start learning to let go. At some point you realize that what you cling to the most are often little more than convenient fictions.

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Apr 1 2012

by Rob

A Word To New Money

So let’s see. There’s actually a non-astronomical chance that I’m related to someone who just won $200 million in the lottery. No, seriously. One of the three winners of the $640 million Mega Millions lottery bought their ticket at a convenience store in the tiny town of Red Bud, Illinois, population 3700. And most of my father’s rather large family happens to live in Red Bud, going back generations.

Really.
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Mar 2 2012

by Kristi

This Old Haunted House

Our house is quirky, in that funky, built in 1940 kind of way.  We have original tile in the bathroom and kitchen, doors that aren’t a standard jamb width, hardwood floors, sawdust insulation, original light fixtures, coved ceilings.  You get the idea.

At 3am a few weeks ago, I woke up after a fitful bit of sleep.  I turned over, readjusted Monkey from being planted on my shins, and tried to go back to sleep.  Rob was sleeping peacefully.  I was trying to go back to sleep, not succeeding.

And then I heard water.  Running water.  Inside the house.

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Jan 19 2012

by Rob

Mashup

So not long ago, we’re sitting in the office and I’m banging out a deadline – a case study about a tech outsourcer, I think – and Kristi’s cranking music off Pandora. A song comes on that catches my ear, and I ask her what it is. Eddie Vedder, “Society”. From the soundtrack to the 2007 movie “Into The Wild”.

I guess I’ve been living in a cave, because I’d never heard of the film. So I dug it up and watched it. It conjured up some stuff in me that a week later I’m still processing.
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