InnerTeub

I just read what is possibly my favorite movie review ever written: “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save [...]

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This past weekend was my tenth high school reunion, and I kind of went back and forth on whether or not it was good enough excuse to go home for a few days, but finally concluded that, yes, it was worth the trip. (This was partially due to Minnesota’s tax free shopping, the change in [...]

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A former classmate of mine, Jolawn of SpelHouseLove.com, recently blogged about the developing her “100 Life Goals,” a concept taken from the pastors at The Courageous Church. She writes about it in detail here, but the basic gist is: These 100 goals are stretch goals. Some are short term, and several are long term and [...]

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No, I mean that literally: We finally took our honeymoon, and it is now over. As a wedding present, the Boss and I were gifted the free use of his parent’s time share… IN GRAND CAYMAN. Wow, our lives are SO rough. It was such an amazing gift, and we had a great time. I [...]

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Conversation I just had with my boss: Me: “Just for fun, I’d like to write a paper on Acquisition Reform in the Dept of Defense over the past 30 years, and discuss how every initiative has failed, and then challenge the government to tell me why the latest initiatives will work, and, if I have [...]

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“No, not again. I… why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window.” – Office Space I went through a few years in my early twenties when I could not watch the movie Office [...]

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Two weekends ago, I left the house early in the morning and worked my way through the moist sponge that is the DC summer to meet up with good friends and slog ourselves through the heat on a training run. At one point my friend Laura complained that the outside smelled of dirty laundry, which [...]

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