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Cinco de Mayo, Retirement, and Seeing Cubs – Thoughts from May 5 and 11, 2024
May 5, 2024 As I mentioned yesterday, today is Cinco de Mayo. Someone joked that no one knows what it’s about. I could use my research I did yesterday to inform him that everyone knows it’s about the victory of Mexico over France in 1862. My heart would grow three times larger if he thought…
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The Force, IKEA, and Target – Thoughts from May 4, 2024
The force isn’t a real thing, but May the Fourth is. Star Wars nerds unite on this day to celebrate what’s wrong with the movies and television shows they love. I collect Star Wars things, but I’m not obsessive about it. This is just a day that I point out on the Nerd Mouse calendar…
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Birth, Falling, and Our Stories – Thoughts from April 27, 2024
The biggest thing that happened today is the birth of our nephew and his wife’s baby boy. I’m really hoping I can reword that first sentence when I edit this Thoughts paper. Now that I’ve mentioned wanting to edit it, I’ll have to leave it as it is so you can see what I’m talking…
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Through the Door, Not Smoking, and Being a Research Robot – Thoughts from April 21 and 24, 2024
April 21, 2024 Walking through a closed door is a nerve-racking experience. You can usually guess what’s on the other side of it, but all bets are off if there’s a person on the other side. If you’ve had bad experiences with unwanted happenings behind closed doors, you might be anticipating a repeat of that…
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Visiting LAs Art District and My Past – Thoughts from April 20, 2024
Appropriately for today, I will point out the times recently when I have smelled marijuana around me. This, of course, is 420, man. I’ve never smoked … well, anything, but no one I know has ever even smoked marijuana around me. I only know what it smells like because it smells like skunk. This has…
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