Year: 2020
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WITAT?: Gender Reveals
Since moving to the U.S., I’ve learned that there are many things that Americans unnecessarily over-celebrate. From football players trotting on to the pitch at the start of a game (which is apparently deserving of smoke bombs, fireworks, and inflatable tunnels, even though they do this a couple of times a week during the season – and get paid a fuck-ton of money to do so), to high school graduations (“Well congratulations for managing do what 85% of the population does…and sure, let’s have a 4-hour ceremony to celebrate it!”) – hell there are even kindergarten ‘graduations’. Draft picks…nominations for… Read more
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Spring Break Road Trip
Thanks to the impending global apocalypse, Daughter’s college is extending Spring Break (which starts Monday) by a week or two, and then moving to all-online classes “until further notice”. Which meant that instead of having a nice, relaxing weekend at home, I had to drive up to Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, and bring her and all of her stuff back home. Yes, it is in-State, but the State being Texas, it is 500+ miles away, which makes it a weekend trip. Usually, this would irritate the pants off me, especially as it was only decided on Thursday, and… Read more
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Ire in Cairo
A description of a vacation I took to Egypt in 1991/1992, by way of a letter of complaint. Read more