March 2018 archive

Day 19,908

OK, I need to take a few minutes and crank this missive out before I head out. Dane was sick, Lisa is now sick, looks like Gracie is sick, and it’s simply a matter of time before whatever bug is going around sneaks up and punches me in the gut as well, leaving me spewing …

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Day 19,907

It’s Tuesday afternoon, and I’m getting ready to wrap things up for another day of teaching my Azure infrastructure class. There are definitely times that I feel that some aspects of this technology is kind of hanging out there at the very border of my ability, but then again, I find a way to recover …

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Day 19,906

It’s a Monday night, kids, and grampa is sitting, writing, and watching a public television documentary on Jackie Robinson. For the casual reader, it should be readily apparent that I’m an old white guy. I have lived my entire life with a degree of privilege. I know it’s real. A number of my peers think …

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Day 19,905

Hey gang, old Grampa Bob here, throwing down a few sentences before I call it a night on a Sunday in March. It’s been interesting. Watched some more basketball, as I am a huge college basketball fan. Not so much NBA, for some reason, but who knows, I might develop a taste for it after …

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Day 19,904

So, cutting to the chase tonight here in Larryville… Dane is currently on a bus, about to endure a straight-through express bus with limited stops surrounded by a bunch of sick classmates with half-full barf bags. Kansas defeated Seton Hall to make it to the Sweet 16 in Omaha. We’ll have to wait and see …

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Day 19,903

It’s Friday night, March the 16th. I’ve got some corned beef and cabbage ready for the pressure cooker tomorrow, and we’re hoping Kansas finds themselves heading to the Sweet 16. It’s been a crazy day. My alma mater, Wichita State, was a 4 seed in the regional, and they found themselves on the wrong side …

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Day 19,902

It’s Thursday night in the country, and Lisa and I are sitting in the living room watching some college basketball. Have been since the middle of the afternoon, and if you ask us if either has taken a nap since the beginning of this little slice of life, we might cover for each other. She’s …

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Day 19,901

Last night I wrote my blog very late at night, and prior to the writing of my entry, there may have been some adult distilled beverages involved. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. I’m not going to go back and change a thing. I thought about it, but I wrote it, it’s a …

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Day 19,900

OK, I’m here in a hotel room in Salina, Kansas, and all in all, I’ve had a pretty good day. Mom had a good day. I would say she seemed more like a person inconvenienced by dialysis than in need of the procedure. After they got that going (and much love and gratitude to my …

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Day 19,899

OK. The next 48 hours are going to be a bit on the interesting side. I’ll get up at four o’clock in the morning tomorrow to take Dane in for his band trip. He has to be there by four thirty in the morning, and the bus will leave without him if he is not …

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