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Because People Seem to Care

I keep getting asked how World of Warcraft is treating me. Turns out people actually read my blog or check it out through Facebook–who knew? 🙂 And since the question keeps popping up, I thought I’d let you all breathe a little easier by telling you all at once. Azeroth is fine. I have yet to play more than an hour at a stretch, and I find it very relaxing. There’s something to be said for the stress relief one gets when one is vicariously slaughtering Murlocs. I don’t like fish. Murlocs are pretty much walking fish. It’s a win/win […]

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TRC at Work

Brought my son in with me to work today, just for a half day (we’re taking off early to go see Up, believe it or not. Me? Seeing a movie opening day again? Very nice.) It’s fun to have him here with me. So far he’s stamped, de-barcoded and de-callnumberified some discards, made a picture for a coworker, helped me fix a computer, and read a lot of books. Right now he’s playing with my Optimus Prime Transformer that I keep here for just such occasions. A few hours after we’d been here, he said, “You know, Dad, when I

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Graduation and Separation

TRC graduated from preschool today. He was very excited (they performed a play–he was a frog. Again.), but he was also really sad. Sad because it had come to an end and “he’d never get to go to preschool again.” I tried to comfort him: reassure him that he’d still see his friends, and that Kindergarten would be fun, too. At the same time, though, I couldn’t help but think that this is something he has to learn to deal with. I’ve never been a good one for good byes. I like to keep them short, because they make me

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Blaming Others for Faults in your Musical Taste

Sometimes it happens. Children too young to be able to escape the mistakes of others. Impressionable minds, ruined by the taint of others’ choices. It’s not a crime yet, but maybe one day . . . it will be. I’m talking, of course, about inflicting your musical taste on your children. I’m sure I’m already doing it to TRC, and no doubt DC is being affected as well. And years from now, TRC and DC will look sheepishly at their friends as a song comes on the radio, and they happen to know all the lyrics to it. Maybe this

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Dilemmas

So the fair’s in town, and we’re going tonight. Only problem is the rides cost $4 a spin, which (if you ask me) is vastly overpriced for a carnival ride. I know TRC’s going to want to go on them, and I don’t want to be an ogre or anything, but . . . that’s a chunk of change. No doubt by the time I read your responses, I will have already made up my mind, but my question for you is: what would you do? Set a budget out for your four year old about how much money he

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