Milwaukee, WI
An old photo of the Milwaukee Art Museum. It was taken on July 4 when we went to Summerfest. Some day I want to go inside.

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For the last couple years my niece, Stephanie, has been really active in Taekwondo. I remember last year at Christmas time she took Dallas and I into her room and showed us her belts and explained how you advanced and what you had to do. She also had 2 boards that she broke with her [...]

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When you’re laying around all lazy on a Sunday watching the Packers get killed and you get an email from your host saying that they renamed your mt-comments.cgi file because you’re getting too much spam and using up too many resources, it probably isn’t a good time to say “oh, to hell with it! I’m [...]

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It’s been cold and gray and windy here for the past week so I thought it was a good time to make some more french onion soup. This time it was a lot easier because I have a quality knife and some handy knife skills.

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Columbia College, The Loop, Chicago
Last night Scott and I were invited to speak at Columbia College. We were joined by Jessa Crispin of Bookslut fame. It was nice to finally meet her. The instructor was Rob Elder, who also writes for the Chicago Tribune, and the class was on reporting and writing. There were only [...]

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