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I just ate massive quantities of homemade potato dosa plus several other things I cannot name at the home of the family of the little girl Isabel tutors, and now I am in the pleasant conflicted place where the pleasure of good food competes with the why-did-I-eat-so-much. I kind of love that place, truth be told.

Time to go to my 7th Khalsa All Parents Night, then next week my 7th Khalsa new school year Chaperone meeting. I should prepare my questions ahead of time. Just kidding, I never have any questions.

Spectacular Now with my sweetie pie.

Someone named “Hortense Polkinghorn” just “favorited” one of my tweets and all I can think is I hope beyond hope that that is a real name.

A typical conversation with my borderline brain-dead cat lately:

Cat: {feed me}

Me: It isn’t time to eat.

Cat: {feed me}

Me: Cat, it is not even close to time to feed you yet.

Cat: {feed me}

Me: …

Cat: {feed me} {feed me} {feed me}

Me: [walks over to cat bowl] THERE’S ALREADY FOOD IN YOUR BOWL YOU IDIOT.

Cat: {feed me?}

Me: [shakes food bowl]

Cat: {YAY!} [eats]

Sophia is officially done with her Science Fair presentation poster, her final research paper, and her research presentation poster. Phew! She worked hard hard hard the last few weeks to get it all done on time.

Now Isabel just needs to get through Finals and it is time for a well deserved Coffey-kid break.

There is a part of me that is Pam, and a part of him that is Jim and that part of me is in love with that part of him. Jenna Fischer on her relationship with John Krasinski

Every time I see the quote, “…if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid,” I think, “well, by almost any measure fish are pretty stupid.”

I think I figured out the clever and elegant gesture for getting rid of one of these new Facebook “chat heads”: Throw it around the screen a few times and eventually it will disappear. Progress.

Me: “Sophia, you’re such a computer whiz I might hire you when you grow up.”

Sophia: “I might hire YOU.”

Somehow I don’t doubt it.

It’s too bad it would be inappropriate to record video at the elementary school play ground or I would show you all the little munchkins playing tetherball. It goes like this:

One kid grabs the ball and hurls it. Then all six of them scream, duck, run, or dive to the ground. Once the ball slows a little, they swarm it and repeat.

It is pretty adorable.

I do not always like pages on FaceBook, but when I do it is because one of my friends runs the page.

Sophia was running around the house last night singing “S-U-G-A-R! Jump into your racing car! It’s SUGAR RUSH! SUGAR RUSH!” And then vocalizing in a sort of fake-Japanese. It was adorable. She’s become quite a Wreck it Ralph fan.

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Does anybody in the Phoenix area have a copy of the book “The Ancient One” by T. A. Barron that Sophia can borrow? Having a homework emergency here. (tagging Mamie because she has way more friends than me!)

I can’t help bragging about my awesome wife, Mamie, who set a goal to run one race a month this year. She just did her third race, and second 10k, and set another personal best. She’s pretty rad. In fact, Van Halen thinks she’s rockin’ but that’s another story.

Whenever there’s one of those word searches, and they say “What word do you see first?”, the first word I see is always “a”.

Watching Hunger Games with Sophia tonight. The darn “I volunteer…” scene, when Gale carries Prim away always makes me want to cry.

I wasn’t given an age. Because nobody loves me. Just kidding, don’t give me an age. I don’t want one. I do want a morning bun from Urban Cookies, but that is a different story.

My wife says if this gets one million likes, I can go to bed.

We used to have a lot of fun with the “translate it both ways” thing. Volker Lamp, remember the Forest Marble Animal?

The steak reaches a top speed of Mach 6, and the outer surface may even get pleasantly seared. The inside, unfortunately, is still uncooked.

He says that like it’s a bad thing.

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