Back-Breaking MVP Performances, Angels Trapped on Earth, and The Most Boring Game of Futbol Ever

Heard this morning on ESPN’s formerly-known-as-Cold-Pizza First Take show:
“During that time, Alex Rodriguez literally carried the team on his back.”
Really? Really, incredibly successful baseball analyst? A-Rod literally carried an entire team of professional athletes on his back? In that case, I have no problem whatsoever with him being nearly unanimously voted the [...]

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Northern Exposed

This past weekend, Annalise and I saw the movie Into The Wild. The movie is about a young man who graduates from college and decides to bum across the united states with no money and no identification. He eventually makes it to Alaska, which led me to reminisce about my own voyage to [...]

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Leaving the Nest and Putting Down Roots

When I was looking at homes to buy, one of the houses my real estate agent showed me (despite the fact that I showed no interest in it at all) was an old home in down town Salt Lake City. The selling point of this house - and I’m not making this up - [...]

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Saving Daylight

Sunday was daylight savings time again. This time we “fell back” of course, and gained an extra hour. The question is: How did you spend that extra hour of your life? Some notables:

Used it to calculate exactly how many minutes I have until spring when I have to give it back.
Used [...]

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What’s Gnu?

A gnu is a wildebeest.
And I should have stopped there. A simple post with a question and an answer. Unfortunately I’m addicted to that most simple of all types of joke - the pun. So in addition to writing about gnus, I’m going to write about the news. Or, more specifically, my news. And not [...]

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