I spotted this web by the side of the trail about halfway up Sugarloaf, just outside of Marquette.
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Monthly Archives: May 2003
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Delegation
It’s nice being in a relationship where you know you can count on the other person’s strengths to compensate for some of your weaknesses. Being able to cooperate and delegate helps reduce stress and builds bonds of trust and affection. For example, I love cooking, so I do most of the meals for the household. My fiancee is more particular than I am about how clothing gets cared for, so she handles the laundry. I’m meticulous about money, so I take care of making sure that the bills get paid on time. She likes houseplants, I don’t mind driving long distances. She takes care of the high-energy, spleen-venting, vitriolic rants, I mow the lawn. It’s an equitable distribution of responsibility.
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But first, a duck
Of course, I’ve got all these updates about the trip back from the UP, I need to post some of the photos I took up there, I’ve got vitriol to spew about the car accident I had yesterday, all sorts of things like that. But first, there’s this.
A duck.
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Hallo from the Northlands
Just a quick hey from up north. The UP is still here. I’ve got photos to prove it, and I’ll post them sometime after I get back. Right now I’m connected via my dad’s old PowerMac… It’s approaching antique status for computers, but it still works great for internet stuff.
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Road Trip!
Well, my Fiancee and I are going to be spending the weekend on the road, running up to my folks’ place in the U.P. and helping out at the camp for the weekend. Blogging will, obviously, be a bit spotty. On the other hand, I’ll probably have a whole bunch of good photos when I come back.
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Pale violets
Somehow I expect violets to be a litte bit more… I dunno… Violet. These ones have a kind of ghostly look to them that makes me think that there’s something important missing from their diet.
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All this and brains too!
Funky day at work… I did my first live operating room recording this morning, which means I spent about seven hours standing around in blue pajamas, a mask, and a stretchy shower cap while pointing a video camera at a hole in someone’s head. And the strange part was that it was a lot of fun.
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My day isn’t going to suck
Sometimes you see something in the morning that lets you know that, no matter how bad the day is going to be for you, it can’t be as bad as it already is for someone else.
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Inflatable head
Well, I’m mostly recovered from the weekend cold. I still feel like everything is hidden behind about two inches of expanded foam insulation. On the plus side, I’m not sweating buckets, my cough has tapered off to nearly nothing, and I’ve decided that a DayQuil and tonic is better than a gin and Alka-Seltzer.
Ok, I’m joking about that last one. I’m not quite to the point of making mixed drinks out of things that will simultaneously cause and cure hangovers.
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I’m ill…
I hate colds. Right now I’ve got a doozy of a summer cold. It developed last night and I woke up this morning with puffy eyes, a stuffed up nose, itchy throat and post-nasal drip.
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