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Even though we have a huge winter storm on the way.
Yay for NaBloPoMo!

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Comcast! OK, OK, I’ll admit it: writing about how much Comcast sucks is a played-out, hackneyed theme, and using a lolcats meme to usher it in is really fucking dumb, but it’s my soapbox.
About a month ago, the fiancee and I decided to upgrade our teev. We used to have two big 36-inch CRT lobstrosities [...]

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I’ll be turning 30 on March 16th, and the lady friend and I are headed to Vegas. Just the other day I took a look at my license and realized it is going to expire on my birthday. Uh-oh. Since we’ll be coming back here on the 16th, I’ll need to renew my license before [...]

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Tonight was a night I’ve been looking forward to for a long time: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at the House of Blues. The show was excellent, of course, but that’s not what this post is about.
After the show, we walked to my car, which was parked on Boylston Street in front of some chicken [...]

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Last month, the UK publication, The Guardian, published their list of “1000 Novels Everyone Must Read”, a what’s-what and who’s-who list compiled by their staff in collaboration with a panel of “expert judges”, who we can only assume had very important-sounding names. Anyway, this list is allegedly the definitive fiction roll call for all those [...]

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It appears that my time as an unemployed loaf is over. No more rolling out of bed at 10. No more going to bed at 3 am on a weekday. No, folks, this guy now has a full-time gig. And that feels pretty good.
See, this is my first time being unemployed, and it seemed [...]

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Sunday after a show is always a sleepy day for me. I love going to some deserted bar with a book and having lunch and a few beers, take a couple of hours to just relax and chill. I needed a new book, so today I popped over to Cambridgeside and had a pizza at [...]

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So, I went to Hoffa’s band’s show tonight, and it was excellent. I was talking to a friend the other night that had just come back from brain cancer. Dude had a really big problem with short term memory, so I had to write down the name of the bar on a napkin, along with [...]

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Oh, man - yeah, she works.

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Yesterday was shaping up to be a pretty monumental day. I got an offer from a startup here in the Boston-area to be employee #12, and it was just too good to pass up. They seem really excited to have me there, and I’ll start work in March. So, after months of being unemployed and [...]

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