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We live in Boston, a large-ish city with a large concentration of people all living in a relatively densely packed area. People are everywhere you look in this city, and quite a few of them are generous individuals, myself included.
I was a high school student at one point, pursuing athletics as well as a musical [...]

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Sup, loyal reader(s)!? We at THF have been pretty busy, pre-occupied, without a viable connection to the interweb, temporarily paralyzed, creatively indisposed, wrapped up with not watching the olympics, drunk, unconscious, and other otherwise unavoidably detained.
Sorry about that.
But we all know it’s summer, and you shouldn’t be sitting in front of your computer anyway. So. [...]

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Weeeellll, loyal readers of THF, it’s time to call a spade a spade.
The guys at assholes and mustaches have officially welched on our blog post bet, and unfortunately, we here at TellHimFred surrendered our thirty-day “take it easy on the welching shitheads” token a couple of bourbon shots ago.
We’re a Boston-based blog, as you know, [...]

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Yes, I *am* going to add my voice to the chrorus of sneering Boston fans who all heard the “Lakers in 4″ talk and said “no effing way”.
The Lakers are trying to play the Celtics at the C’s kind of ball, and the bottom line is they don’t know how to do it. They’re trying [...]

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I’m loving the new camera, and Toby has been a very good model. I was checking out how to set up a decent lighting scheme, and found an article called “Assembling a Do-It-Yourself Light Kit“. Though it doesn’t look too pro, the setup works pretty well.
I wish I had something funny or interesting to [...]

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At work we have a program where you can set pre-tax money aside each year to go into a flex savings account for medical expenses. They give you a “Benny” card, which is a debit card that is tied to the account. Last year I decided to put $800 aside for the account.
There’s a [...]

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I haven’t taken the time to sit down with a coffee and properly write this story until now. So here goes.
Once there was a dog named Toby.

Toby was very excited about Christmas time.

Toby’s owners went out shopping, so Toby was inside his crate all day. They felt bad, so when they got home, they decided [...]

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I have a very hard time waking up at 5:15 am. Though the alarm is set to that time, I can’t remember a time when I’ve actually got up without hitting snooze a few times.
This morning, I woke up when a dog was walking ontop of me.
At around 4:30 or so, apparently Toby [...]

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