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I Don’t Think Eight Is That Lucky

Pet Peeve of the Day: Being trapped inside a Boston Market while a torrential downpour floods the streets. ‘Round about 7pm this evening, heavy rains, lightning, and high winds pelted the metro Denver area, and it seemed like we were right in the thick of it. It started right after N and I [...]

Cosmo*burp*

There’s an interesting article in Next American City about the changing face of the suburbs. It’s particularly relevant to me as it uses my town Lakewood as an example of a new type of city coined a “Cosmoburb”, which means “wealthy suburbs that are also diverse and that increasingly contain non-traditional households”. The [...]

Feeling Blu

Random Pet Peeves Of The Day that may eventually gel into some kind of theme:

NetFlix is talking about charging extra for HiDef movies. Though I suppose it’s inevitable, I’m not happy about it. I came really close to canceling my NetFlix subscription awhile back because I wasn’t watching DVDs fast enough and so [...]

Tripping The Light Phantasm

I finally went jogging again this morning after a break. It’s not like I’ve had any health issues or anything. I just haven’t had time in the morning lately. And I don’t like running when it’s hot. Yesterday we broke the record for the most consecutive days over 90°, and the heat shows [...]

Next They’ll Be Taking Our Children

Today, I’m going to indulge myself in a brief session of What’s Up With That? Note: This entry has been sitting in my Draft Posts since the weekend. This is the first day I’ve been able to use it without more urgent blog topics getting in the way. In other words, I [...]

A Peppy Little Red And Blue Stew

I know you all come to FlasshePoint for the very best in insightful political coverage and commentary. In this election year, it’s the one place you can go to for the latest poop scoop. And since the Democratic National Convention is going to be held here next month, you can be sure that [...]

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