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tagsAll posts tagged with "my-stories"
2023 Christmas Shenanigans
December 29, 2023
Every year, I create a big photo book from our activities over the year. It's mostly of the kids, with some other family portrait or maybe one pet picture. I print off three copies, and those get given as gifts to both of the grandmothers and to Mrs. theskinnyonbenny.
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Christmas Tree
December 14, 2023
A couple of weekends ago, we headed out for the annual cutting down of the Christmas tree. We drive out in the parts of rural Louisiana that are in the hour or two from Baton Rouge, and there's not really another time that we get to these parts of the state. I forget from one year to the next that rolling hills of East Feleciana Parish are kind of pretty. Even more so with the little bit of changing leaf color that we see up there. It's not New Hampshire in September, but it's prettier than you would think.
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Travel Update, Site Update, Social Butterfly
November 01, 2023
There are a lot of upcoming changes to the site, as I still try to get all of the old stuff re-posted. Not much here, other than to report on some planning that we've done, as well as some info on what site stuff is coming up. We finish up enumerating how immensely popular theskinnyonbenny family is this week.
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Praising the Lord At Circle K
September 08, 2023
A bunch of nonsense about getting a drink at Circle K and then going to work from the library. I had a couple of run ins with odd people. Also, I love the new checkout gadgets at Circle K.
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Nothing Going On, It's Just Fucking Hot
August 30, 2023
I went to look for hurricane coverage this morning and found to my surprise, that Hulu live has The Weather Channel now. I hope the damage from this one is minimal, and that the loss of life is limited to unloved assholes. I thought this one would be too far east to affect us, but we're having a "way west of the hurricane" days, where there's a good breeze, lower humidity, and sunny skies.
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I Most Definitely Did Not Get a Parking Ticket Today
August 23, 2023
I have a new morning routine that puts me in the line of fire for parking tickets. Today was the first time that it became an issue.
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Driving Blues
August 18, 2023
It's been a lot of driving lately. Coming back from Maine was two really long days. Camp pickup wasn't until 10:00. We left from there and drove until the wee hours. 11 states, and it was all bumper to bumper traffic from Maine through New Jersey.
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CWS Championship/Kickoff Summer 2023 Trip
July 04, 2023
We got off later than usual, but we're on the road again this summer. Here's how the first week+ of our trip has looked.
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Why Gangsta Paradise is Stuck In My Head Today
May 17, 2023
Back before the days of blogs and digital images, Mrs theskinnyonbenny and I got married and took a follow-up trip to Ireland. We toured around for a bit and happened to end up in Dublin at the same time that then-president Clinton was in town. You young uns won't remember, but back in the day, terrorists would occasionally blow up buildings in Ireland...
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Sporting Life
February 04, 2020
Marathon, boat related, beer drinking, swim meet. This post is just a disjointed mess of small things that have been going on.
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How to Championship
January 16, 2020
Every time that one of my teams plays for a championship -- an experience that I may or may not ever have again -- I get better at how to do it. Here are my championship stories and how I get better at it every year.
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Happy New Year, Internet
January 09, 2020
A few guilty paragraphs about not posting more, a funny text message, and a video from New Year's that made us laugh.
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Boo City Planners
August 31, 2018
There are a lot of reasons to take the city planners in Baton Rouge to task. Here's one of very little importance.
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Jeep Stereo
August 30, 2018
Driving a Jeep is great, as long as you don't mind rain dripping on you while you're driving, the check engine light being permanently alight, and if you want a consistently working stereo.
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Food Thief
April 12, 2018
This is really short but funny. Not adding a spoiler here -- just go read the whole post.
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Louisiana Marathon Recap
January 18, 2017
The Louisiana Marathon — or as it's officially known in my skull, the Louisiana Marathon of Mimosa Consumption — was Sunday. I got up early and hauled a small tailgate party's worth of chairs, tables, and music out into the driveway so that I could collapse exhaustedly into my chair and nurse my breakfast alcohol as healthy people who had already run 23 miles (23!) that morning passed.
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2017 Resolution: Wipe Your Butt
January 04, 2017
On Christmas morning, I went in for my morning deuce, and found that there was about three squares of toilet paper left on the roll. I had been in both of the other bathrooms the day before, and I knew that this was the extent of toilet paper in our house.
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Halloween-time Recap and Pictures
November 07, 2016
It's been like a year and a half since I got photos posted to this web site in any sort of manner that is timely enough to share. Until now. We kicked off spooky weekend number one with a visit to a "haunted corn maze" out in the middle of nowhere. It ended up being a really big corn maze that I suspect looked very little like its map picture:
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Hard Drive Hard Times
September 01, 2016
A couple of weeks ago, I had an external hard drive go bad. That's bad news for me, because it's the one I use for both my main laptop's backups and also my music/movie file storage. Not a huge deal -- I always keep two copies of everything -- but I definitely need it back in service.
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Groundhog Money Burn and Little Kid Talk
February 03, 2016
This is just three totally unrelated short little posts about what's been happening around the theskinnyonbenny house.
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How to Stay Married for 20+ Years
December 05, 2015
Last week, Mrs. theskinnyonbenny and I celebrated our twentieth wedding anniversary. I'm not nearly old enough to have been married twenty years, just as I am not nearly old enough to have a younger sister who dotes on grandchildren, yet here we are in a weird parallel universe where both things are ture.
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Old Man Gripes
November 02, 2015
As I've mentioned in this space before, I'm an old man now. It's time to start publishing my gripes.
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Purging My Innermost Complaints
May 28, 2015
I keep hearing something that is turning me into a deranged, foamy-mouthed lunatic. I'm not sure if this has just started, or if I've just started noticing. But I keep hearing people say "bolth" instead of "both." Are these maniacs stooges for the "L" lobby? Also, comments on a podcast, some journalism, and a sailboat electronics installation. It's not as disjointed as it sounds.
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Old Man/Young Boy
March 26, 2015
A double post, first going into how I'm older than shit, and then followed by some cute daddy-blog crap.
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Drive Tunes and Thoughts
March 16, 2015
A big nerdy reflection, a little Three's Company content, and then an out-of-the-blue joke that really hits.
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You Checked Our Shitters, Honey?
December 08, 2014
The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we went to get our Christmas tree. The specific criteria we had made it hard to find a place to go:
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This Post About Gamecocks Has Nothing to do With Steve Spurrier
May 09, 2013
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Taco Bell to Mike Andersons with "What I Did This Week" In-between
March 11, 2007
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Such a Loosely Bound Collection of Crap, That I Can't Think of a Title
June 28, 2006
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Unintentional Snazziness
May 13, 2005
The other day, I came in to work, and was told that I look "snazzy." From my perspective, I looked like I always look, but there must have been something different that day. I like the thought of "unintentionally snazzy" being a phrase to describe me, though.
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My Ideal Vegas Sports Book
January 25, 2005
Dry eyes, nosebleeds, itchy skin. You guess it! It's time to go to Las Vegas. I imagine that I will spend a good percentage of my time in a sports book. I've spent a lot of time in them over the years, and I've yet to find one that meets all of my criteria for an "ideal" sports book.
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The Bum at Lowes
January 06, 2005
I've been begged by this guy before. He's usually after fifty cents or a couple of bucks. Fairly friendly. I wonder why I can remember people who beg from me three times in a year, but I can't remember to take out the garbage on Thursdays. Tonight, he wanted a ride to Tom drive. It was real close, so what the heck.
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My Own Panic Room
December 21, 2004
I woke up yesterday morning at around 5:00. I'm not sure why I was up so early, but I was fresh and ready to start the day. I went out to the living room where the gas fire still warmed the air. I watched most of Sports Center and a little bit of the news on CNN. Then I took a shower and went to work early. It was a normal start to a day that would end very abnormally.
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Blockbuster
October 15, 2004
We all know how the late fees work at every video rental place in the world. You rent a few movies, keep them too long, they charge the late fees to your account, and then you pay those the next time you rent movies. This is the unwritten agreement between all movie renters and rental places that was established right from the infancy of the video rental industry.
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Pajama Pants
September 21, 2004
For a couple of weeks now, I have failed to mention my fight with a four year old over pajama-bottoms. No one has ever accused me of being the most mature grown-up in the crowd, but I proved over the Labor Day weekend that I can be as childish as, well, as a real child.
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Faggotted Up
September 17, 2004
This was a mean little thing that I did, but also funny. Sorry about the offensive title.
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Tired and Sore
August 12, 2004
I have really put this out of shape body through too much in the past week. Monday was one of the most sore days that I've had in several years. Today isn't a lot better, to be honest. I'm not really old enough yet to sit here an enumerate all of my aches and pains. (Although I could see getting to that point in 20 years or so. Won't that be exciting!)
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Questions for the Bald Guy
August 06, 2004
The novelty of me shaving my head has finally worn off. My hair actually grows back quite quickly. It's hard to keep a good Charlie Brown look going. As you might imagine, showing up after lunch with your mane lopped off leads to some good reactions. I wish I had thought to set up the video camera to catch the expressions of passes by.
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Being a Guardian
July 13, 2004
Brent and Crystal have raised good kids so far. Annika and Jake are tough, active little ones. No one ever stops to whine over a bruise; they just pick themselves up and keep moving, no matter what happens. On the other hand, I've heard Jake scream loud enough to blast paint off of a wall when he was put to bed. And I've heard him keep this up for 30 minutes or more. So keeping them for a weekend was certain to be an adventure.
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Rock-Paper-Scissors
June 16, 2004
This morning on Sports Center, we got a three-second snippet on the Rock-Paper-Scissors national championship. Yes, there is a series of people who go to a big city and compete in Rock-Paper-Scissors. Naturally, I'm intrigued, so I've endeavored to find out more. One thing to know about me is that I think mathematically and logically. And with that thinking, Rock-Paper-Scissors is a fair game of chance. It should be as predictive and as fair as a coin toss, or cutting for the higher card. Try as I do to believe that this is the case, my real-world experience with RPS proves this to be false.
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The Two Worst Smelling Places in Baton Rouge
May 25, 2004
I know a lot of people hate "lists," but don't count me among them. A couple of weeks ago, I started making a list of the 10 worst smelling spots in Baton Rouge. Every time I try to write down the list, I come up with two really legitimate entries, and some random lame filler entries.
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On the LSU Lakes
May 11, 2004
I moved to Baton Rouge in the fall of 1989 to start school at LSU. Ever since then, I've never been more than a few minutes from the lakes that frame the campus. I've walked, driven, and cycled around the lakes countless times. I've seen them smooth as glass and frothy with whitecaps, teeming with wildlife, and covered with rotting dead fish. These little lakes can give you anything.
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On the Refrigerator Door
April 21, 2004
As I was looking through the refrigerator this evening, I picked up a bottle of food off of the door. It's funny how all refrigerator doors are full of the same bottles and jars of stuff. You never even see the things until you happen to want a pickle, or you wonder if there are any of those spiced beans left that you bought to put in Bloody Marys.
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Evening in Patpong
March 27, 2004
I'm planning to post many web log entries from Thailand during my trip over there in the next two weeks. There is only one problem with that. Every time someone looks at pictures or wants to talk about my last trip there, they get hung up on one particular story. It was actually Heather who was pretty insistent on getting to see the filthy side of Bangkok. We packed in a lot of activity, and I can honestly say that we could not have experienced more cultural oddities than we did in such a short time. Thai smut is just one piece of the big puzzle.
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Things are good in Baton Rouge
March 23, 2004
You know, this really is probably the best time of year in Louisiana. Consider all of this:
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St. Patrick's Day
March 16, 2004
As you've guessed by now, the Baton Rouge St. Patrick's Day parade was this weekend. This is certainly the best one that we have in town. It always takes place at 10:00 on a Saturday, and the weather always cooperates. This year was no exception: enough clouds to keep it from getting too hot, but plenty nice enough to be outside.
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Introducing Bonsho
March 02, 2004
I am surprised that I have managed to go this long without telling any of you about my Las Vegas trip. There are a few stories to share, but not too many. Before I get to the point on this one, I'll mention a star-spotting.
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Mardi Gras 2004
February 26, 2004
Yesterday was the final day of the Mardi Gras season, and as some of my regular readers might guess, I like to catch a parade or two during the month. I admit right now that I had a crappier parade-going schedule this year than most. We had pretty consistent cold rain in February, except for the final weekend, when we were in Las Vegas.
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It's Time for a Spanking
February 11, 2004
Here's an interesting question for the married men readers to consider. This came up in a conversation at work about a year ago. I can't remember how it worked its way into the conversation, but whenever I think of it, I can't help but laugh.
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M----t Wrestling
February 08, 2004
It started with an email last Wednesday from Shelly. Yes, we went to see little people wrestling. It's as problematic as you're thinking it might be.
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