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	<title>How Did I Get Here?</title>
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		<title>Selective Service For The Man Cub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;By the time I&#8217;d grown up, I naturally supposed that I&#8217;d be grown up.&#8221;   
- Eve Babitz


As you read yesterday, my man-cub has now become a man, or at least in the legal sense. His 18th birthday means one more thing I made sure we took care of…
Selective Service.
For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/02/08/selective-service-for-the-man-cub/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday and Happy Super Bowl!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.&#8221;   
- Albert Einstein


&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.18 years &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;>>>>>>>>>>

Today, my boy becomes a man. Eighteen years ago this very day, my only son came into this world via C-section and now he takes his rightful place next to me as a man.
I couldn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/02/07/happy-birthday-and-happy-super-bowl/</link>
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		<title>This Is What Happens When You feed Them!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.&#8221;   
- Russell Baker


It’s no secret that I’m a softie when it comes to my kids. And that I’ve fallen into that inevitable situation where the kids gets older [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/02/06/this-is-what-happens-when-you-feed-them/</link>
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		<title>Can You Throw Me That Football? I Seemed To Have Kicked It Into The Stands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;I have seen the future and it doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221;   
- Robert Fulford


I have written a few times about going hiking up Squak Mountain but today, I was not alone.
My bro-in-law, his wife, and their two kids wanted to go so they called me up and I was more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/02/05/can-you-throw-me-that-football-i-seemed-to-have-kicked-it-into-the-stands/</link>
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		<title>Dreaming in a Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.&#8221;   
- E. V. Lucas


I had a dream last night.
I dreamed I was still back in Saudi Arabia and I was talking to someone, telling them that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/02/04/dreaming-in-a-dream/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Ask/Tell? Don&#8217;t ALLOW.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.&#8221;   
- Janet Long


I guess it’s time to weigh in on the don’t ask don’t tell situation. What I DON’T want to happen is to get into a huge back-and-forth discussion because that has been done to death over and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/02/03/dont-asktell-dont-allow/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Grandma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.&#8221;   
- Iris Murdoch


Today, most people celebrate Groundhog’s Day.
I do not think that a stupid forest creature coming out of his burrow and seeing (or not seeing) his shadow has anything to do with weather.
To me, this day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/02/02/happy-birthday-grandma/</link>
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		<title>Oxymorons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;The truth is rarely pure and never simple.&#8221;   
- Oscar Wilde


I thought thse were funny enough to post. They are dedicated to my father-in-law who is the master of bad puns.
(Hat tip to Theo Spark)
50. Act naturally
49. Found missing
48. Resident alien
47. Advanced BASIC
46. Genuine imitation
45. Airline food
44. Good grief
43. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/02/01/oxymorons/</link>
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		<title>Pro Toilet Bowl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.&#8221;   
- Unknown


Doesn’t count!
I never really noticed it before but it makes sense, even though it disgusts me.
The “Pro Bowl” is a weak sister excuse for a professional football game.
Logically, I know why this is:
- God forbid that a high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/31/pro-toilet-bowl/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Cool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Money doesn&#8217;t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.&#8221;   
- Hobart Brown


Today, we watched our niece and nephew.
OK, my WIFE did most of the watching. 
It’s nice to have a household again. To have a place where you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/30/were-cool/</link>
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		<title>Clowning Around</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.&#8221;   
- Charles Austin Beard


As long as there have been kids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/29/clowning-around/</link>
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		<title>Damn Puppies and Kittens Can Go To HELL!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;If you aren&#8217;t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.&#8221;   
- Vince Lombardi


Well, it happened again. Despite having about a trillion little projects waiting in the wings, I found something else to eat away my time like moths in a wool coat.
What is it this time? 
Programming.
My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/28/damn-puppies-and-kittens-can-go-to-hell/</link>
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		<title>The Big Blue Monkeys at BigO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;I won&#8217;t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.&#8221;   
- Carl Sandburg


Four words I hate to hear: The tires need rotated.
OK, there are many many worse four-word combinations but the concept of paying someone to do the old tire switch-a-roo a great day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/27/the-big-blue-monkeys-at-bigo/</link>
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		<title>Nurse, Hand Me The Sphincter Expander&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Computer games don&#8217;t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we&#8217;d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.&#8221;   
- Marcus Brigstocke

 (click to watch cartoon!)
As most of you know, I am retired.
And one of the things I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/26/nurse-hand-me-the-sphincter-expander/</link>
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		<title>TSTWBN: DEAD TO ME FOREVER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;I&#8217;m a godmother, that&#8217;s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that&#8217;s cute, I taught her that.&#8221;   
- Ellen DeGeneres


Here ye, here ye… OK, everyone gather around. I have an important announcement to make.

AS OF TODAY, THE 25TH DAY OF JANUARY, IN THE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/25/tstwbn-dead-to-me-forever/</link>
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		<title>Maybe Favre Just Didn&#8217;t Want To Go To Super Bowl XLIV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Three o&#8217;clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.&#8221;   
- Jean-Paul Sartre


Today I did what all red-blooded males on such an occasion would do:
I went to my brother-in-law’s house, sat on my ass for something like 7 hours, watched football, ate sub sandwiches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/24/maybe-favre-just-didnt-want-to-go-to-super-bowl-xliv/</link>
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		<title>Cheesed It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.&#8221;   
- Samuel Johnson


I was supposed to do a 10 mile run this morning with a group of people but after a late night last night, it kinda didn’t happen.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/23/cheesed-it/</link>
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		<title>Let The Music Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;If you can count your money, you don&#8217;t have a billion dollars.&#8221;   
- J. Paul Getty


My daughter had a basketball game tonight and while I know all of you know that I love my daughter dearly, I have to say, our team sucks.
“A” for effort and all that but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/22/let-the-music-play/</link>
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		<title>MY EYES!!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.&#8221;   
- Unknown


I Squaked today.
That means I ran up and down Squak Mountain.
Well, OK, I hiked up it and ran down it, if you want to split hairs.
It took me 1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/21/my-eyes/</link>
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		<title>Wasting Time in Front of the Boob Tube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Reality continues to ruin my life.&#8221;   
- Bill Watterson


I was right!
I would be paying for the leaf-collecting bend-over-rama I foolishly participated in yesterday.
And what form of payment would that be?
I looked like an Allen wrench for the majority of the day.
See what I get for wanting my lawn to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/20/wasting-time-in-front-of-the-boob-tube/</link>
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		<title>That Creaking You Hear Is My Youth Dying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.&#8221;   
- Oscar Wilde


A friend sent me a link to Loop’d which is kind of like a Facebook crossed with sponsorship for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/19/that-creaking-you-hear-is-my-youth-dying/</link>
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		<title>Pants and Milk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.&#8221;   
- Unknown


Yesterday I talked about my son and his ability to dig out moronic content out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/18/pants-and-milk/</link>
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		<title>Death Metal and Other Jackassery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.&#8221;   
- Jane Wagner


What better way to usher in a Sunday than Death Metal Rooster?
My son is taking college courses as a senior in high school. He is free to set his own study times and has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/17/death-metal-and-other-jackassery/</link>
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		<title>Roxie Plays Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.&#8221;   
- Al Capp


Since my sister is in town, most of the day was dedicated to spending time with her.
And by “spending time” I mean going and getting her from her friend&#8217;s house, bringing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/16/roxie-plays-games/</link>
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		<title>Sister Roxie Comes To Soggy Seattle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;You talk to God, you&#8217;re religious. God talks to you, you&#8217;re psychotic.&#8221;   
- Doris Egan

(with Chris and me)
I did it!
I went a whole week in the gym without flaking out!
Monday: legs and shoulders
Tuesday: treadmill routine
Weds: back and biceps
Thursday: treadmill routine
Fri: chest and triceps
Like I wrote about yesterday, I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/15/sister-roxie-comes-to-soggy-seattle/</link>
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		<title> Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Money can&#8217;t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.&#8221;   
- Leo Rosten


As most of you know, I do not have a job yet. Which is OK, the situation is temporary and will end soon. When it does, I know I will yearn for these carefree days where my schedule is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/14/failing-to-plan-is-planning-to-fail/</link>
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		<title>Freakin&#8217; AWESOME Gym Stud Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she&#8217;s a tramp.&#8221;   
- Joan Rivers


Since I’m now addicted to Failblog.org, I have to write today’s blog in that spirit (although for those of you that have been reading my swill for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/13/freakin-awesome-gym-stud-fail/</link>
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		<title>American Idol Swine Nine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Free advice is worth the price.&#8221;   
- Robert Half


Last night, it began for a 9th time.
And like every year, I must throw a blog its way to appease the American Idol gods.
And do some explaining.
I’ve explained this before so I will bulletize the main points:
- I never intended to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/12/american-idol-swine-nine/</link>
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		<title>Funky Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.&#8221;   
- I. F. Stone


Monday blues.
It seems it hit everyone since the blogosphere seemed to be quiet all day.
No calls.
Not much email.
It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/11/funky-blog/</link>
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		<title>Seahawks, Shysters, and Shawshankers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day: &#8220;Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.&#8221;   
- Gail Godwin


Hey look, I’m a sports guy.
Well, not really, that would be my brother. He can spout off just about anything you want to know about football but I just catch the wavetops and most of the time, not even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grose.us/blog3/2010/01/10/seahawks-shysters-and-shawshankers/</link>
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