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Backyard Luge

Posted in Iowa, kids, photos, tagged dubuque, family, Iowa, snow on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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Icicles

Posted in Iowa, kids, photos, tagged dubuque, home, Iowa, winter on December 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »

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Icicles on my daughter’s balcony. (New photos up)

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I could have used this in Brooklyn

Posted in food, links, tagged food on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Lakeshore – [personal] Asian soda taste test panel
A taste test of some of the more unique beverages you’d find in an Asian market. Ours isn’t big enough to hold drinks that look like frog’s eggs in a can.

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Special Snowflakes

Posted in Iowa, tagged dubuque, Iowa, stupid people, transportation on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My street is a busy two way street that pretty much runs from the Mississippi River to the West End District of town. Cuts across the city, east to west.
My son’s school bus broke down (before it picked him up) and blocked traffic. It had its lights on. It had an SUV with lights on [...]

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Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds at Being Provocative – New York Times

Posted in commentary, education, kids, tagged autism on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds at Being Provocative – New York Times

We have your son. We will make sure he will no longer be able to care for himself or interact socially as long as he lives.
— Autism
So I called the man behind this and told him that my sons are not held hostage. [...]

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Do they have a faux gold one?

Posted in links, tagged links, weird on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

DVICE: Gold Pill makes your poop glitter for $425
Or perhaps some diamenelles?
We all already knew my poo didn’t stink, but now I want it to sparkle, too! Not for $425, though.

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I’m brilliant

Posted in college, kids, tagged kids, school on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I made my schedule for Spring 2008, and managed to keep my sons’ therapy schedules (OT/PT/speech) as is — no juggling there.
What I didn’t notice, though, was that on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have two classes on two different campuses. Whoops. I should have plenty of time to get from the downtown class to the [...]

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Dubuque Wants to be Green

Posted in Iowa, commentary, education, tagged dubuque, education, green, Iowa, transportation on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »

To be green, they’re going to have to change a few things. Despite all the mayor’s crowing about it, policies keep Dubuque from being as eco friendly as they like to make believe they are.
Let’s take, for example, the public school transportation system. Right now you must live in the zone for the school AND [...]

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