Oh man, I already see my breath in the air outside. How depressing. 3 weeks ago

Summer Bummer

Posted by Exer on Thursday, July 1st, 2010

We’ve been having rain, rain and more rain the past couple weeks. Looks like it may be a typical wet Alaskan summer. Not that I should be all that bothered by it, since I’m not actually working outdoors at the moment. What do I really have to complain about, mowing the grass too often? I [...]

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Distant

Posted by Exer on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Alaska isn’t always a winter wonderland, covered in feet of snow. We are a green, green state, for a few amazing months of summer.

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Puppy Tales

Posted by Exer on Thursday, June 10th, 2010

OK, well he isn’t exactly a puppy anymore, but that doesn’t stop me from calling him “pup” every now and again. Whenever my mom stops by to visit she calls him “grandpa”, but that’s just because she is evil and likes to pick on helpless animals. Yup. Anyway, here is my PUP out enjoying the [...]

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Don’t Bug Me

Posted by Exer on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

This little lady decided to land on my brothers hand while we worked on his car in the driveway. She wasn’t in any hurry to fly away, so we grabbed a camera and decided to try out the macro lens.

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If You Musk

Posted by Exer on Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Every day is a lazy day for a muskox at the Alaska Zoo. It must be a lonely life. I went with my cousin, who kept saying things like “They want to be free!” every time we would reach a new exhibit. It annoyed me at the time, but looking back on the photos I [...]

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Sleepy Time

Posted by Exer on Sunday, April 18th, 2010

A polar bear at the Alaska Zoo enjoys a peaceful springtime nap in the sun.

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Be All That You Can Be

Monday, February 15th, 2010 - Blog

So my brother sat me down this morning to have a little talk. It seems that he is considering going into the military. Well more than that, he told me that he is 95% certain he will. Army, to be specific. The thought of them paying for his college education, while at the same time [...]

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Quotes: Clifton Paul Fadiman

Saturday, February 13th, 2010 - Quotes

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

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What’s Your Passion?

Saturday, February 13th, 2010 - Blog, Hobbies

I remember as a teen, and even older, sitting around with a paper notebook and collecting my favorite quotes from books I read. Or my favorite poems, music lyrics, and even once I started on a ‘history’ of characters from a favorite book series I had been reading. The only problem with that, it was [...]

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Quotes: Don Quinn

Friday, February 12th, 2010 - Quotes

“A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.”

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Legend of the Seeker

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 - Entertainment, TV

Victoria was awesome enough to get me the DVD of the Legend of the Seeker, the whole first season.  Five DVD’s full of my favorite TV show, based off one of my favorite book series of all time, The Sword of Truth, by Terry Goodkind.  Of course they don’t exactly follow along the story of [...]

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World of Whoa

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 - Entertainment, Games

Yup, this is pretty much how I’ve been spending my time lately. Not that I feel bad, it’s not like I have a job or a family I’m neglecting! But I can now say I have firsthand knowledge of how this game can break marriages apart, cause heath problems, and kill off any social life [...]

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Free Sounds Good To Me

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 - Books, Entertainment, Hobbies

One of the best perks I’ve discovered since switching to reading books digitally is the abundance of free (and legal!) eBooks out there.  Sure sometimes I miss that physically feeling of holding a ‘real’ book, and physically ‘seeing’ yourself get closer to the end as you read page-by-page.  And I do still read a paper-book now and again, usually [...]

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Gadget Lover

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 - Entertainment

I had a funny one-sided conversation with my mom yesterday, where she was talking — rather humorously — about my brother and his obsession with his car.  She was saying how amusing it is to see him spending so much time (and money) caring for it and modifying it, because that is exactly how our father has [...]

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The Road

Monday, January 18th, 2010 - Books, Entertainment

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them [...]

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End Of Another Chapter

Friday, January 15th, 2010 - Blog

I grew up in the sort of family that taught me to always do my best, and I would never have anything to be ashamed of.  I wasn’t the brightest kid, I admit.  I didn’t get amazing grades.  I didn’t ‘wow’ my teachers.  I was more than a little lazy, and often didn’t put in [...]

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