Up until today I’ve only been on the same flight as one public personality — that I’m aware of. At some point in the early 1990s we were flying back to Cleveland to see my family back there. On our Portland to Chicago leg of the trip we were on the same flight as the [...]
Categories: Being a Kid,Grown Up Stuff
Tagged: Buck Williams, flying, Ron Wyden
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- October 30, 2008 – 9:24 pm
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- By JASon
Tony Campolo was the speaker at this year’s Yearly Meeting for the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, and I happened to be the one responsible for the live streaming of it (you can still go watch the video on the site). He spoke three times, but there was one topic that has stuck with me [...]
Categories: God Type Things,Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: authority, NWYM, power, Tony Campolo
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- October 27, 2008 – 10:03 pm
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- By JASon
I heard an interview with David Rothkopf about his article in the Washington Post, and he talked about how there is somewhat of a cycle to economic policy. That’s started me thinking about economic policy, and where we are going to go in the next few years. The last time the US was in this [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: economy
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- October 12, 2008 – 9:46 pm
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- By JASon
Last summer our HOA decided to start enforcing the rules, and they started cracking down on brown lawns. I did my best to keep the lawn green with typical sprinklers, but there were two big issues with it: I had to remember to turn the sprinklers on I had to remember to turn the sprinklers off There [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
Tagged: sprinklers, yard
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- June 11, 2008 – 10:03 pm
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- By JASon
Got my car fixed. And the bill wasn’t too painful, which is always a bonus. That little bracket I mentioned was what connected my clutch pedal to the clutch cable to the . . . wait for it . . . clutch! A “few” dollars later and I’m driving again. My old clutch cable was [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
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- July 18, 2006 – 10:29 pm
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- By JASon
This is what I had planned for this evening: dinner with my parents, 5:30p worship rehersal for Sunday, July 23, 7p softball game, 8:45p This didn’t happen. Instead this is what went down. dinner with my parents, 5:30p while driving home my clutch pedal broke, 6:45p call Mauri (got Sherry) to let him know that [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
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- July 13, 2006 – 10:48 pm
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- By JASon
This website has started generating some media attention. Having bought a house a few miles down the road from work in a cheaper housing market I don’t look forward to “getting” to pay a $1.75 toll every time I drive to work — a whole whopping 4 miles — then $1.75 to drive home. *sigh* [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
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- June 10, 2006 – 6:52 pm
- Author:
- By JASon
The latest grass progress Originally uploaded by jschwanz. We’ve had some really great weather recently, so I was able to finally mow the new grass in the backyard. I think it’s really coming along, but there are still some bare patches that I’ll need to re-seed once we get more into spring.
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
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- February 16, 2006 – 9:53 pm
- Author:
- By JASon
All of my (and my parents’) hard labor in the back yard is paying off. Check it out.
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
- Published:
- November 12, 2005 – 1:19 pm
- Author:
- By JASon
I’m taking the week off because my parents are in town, but also to do work around the house. On tap this week is taking care of the backyard. The previous owners had two dogs, and they had sectioned a big portion of the backyard off for the dogs. Since we don’t have any dogs [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
- Published:
- October 17, 2005 – 9:48 pm
- Author:
- By JASon