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The energy to look for keys

Allison went into my office saying: “Can I borrow your keys to my car?  I can’t find my keys and I don’t have energy to look for them.” Ironically, she was on her way to the gym. So she left with my keys.  Later I saw them by the front …

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The great phone search

Usually when I can’t find my phone around the house, I use another phone to text a special code to my phone that takes it out of silence mode and makes it start ringing, which makes it easy to find.  But this time, right when we were about to go …

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Renaissance hatch

Today at Renaissance Faire San Jose, we sat down on the grass to eat lunch.  When we finished and stood up we realized that Allison had been sitting on a banana peel.  It didn’t hatch.

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Cathedral souvenir

We left St. Canice’s Cathedral and were a third of a mile into our leisurely walk toward Kilkenny Castle when we stopped to eat and I realized I had walked out of the cathedral with their laminated visitor’s guide… I put on my high gear to walk back to the …

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Ooops, I’ll be right back

When keynote to over 200 people yesterday, I told them we would do an activity that involved my reading a passage to them.  I gave them instructions on what to do, and when I looked for the passage, I didn’t have it on me.  There they were waiting for me …

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Goodnight headache

Allison has a headache so she decided to take an Advil. But after she took the pill, she realized it wasn’t an Advil, but an Advil PM.  It’s 5:30pm.  She’ll be going to bed early tonight.

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Christmas lottoparty!

A programming error in a South Carolina’s Christmas Day lottery game generated an overabundance of winning tickets.  $19.6 million worth. A store manager described a frenzy of people rushed in to purchase winning tickets. Photo: Bartosz Senderek

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Faulty Christmas lights

Pennsylvania woman receives $284 billion electric bill “We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong.” Horomanski said the $284 billion bill caused her to ask her son for a different Christmas present this year.  “I told him I want a heart monitor.” …

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