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Today I dropped off the last of my thru-hiking family, BooBoo (a.k.a. "Momma Bear"), at Reagan National. I was horribly saddened to see her depart. We drove in circles around Alexandria and the District, as I did not wish to return to my office any sooner than was absolutely necessary.

I despise saying farewell to my few remaining friends. I was in a funk the...
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Mom allows you to burn your hand on the stove. You do it once. Then, mom doesn't worry about you burning your hand on the stove anymore.

As a child you are forced to wash and dry the dishes. You loudly protest this form of slave labor. Due to recklessness, you break one dish too many. You find yourself forever relieved of said oppressive duty....
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So my realtor is a long-time friend of the family. He was close friends with my aunt before I was born, and he's known my parents for the past 20-some-odd years.

I was a little apprehensive when I first reached out to him with regards to forming a strictly financial relationship. I have not seen the guy in well-over a decade and was curious how...
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So every two weeks I visit my local vampires to donate platelets (every 56 days I spice up my life by donating some sexy whole blood). Over the past several months I have fallen into the habit of making these donations every-other Friday.

I head straight to the Apheresists after work, spend two hours bullshitting with the ginormous Samoan who works there (the boy has...
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I wonder if my ex-roommate realizes I still have access to his Netflix account?

Not that I would do anything to disrupt his steady diet of Kurosawa-esque samurai epics, or his libertarian-driven political documentaries... I just take some small amount of pleasure from giving random ratings to movies I know damn-well he'll never watch.

Apparently Mike really enjoys Veggie Tales and Hillary Duff movies. Go...
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