HeyJaredWeekly Dose of Mark
A semi-weekly journal of my life. Filled with the fun antics of my friends and neighbors, movie reviews, and other odd things.
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Every year my older brother Scott has a BBQ at his house, which he calls “The Day Before Labor Day Party and Mini Wiffle Gold Tournament.” I love going to it. I’ve always loved going to my family’s get-togethers. I didn’t know when I was growing up how rare it was to have gatherings with uncles, aunts, and cousins. Those gatherings were huge, as at one time I had 24 uncles and aunts, and 54 cousins. I’m including some cousins once removed, because they were my age. And they would all get togethe
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I want to thank the Germans. You need some context to understand my gratitude. My brothers and I have made it part of our yearly schedule to go fishing together in October. In years past, we would take our father and uncle. Now we are including nephews, cousins-in-law, and cousins once removed. It’s an extension of all the trips we constantly did together growing up: camping, skiing, sailing, biking, and fishing. As we got older, it got harder to keep doing those things with kids, at events, on
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Corey Macorek and I enjoyed lunch and a movie this week. We enjoyed our meal at Taco Street. Corey has a variety of food restrictions, but Tacos are something he can handle. This time I had three shredded beef tacos, and the seasoning and tenderness of the beef were outstanding. I’ve eaten here before, and this time I remembered to request “no cilantro.”I’d picked up Corey at his apartment so that he wouldn’t have to pull his mini-cooper out of the garage there. Corey’s first car was a Mini Coop
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The first thing I did after the Proctor Art Show last week was order additional canopy tent weights off Amazon. Rather than get more of the same barbell type, I decided to purchase the sandbag type instead. The benefits of the sandbag type are two-fold: Less expense and more weight. Four sandbags were less than twenty dollars, had a waterproof lining, and had four sets of Velcro straps on each bag to secure it to the legs of the canopy. I was able to purchase a hundred and twenty pounds of sand
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]One of the topics we discussed at Freelance Fandango was the Perseverance Effect. This immediately led into a conversation on how we, as creative types, both take advantage of and suffer from this effect. We also discussed what our plans for the week include. Stowe is going to travel to escort his in-laws to live in or near Tacoma. Greg Spence Wolf has been absent from our group for several weeks. He’s been taking courses on teaching and has just a little farther to go. We recycled a couple of
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