My dear wife Amy opens up her fortune cookie.
AMY: “I’m keeping this one. ‘You should be happy with your lot in life.’ It fits me.”
I open mine up.  I can’t help but grin.
AMY: “What’s it say?”
SCOTT: “‘It is time to try new things.‘”
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Fortunes are bullshit but nevertheless, my [...]

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 This Christmas gathering with the in-laws wasn’t that bad.  By the numbers…
General conversation I understood:  10 percent, the usual.
Number of three-month old babies with feeble neck control that I held:  1
 

 
Number of kids:  N/A  (Too fast to be counted… except for the babies with feeble neck control.  They’re pretty slow.)
Number of people who [...]

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It’s not so bad having your birthday the week before Christmas.  You almost always get some time off either that week or at least the week after.  Plus, it kind of worked out for Jesus too.
 
I spent my week off doing the same things I did back in high school during winter break: staying in [...]

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Blankets of snow outside.
Freezing temperatures in the basement.
Amy singing along with “Top of the World” by the Carpenters.  On auto-repeat.
Playing board games with the kids (chess tonight, maybe Battleship tomorrow).
 
My little girl playing circle time with the pieces she captured in chess.
My little boy playing Death Duel with the Table with his captured pieces (complete [...]

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