September 17th, 2009

In which I’ve seen in the past week both of my parents and all of their siblings and nearly all of their siblings’ spouses and children.
For no particular reason, both of my parents came to town to visit this week. They’ve been divorced for twenty-seven years, so it’s strange that they should both have shown [...]

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September 14th, 2009

In which this is a very special OMG SO MUCH FAMILY edition.
Friday after work I jogged home and took a 3-minute shower. The boys picked me up in the band van at 6:30 and we drove to an RV park in Wallula to play the opening night of a biker rally.
When we arrived, there was [...]

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In which I love them but they’re totally exhausting.
When I got home from work last night, the house had been verily overrun by persons sharing my genetic material. It was insane: aunts, uncles, cousins, even a brother – they were all over the place.

We ate on the patio. There was a bucket of KFC (I [...]

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