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Sean Broke His Foot

Suzanne — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:56:59 +0000

Monday morning during PE Class, Sean rolled his foot on the basketball court while playing capture the flag. It was hurting him when I picked him up from school, but he was still able to walk on it. I sent him to football practice, but after about a 1/2 hour the coach noticed that he was limping way too much. We thought it was a severe bruise at that point, so we treated it by icing
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Tooth Fairy Bonanza

Mr Papa — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:11:52 +0000

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Sean. He has been in tooth fairy hell. Not because he has been having his teeth fall out, but because of the opposite.

Sean has been a wee bit upset of late because Savannah has been losing a lot of her baby teeth. Sean doesn’t like the fact that she has lost way more teeth than he has and he
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Interesting Web Site

Mr Papa — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:07:57 +0000

First and foremost, I am not claiming what that image says. In fact, I had some trepidation about doing this post, but after the initial shock (and laugh) its a serious site. Recently, on the open source WordPress forum plugin that I help develop, we had a support request from a site called I Married A Fat Bitch.

My first instinct, on seeing the support
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Sleep Number Beds

Mr Papa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:31:31 +0000

A while back I mentioned that we were going to be purchasing a new Select Comfort Sleep Number Bed. Our previous mattress had served us well, but was 14 years old. Suzanne and I believed that we also preferred different style mattresses. The Sleep Number Bed seemed like a perfect fit.

About four weeks ago, we went out and purchased our Sleep Number Bed. Suzanne also tricked me and we ended up walking out of the store
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Savannah Donates Her Hair

Mr Papa — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:42:16 +0000

A while back Savannah heard about a program where, after a haircut, you could donate your hair for the making of a wig for those who are suffering from cancer or some other ailment or treatment where they had lost their hair. The only catch was that you had to have 7 inches or more hair cut off to ensure that there was enough to make a full wig. Since then, Savannah has been letting her hair grow
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Working Out

Mr Papa — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:38:22 +0000

I have been doing pretty good lately at my workouts. I have been hitting the elliptical trainer pretty hard. I am using it about 5 days a week for 30 minutes. Each workout burns between 300 and 400 calories, so I am pretty pleased with my efforts. I have been doing this regime for a month now.

However, as usual when I engage in fairly serious workouts, my weight is going the opposite direction. Since I
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Visit To The Eye Doctor

Mr Papa — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:03:46 +0000

Today, I went to see my eye doctor for a my roughly annual eye checkup. I do actually see an ophthalmologist due to occasional eye problems related to an arthritic condition. Luckily, the arthritic condition doesn’t really impact me, but the eye does when it flares up, which seems to be about every two years. Also, my sister has had glaucoma, so I always get checked for that.

With this visit, I was fully expecting to come away
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Another Baseball Win

Mr Papa — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:37:05 +0000

Sean’s team won their baseball game again tonight. It was another landslide victory by a score of 17 – 0. They remain undefeated for the year. It looks like they will go undefeated again this year.

Tonight was the first game of the season that I could not attend. The game was over at Ft Huachucha which is about an hour and a half from work for me. Plus, I have to go through the base
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More Heart Tests

Mr Papa — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:36:18 +0000

Well, the good news came back today… My heart is completely healthy…

As detailed in previous posts, there is some heart disease that runs in my family. Both my Grandfather and Father passed away from heart attacks. My Dad was only 47. As I am not too far away from that at 43, I am quite conscious of the risk factors.

Last December, I had a Heart Save CT Scan done to check the amount of plaque
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Elliptical Trainer Saga Continues and 300

Mr Papa — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:42:13 +0000

Unfortunately, our saga with our new elliptical trainer continues. The A/C power converter arrived on Friday and Suzanne spent about 2 hours with the support folks trying to the elliptical trainer to work.

When the converter was attached and the system plugged in, nothing happened. They had Suzanne switch a connector between the electronics “head” and the base unit thinking it was plugged in backwards. Turns out that it was, but we switched many times earlier trying to
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Elliptical Trainer Woes

Mr Papa — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:48:51 +0000

Recently, I posted about our troubles getting our new elliptical trainer operational. Today, Suzanne was finally able to get a hold of their support folks to try to track down the problem. After a few minutes of talking to the support rep, their answer was “Oh, you need the A/C power adapter and that will fix your issues”. Of course, our reply was “You mean the optional power adapter”? And that is exactly what they
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Spending Money Again

Mr Papa — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:21:41 +0000

Yesterday was another expensive day. I recently received a bonus check for my efforts last year. We paid off some bills, pumped up the kids college funds and then decided to spend something on ourselves.

Suzanne has been wanting an elliptical trainer of late and been doing a bunch of research. She says she wants it for me, but I dont buy all that. I wish I worked out half as much as she does. Anyways,
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Family Update

Mr Papa — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:42:40 +0000

Just a quick update on Mr Papa and his family…

Savannah continues to be sick. On the way home from our Cloudcroft, NM trip, she threw up in the car about half an hour before we got home. She had told us the evening before that she felt like she was coming down with something. I am sure it has something to do with being in the cold weather for 5 days. It
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Heart Saver CT Scan

Mr Papa — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:56:40 +0000

During my recent holiday vacation, I took the opportunity to visit the Tucson Heart Hospital and get a Heart Saver CT Scan. First, I am not currently having any issues or symptoms of heart problems, but given a recent rash of friends, co-workers and relatives suffering heart attacks and/or issues, and given my family history of heart problems, I try to be pro-active in watching my heart
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