two fell swoops

A year ago right now (during our Alkalai School project, I should mention) Andrea and I were lying on the side of the highway leading to Mt. Rushmore, where all the locals who don’t want to pay admission fees go to watch the fireworks display. Radios blared the standard fireworks “Proud-To-Be-An-American” mix and cars […]

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I was still a little hungry after we came home from dinner tonight, so I went to the kitchen and fixed myself a little bread with peanut butter. Andrea followed me in there and started inspecting the contents of the containers of leftovers in the fridge until she settled on a bowl of cantaloupe. […]

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Tim will soon write a post about our Valentine’s Day at White Castle. He will also probably take down this picture. But until then: UPDATE (by Tim): Yes, I’m weird about having pictures of my face on the  blog, so I took down the picture.  It’s still up at the White Castle Valentine’s […]

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Last weekend, Andrea and I went shopping around for refrigerators. I say “shopping around” because at this early stage in our potential refrigerator consumption, we went to a big appliance mart intending more to see what was available than to actually purchase anything.
The young man who guided us around the showroom kept suggesting large […]

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Yesterday on my way home from work I drove past this:

In a busy Midwestern college town, this has to happen to everyone at least once.  The poor guy was clearing snow away from his car using only his hands. I felt kind of bad about taking the picture, and then I remembered that I’d thrown […]

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Next week (Dec 1-9) is buy local week. Read this blurb from Think Local First:
“Where you spend your money is a reflection of what you want your community to look like. If each member of our community spent just 10% more of their purchasing dollars at locally owned businesses, it would make a huge […]

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Last summer, the Swoops took a trip to South Dakota and recorded music. We just pressed our first installment of this project, a 4-song 7″ record that you can buy exclusively on December 1st at the Shadow Art Fair!
Here’s the blurb Tim wrote about the project:
In the Summer of 2007, we packed our car full […]

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I’d driven by the sign a thousand times and always wondered what Putt N Glow was. I pictured all the little hills and faux-greenery of a typical miniature golf course, except inside, under bright florescent lights. But when I finally resolved to go there last week - with my fellow Swoop in tow […]

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Please share your opinion. Sorry for randomness.
Given: a refrigerator with two temperature control dials.

Refrigerator Dial: Labeled 0-9, where O is warmest, 9 is coldest.
Freezer Dial: Labeled A-E, where A is warmest, E is coldest.

Both dials turn left to right, where 0 and A are on the left-most end of the dial.
If you adjust the dial […]

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