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Entries from July 2005

Port Aransas - 4th Annual

July 29th, 2005 · No Comments

In a few years…she’ll be sitting in the drivers seat
Well, we’re back from our annual trek to Port Aransas. In case you’re new, Kayla and I make it a point to visit this little city on the Texas coast at least once a year. It started 4 years ago as a whim [...]

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Random Bag of Crap

July 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

All this for $8.66
I’ll abbreviate that to “BOC” from now on…this is a family website.
One of my favorite things on the web is Woot. Woot is a website where you have the opportunity to purchase one item per day (at a pretty good price). They often sell cordless phones, computer parts, mp3 [...]

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Hello Class of 85

July 21st, 2005 · No Comments

Latest picture of me in my office - I tried to crop the photo to hide the clutter
Many of you are visiting here for the first time because of a recent series of Evite invitations I sent out. I’m sure you were thinking “Surely, there can’t be that many “Guentzels” out [...]

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Harry Potter; Poker and Round Rock’s Finest

July 17th, 2005 · No Comments

The Object of Desire
One of my favorite lines from a movie is in “Ghostbusters” starring Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd (among others).
At one point in the movie, a secretary (played by Annie Potts) is trying to impress one of the Ghostbusters named Egon (played by Harold Ramis). She goes on about [...]

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High School Reunion

July 12th, 2005 · No Comments

I’m a big baseball fan. I like to draw silly little analogies between life and baseball and I think there’s a lot of wisdom in some of the quotes you read surrounding baseball (Yogi Berra nonwithstanding).
Life threw me a curve ball last night.
My 20 year high school reunion is coming up [...]

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Erik Progresses

July 11th, 2005 · No Comments

Erik figured out how to use this downed stroller as a ladder to the chair — we are so proud
Erik has been growing up at an amazing pace. It seems like only yesterday he was doing the “commando crawl” and barely getting around. He’s a world class crawler now. Not only that, [...]

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BREAKING NEWS: Fire at our house!

July 6th, 2005 · No Comments

Here’s something you don’t want to see behind your house!
Technically speaking, the fire was behind our house in the brush.
Imagine getting in your car and getting a call from a loved one saying “Uh…there’s a fire at our house. I’m dropping the kids off at your mother’s house and then I’m coming [...]

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