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My favorite game in an arcade has always been “Wack a Croc.” I don’t know what it is actually called, but I have always loved wacking the crocodiles as they come out to ‘bite’ you. I’ve gotten pretty good at it too- if you get 100 percent in the first half it brings you [...]

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The last few weeks, er rather the last few months of work remind me of the time my brother and I foolishly thought it would be fun to skateboard on the family treadmill. We quickly realized that by holding onto both rails of the machine to stay upright, you therefore could not hit the [...]

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Sunset on Sauvie Island Monday Evening…

Originally uploaded by JCTownsley.

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… I was traveling the country. My thoughts and prayers to all of those with lost ones on September 11th, 2001.
Here is my journal entry from September 13th, 2001- when I finally was able to pen some sort of rambling thought down.
September 13, 2001
Words cannot adequately express the last couple of days; beautiful dreams [...]

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I don’t know who reads this blog anymore- but for those of you who are out there, I need your help!
Through a series of events that are not really all that important, I have decided to compete again. I’m not really interested in competing against other people, but more so myself- pushing my body past [...]

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Lots of thoughts going through my head this weekend.
thoughts of meeting a great new friend…
thoughts of good friends that are changing directions…
thoughts of a two year old who almost drowned this evening…
thoughts of the past, of the future
Sometimes I think I should just stop thinking
Sometimes I think we all think too much.
We all process too [...]

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Today was the third pair of shoes Sidney has eaten. When she was a little pup, she ate my nice dress shoes- I understood that. All puppies have problems.
About a month ago she managed to throw my steel-toed work boots over a gate so she could sit in the shade and chew away. Fortunately she [...]

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