The Johnson Blog

We waited much longer to file our taxes this year because the good ol’ State of Illinois took nearly forever to get a social security number provisioned to David.  They must have a room full of monkeys banging out SSNs until they find an unused one… (psst…. Illinois… if you used an INFINITE number of [...]

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The current poll Which do you prefer - Walgreens or CVS is getting an interesting result, yet one that I suspected.  9 votes so far for Walgreens and 0 for CVS.
I cannot explain it but I just don’t like CVS.  Taken at face value, the stores are identical.  They have red lettering, similar store size, [...]

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Now, before you think being at home has already made me go crazy - please note that my plant has been named Edward McConaughey for about 2 years now.  What’s amazing is not that Edward is related to the infamous Matthew, but that I’ve kept a plant alive for 2 years!

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Every now and again, when I’m done changing David’s diaper, he ends up looking like… this!

I know, I know… terrible.

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I generated this today, and ended up not needing it.  In the spirit of conservation, I’ll put it here so it doesn’t go to waste.
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Last week, Justin Long proclaimed his desire to be a gamer. So he ordered a new PC and it arrived early this week. It’s kinda hard to be a gamer when all you have at your disposal is Minesweeper and Solitaire, so he had to order Myst IV and Battlefield 2 (to join us [...]

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Picture this.
You fire up your game console of choice and in no time you are driving a motorcycle (actually any motororized vehicle) in medieval times!

MotoJoust
MoatCross
MotoSeige (attack and overtake the castle)
Princess Run (mad race through the castle, up to the princess in the tower)
Cannon Dodge (avoid getting hit by the barrage of cannon balls)
More to come!

Doesn’t [...]

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This morning I tried to go to CircuitCity.com, but found they must open their website late on Sundays

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