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Speaking of Spanish
Every once in a while, I get an urge to try to learn to speak, or at least read Spanish. Recently, Men in Black was on the Telemundo broadcasting network. I tried to watch it but gave up after a few minutes. The dubbing was disappointing because the actors don’t speak Spanish and the dialogue…
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Parsons Chairs Our Latest Knockdown Furniture
Our old Parsons chairs are getting pretty lumpy, so we ordered some new ones. We generally buy and put together knockdown furniture to save money, although squatting on my haunches and sitting on the floor while cranking a hex head wrench makes my joints sore. Sena was having a little anxiety about the chairs. Ordering…
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Side By Side Steal Juggle
We took a couple days to get the hang of the side steal juggle. It’s not easy and a lot of the throws look more like sneaky passes than steals. But it’s a lot of fun! Sena juggles with her arms really reaching for the sky, like she’s getting robbed—which actually fits this complicated crime…
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Juggling Updates
Well, I’ve been juggling for a year now. I have been trying to learn the shower juggling pattern for 6 months. I can still do only about 3-4 throws. I think it’ll happen eventually. All of the juggling balls are downstairs on the lower level since all the upstairs doors were repainted. We can’t scuff…
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Claw Back Those Juggling Balls in The Steal!
Sena and I have been practicing the front steal trick in juggling. It’s another two-person juggling pattern that took us a couple of days to get right—sort of. We tried it at first by counting the throws (and catches), which helped us sustain the pattern. On the other hand, it was a lot more fun…
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Geezer Level One Leg Stand Juggling
This is just a suggestion for whoever’s on the rules committee for juggling world records. Recall that a couple of young guys grabbed world records for longest time juggling the 3-ball cascade while standing on leg. The current world record is a little over 22 minutes. Wow! I think there needs to be a new…
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Drain Grates Screwed!
Well, early this morning all the drain grates were screwed down tight. We never heard the workers. The rocks we had set on top of them were all piled up neatly on our back yard patio. Any critter that tries to yank those off will get a hernia. If those grates come off again, we’ll…
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Sena and Jim Do Two Person Juggling Again!
Against all odds, Sena and I did what looked impossible the other day—Two Person 5 ball 2 Count Asynchronous Juggling. For some reason that was harder to learn than the first two person juggling trick we learned. You can find only a stick figure GIF of how the trick is done on the web. It’s…
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Butch Haircut Fixes the Bozo Effect
Sena gave me a butch haircut the other day. What led up to that? About a month ago, I got a haircut at a local shop. Usually Sena cuts my hair (she’s been doing it for decades), but I occasionally go out for a haircut. I was pretty impressed with the guy who asked me…
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Door Painters Remembered Everything But The 3 Legged Pig Joke!
The door painters remembered everything but the 3-legged pig joke yesterday. But they remembered everything else. They worked pretty hard getting the doors back on the hinges. One mystifying thing was that they rehung all the newly repainted doors without leaving so much as a smudge on them. They were spotless. We don’t know how…
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