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And Then There Were Three
On September 1st, my wife gave birth to our daughter Alice (our first child). Alice's arrival was a little earlier than expected - Mom's due date was September 13th - but she popped out healthy and happy after a delivery that involved nearly 60 hours...
A Wrapup of Our 2007 John Muir Trail Attempt
As I blogged about over several previous blog entires (enumerated below), in August of 2007 my in-laws, a family friend, my wife, and I all tackled the John Muir Trail , a ~220 mile trail stretching from the Happy Isles trail head in Yosemite and to the...
The Upcoming Summer of Travel!!
This past summer my wife and I embarked on a seven-day backpacking trip through the High Sierras along a portion of the John Muir Trail . I blogged about this in a previous entry here on ScottOnLife.com: Week Long Backpacking Trip in the High Sierras...
I've Updated My Headshot
Like most men the only professionaly taken photograph I've ever had done (outside of when I was a kid and was taken in for family portraits) was at my wedding. It's the only time I, personally, have paid anyone to take my picture. However, in writing...
Posted: Mar 01 2006, 06:41 PM by Scott Mitchell | with 1 comment(s)
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me...
... than a frontal lobotomy. I'm sure Howard Dully would agree. In 1960, Dully, age 12, was given a transorbital lobotomy because, apparently, he was a problem child. From “ My Lobotomy“: 45 years later, a man tries to learn why : Dully never went back...
Posted: Nov 19 2005, 05:41 PM by Scott Mitchell | with no comments
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Video Game Addicts in South Korea
I went to school to a small, male-dominated engineering school in Missouri and we had our fair share of gamer geeks. Guys (and the occassional gal) who were either obsessed with card-based games (Magic and the like) or computer-based games ( MUDs or other...
Posted: Oct 05 2005, 10:55 PM by Scott Mitchell | with no comments
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What a Weird Day - I Got Punched By My Neighbor
Still a bit on an adrenaline high as I write this, so it's probably a bit discombobulated and jerky. Oh well. Plus it reads like a teen's diary, a lot of “He said, then I said“ in here... you have been warned... Had a meeting with some colleagues for...
Posted: Sep 16 2005, 05:25 PM by Scott Mitchell | with no comments
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