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11.10.73 Reflection

November 3rd, 2006 · 11 Responses

We’ve been in Portland, Oregon for almost 7 months.
I’ve been married for just over 2 months.
I’ve been around Earth just about 33 years.
I’ve been a Melvins fan about 10 years.
I’ve wanted to play the drums for over 15 years.
I’ve been overweight for 25 years. (Some might argue more…but it’s been about 40 for you, lard [...]

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Tags: Family · Fellows · Fishing · Glebelands · Life · Meghan · Music · Portland · Vinceland

Da’ Meaning

October 27th, 2006 · 11 Responses

So Madonna wrongly adopted/ bought/ stole a child from Africa.
So Google is taking over the world.
So Bushie don’t know the Internets from the Intelligents
There’s not much we can do today about those things, except get smarter than they are.
Meghan and I watched NOVA the other night, I made her watch it. I am on the [...]

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Tags: Action Sports · Family · Fellows · Grave Generalization · Life · Society · Vinceland · Work

Shame Less

October 21st, 2006 · 4 Responses

We designed, built, wrote, deployed and plugged the new grainsurfboards.com.
My brother’s company designs, builds, rides and sells hand-built wooden surfboards on the coast of Maine. We still have a few things to add to the site, but it’s fun.
http://www.grainsurfboards.com.

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Tags: Action Sports · Family · Fellows · Glebelands · Instrument · Life · Meghan · Vinceland · Work

Living Together

October 18th, 2006 · No Responses

Why do people feel the need to be part of a group? Sometimes so much so, that they’ll act completely stupid, inhuman and like an asshole, to remain a part of that group?
We have a little black dog named Sirius who came to us after he was abandoned by his first adoptive family. It takes [...]

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Tags: Family · Fishing · Life · Music · Society · Vinceland · Work

Moms and Dads

October 9th, 2006 · 10 Responses

My parents had seven of us LaVecchias. John, Emy, Mike, Catherine, Betsy, Vin, Nick. Unbelievably, all of us went through private high schools and some form of 4 year college all without incurring our own loans. I can’t even imagine what that would cost if we started putting children through college today. Indefinite debt (on [...]

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Tags: Family · Fellows · Life · Meghan · Society · Vinceland