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I can't believe I've been doing this Track Tuesday thing for nineteen weeks. That's longer than 88% of my extramarital relationships!

Today's song is a good pumper-upper for all y'all with a case of the "tuesday-mondays" (or, in the case of me posting this video a little on the late side, the "wednesday-mondays"...)

And speaking of Harvard Square, Happy Birthday, David.*

19. Tapes n' Tapes: Insistor

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*When my brother isn't busy getting his PHD in Applied Physics and writing papers about wtf = 8qyenuayxo272jyxyxyxyp0ri3uscience, he plays shows in and around Boston with his band, The Self Assembly. If you're local you should totally go see him play some night and buy him a drink after the show because one day? He will save the world with his brain and charisma. In the meantime, you can follow his band on twitter because there are only two other people following him and one is me which will NOT do.

!!! vs. ???

Tonight, as we were getting the kids ready for bed, I witnessed something unfortunate. Archer was brushing his teeth and Fable was (brace yourself, germaphobes and everyone else) standing against the toilet, flipping the seat up and down and batting her hands around the sides, like she was searching for treasure.

kind of like this except disgusting

And the worst part? Hal was in the bathroom witnessing the whole thing la-di-da-whatevs.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo(slowmotion)nooooooooo...

"Hal!!!! What the hell? Get her away from the toilet! You can't just..."

"What? She's just having fun. No big deal."

"No big deal? Her HANDS ARE IN THE TOILET!"

"It's not like they're IN the water."

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"???????????????????????????????????????????????????"

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"???????????????????????????????????????????????????"

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Okay, okay! I'm sorry. I won't let her play with the toilet anymore."

Say it with me, people:

"!!!!!!!!!!!&^*&%%@%!&^@%&!@&^*!&^@*&!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"!!!!!!!!!!!&^*&%%@%!&^@%&!@&^*!&^@*&!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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My Parents (Are) Awesome

I was going to submit this picture to My Parents Were Awesome but decided to post it here, instead.

Wendelin Welsh and Lawrence Woolf at UCSD, Summer 1976

The following winter, they married and five-years later, I was born, but in this picture (which currently resides on my fridge) Wendy and Larry were just two crazy college kids in love.

Thirty-three years, three children and two grandchildren later, they still are. As a married person who knows how hard it can be, that's some seriously inspiring shit.

My parents were awesome. They're even cooler now.

Eating fish tacos with the grandkids, Moonlight Beach, Summer 2009

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costumes of the literal kind

Archer trick-or-treats with friends

The beauty of a child's imaginative naivete is that they believe. They believe a costume is a magical transformer - that people are what they say they are. That looks aren't deceiving.

On Halloween (Archer) was a Chess King and his sister was a Flower Garden and his parents didn't look like they were supposed to look and that was REAL to him.

And so? I went with it...

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