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Weight Watcher’s Journey May Require Duct Tape
The adult arm weighs eight pounds, about five percent of one’s body weight. Thanks to my holiday junk food diet, I’m that much heavier. I awoke this morning and had an epiphany: I still have the same arms. The calories … Continue reading
Losing Sucks, No Matter How Old You Are
(Hockey Player Magazine, January 2014) Seven percent isn’t bad. It depends on your point of view. Consider weight loss. If I was seven percent lighter I’d weigh a svelte 162 pounds, not bad for a guy fending off love handles … Continue reading
Time well spent is all guy wants
No matter where you are at any given moment today it’s either tomorrow or yesterday somewhere else. Years ago I visited Sweden which is nine hours ahead of California. I returned to work and a colleague handed me a fax … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Parent and Kids
Tagged chico, eric miller freelance writer, etcguy, etcguy facebook, hourglass, infinity scarf, lu lu's, mayan calendar, Stockholm, Sweden, work bench vise
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Wife Trumps Husband at Christmas
The human brain starts working the moment one’s born. For guys, it stops the moment they speak to their mate. Guys process information in the left hemisphere of the brain, or left brain. We’re task oriented problem solvers. I took … Continue reading
No Gravy for Pets this Christmas
I stepped in it before I said it. It was the dawn of December 26. Sunlight peeked over the horizon, chasing away a cluster of stars faintly twinkling in the western sky. I yawned and switched on the coffee pot. … Continue reading
Dad’s Halloween Costume Scares Neighborhood, But the Kids are OK
“Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.” Dr. Seuss The mornings after Halloween are the only days of the year my kids get a hall pass to eat caramel apples for breakfast. The apples are healthy, … Continue reading
Road tripping beats mall shopping
Category: Road-trip Anxiety Level: Prepacking Stress – High Level of Difficulty: Easy (once I’m driving) Results of Blowing It: Family counseling I love a good road-trip, especially desert driving. We’ll cross Nevada, a scant 320 miles, en route to … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged breckenridge, cold play, colorado, Eric Miller, etc guy, etcguy facebook, etcguy twitter, freelance writer, Highway 50, loneliest road, lulus, moab utah, nevada, phish, string cheese incident
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Guy Needs Help With Valentine’s Day
(Readers: This is one of my favorite “holiday” articles, previously published in the Chico Enterprise-Record in February 2012). National Compliment Day, Jan. 24, is the day you compliment others or pat yourself on the back. This begs a question. What … Continue reading