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Steve at Random: How patient are you?
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Friday, August 9, 2013. How patient are you? When I drive to work in the morning, I see a line of cars.sometimes six or more.waiting in line to go through the drive-up at a popular, Seattle-based coffee hut. Whenever I see that many cars, I wonder who would have the patience or be that addicted to caffeine to wait a half an hour in line for a $4 to $5 latte or some other coffee-based concoction? I asked the woman how long...
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Steve at Random: 30 years of neighborhood memories
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Sunday, March 8, 2015. 30 years of neighborhood memories. I was 26 years old when we purchased our first - and only home - in Mandan. Now, 30 years later, we are the only family in the neighborhood who also lived here in 1985. I'm going to confine my comments to only our immediate neighbors but I could venture out to everyone on several blocks. Our home in Mandan. Except that the young lady who moved in after that was men...
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Steve at Random: March 2013
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Saturday, March 16, 2013. 1985-86.when we moved to North Dakota. The roads were atrocious, lots of ice and snow blowing around. When we arrived at our new home in Mandan, the Bob Lutkats, the previous owners, were still here moving things so we went out and ate lunch. When we got back to our new home, they were gone. On Monday, December 30, I started working at MDU. I was pretty much in awe and thought everything was ...
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Steve at Random: February 2013
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. Oh those embarrassing moments. The human mind is a funny thing. If you are like me, you can't remember dates or names, but you can remember a good story.or an embarrassing moment. So why do these memories come to mind? Because today, right before I had to leave for the North Dakota capitol for a meeting in the governor's conference room, I went to the bathroom at my office - as men my age are...
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Steve at Random: The Christmas letter
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Monday, December 16, 2013. We've been exchanging letters and cards with friends and family for years. I write one for my dad and also one for Belinda every year. Needless to say, the calendar notations didn't give me much to go one. But since I talked to my parents at least once a week, I generally knew what they had been up to and could draft up a letter and then let mom look at it and add or change some specific det...
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Steve at Random: January 2013
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Sunday, January 20, 2013. An incomparable Brazilian vacation. I just woke up from a Sunday afternoon nap, and when I was dreaming, I was back in Brazil. This is interesting because when I was in Brazil, my dreams were in the United States. However, it gave me some time to reflect on our adventures over the past two weeks. His answer was always the same, "It doesn't translate well.". Camila's immediate family were a treasu...
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Steve at Random: April 2015
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Saturday, April 11, 2015. Unlearning “cat” habits. Golfing is going to start today, so I went downstairs to get our golf clubs. By habit, I shut the door behind me so the cat didn’t sneak down. About halfway down the stairs, it dawned on me….we don’t have a cat. Somehow I have to “unlearn” all the cat habits that we’ve adopted. You could almost set your watch by it. Picasso would jump on our bed at 5 am, but before ly...
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Steve at Random: August 2014
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Thursday, August 21, 2014. The location is nearly perfect – halfway between the hospitals and the Interstate. The Woodhouse is one of the classic family hamburger joints. You come in, seat yourself in a booth and then you pick up a phone and call the kitchen to order your meal. Yeah, a meal at the Woodhouse is like stepping back into time…certainly the 1960s, maybe even the 1950s. But the real customer base of the Woodhou...
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Steve at Random: A tale of a tight squeeze on I-94
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Sunday, August 17, 2014. A tale of a tight squeeze on I-94. The plan was to move Taylor into the apartment in north Bismarck on Sunday, June 1. By the end of the month, Scott and Taylor would be married and then he would move in. Derek and Mark are on opposite ends of this photo. On Sunday afternoon, we loaded the Fischer’s horse trailer with all the heavy stuff in Mandan. Then we stopped at our house and we loa...Well, I...
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Steve at Random: Grandpa rules
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Devoted to family who want to know what Grandpa Steve and his grandchild are up to. Saturday, March 15, 2014. Whenever we have someone watch Grandpa, I have to write down a series of instructions so that the caregiver understands – and adheres – to Grandpa’s rules, which makes it easier on Grandpa and the caregiver. So here are the main ones. Dad takes several pills with breakfast, lunch and dinner. If he forgets what his pills are for, simply grab a couple of aspirin from the medicine chest and swal...
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