Eight trips around the sun…

The title of this blog post also happens to be the title of a song by Jared Rabin, but this post is about the “literal sense” of the phrase.

A trip around the sun is defined as a year in the way that we keep time, so I’d like to talk about eight years ago!

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[M.A.P.L.E. XI-9] The Old Spaghetti Works

Yesterday, my family went to Omaha to celebrate Mother’s Day, and each of us suggested parts of the celebration.

Molly and Brandon suggested that we go to Topgolf.

Samantha and I suggested that we have dinner at The Old Spaghetti Works.

Casey and Brent sneaked the bill away from Mom so that she didn’t have to pay a penny.

The focus of this post is on the dinner suggestion, as it’s got stories for me.

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Tin foil hat (no conspiracies or pseudoscience here)

According to Wikipedia, the wearing of a “tin foil hat” is a way of poking fun at conspiracy hypothesizers, pseudoscientists, and others. I’ve never worn a tin-foil hat in the figurative manner, but there may have been one time where I wore a tin-foil hat to imitate Medieval armor.

Nevertheless, I’m not trying to start a conspiracy here. But, there is something that makes this title worth it!

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[M.A.P.L.E. X-27] A preview! OR: How soon I forget!

Ever since I had a smartphone, I have often used apps such as Shazam or SoundHound to identify songs that I don’t know (and sometimes even ID songs that I do know, to test if it can hear).

Sometimes, if it was something particularly salient, I would write it in my journal and add it to my Music List. But that didn’t always happen.

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