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David Ruffner has moved @[email protected] · 2026-06-03 · 03:38 UTC

Three good things from today:
- I was able to vote in the NJ primary elections this morning. I brought our two boys and they got to see the voting too.
- I played waffle ball with my older son (8 y/o). At first I was going easy on him but he was whacking everything. So I started trying to get him to miss (while not throwing it too hard). I got him with some high and inside pitches and some knuckle balls, but mostly he hit everything 😃.
- The kids were off from school and my mom helped watch them, so I could still work.

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Inside the Red Head's Head @[email protected] · 2024-02-09 · 12:20 UTC

Daily writing prompt Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time? View all responses

I don’t think this is a terribly interesting question, but I do think it’s a good writing prompt. Why? Because I would never ask myself this question. Does that make sense? Okay, that is the end of my philosophical discussion on writing prompts. Now let us answer the dumb sucker.

When I was a kid I used to play with Star Wars toys, virtually around the clock. I was probably 10 or 11 years old when I outgrew that activity.

I used to play baseball as much as humanly possible. If I wasn’t playing Little League I was playing wiffle ball with the other kids in the neighborhood. If I wasn’t playing wiffle ball I was just hanging out in the back yard hitting the wiffle ball out of my hand and then chasing it down. Sometimes I even used one of those pitch back things that let you play catch with yourself by throwing a ball off of it and then instead of catching it, I would hit it. I spent a lot of time tracking down wiffle balls or tennis balls in the back yard. I was done with all of that when I aged out of the town Little League when I was 15 years old.

On my 15th birthday my Uncle Johnny gave me a guitar. I have yet to outgrow that one.

Those are the first two kid-level activities that I can think of that were incredibly important to the little guy version of me that, as I grew up, stopped being important.

Hey Google Bard (it’s not Bard anymore, apparently it is Gemini now… okay, whatever) generate an image of a Jedi Knight playing baseball…

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/02/09/grow-up/

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