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The actual catalyst for creating this site was the completion of a xylophone that my son, Jack, and I built. I’ve always taken advantage of the vast information available on the internet. I am, however, guilty of not really giving back. Our\u00a0xylophone project<\/a> was extremely unique but had a very limited audience. It seemed to me, however, that maybe,just maybe, there was at least one person out there who could make use of my highly-specific information. But before jumping in to the xylophone project, let me take a moment to introduce my family.<\/p>\n Here’s we\u00a0are:<\/p>\n From left to right, that’s Jack, Rich, Lily and Lynette.<\/p>\n We don’t always dress up as cartoon superheros. Here’s a photo to prove it:<\/p>\n Oh yeah, why supermediocre.org?<\/p>\n One day, my daughter, Lily, and I were brainstorming name ideas; we were gravitating towards names that were quirky and sort of self-deprecating. The mashup “super mediocre” eventually came up. We liked that it was an oxymoron and sort of off-balance; it fit our family in some twisted way. \u00a0I checked if the domain\u00a0was available – it was (big shocker).<\/p>\n In the end, we thought the name supermediocre was, um…perfectly OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bear with us – blogging is entirely new to our family; we’re totally just groping around in the dark! Despite our inexperience, we are going to give this the old college try. So here goes… About Us I guess introductions are in order. My name is Rich Wickstrom, and this is a site that I’ve … Continue reading First post – and introductions…<\/span> <\/a><\/a>Our Site Name<\/h2>\n