In this neck of the Southern Ohio woods we had a big wind storm on Wednesday.
It blew my stepladder across the yard. A lawn chair went on walkabout, and another decided to hide in the bushes. The new fancy high-gain radio antenna provided by my broadband internet provider turned its back to the wind and [...]
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I have finally started being a little more optimistic lately.
Things at work are going better. Not a lot better, but some of the irritating things are better. We also have better support. With our New project manager we also got people assigned to the team in other slots that had been vacant since 2005 and [...]
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No post here for a while ’cause I been busy writing elsewhere. I finished off another new story and sent it out. I got a rejection of a flash story, tweaked it a bit and sent it on to another flash friendly magazine. I am also currently revising a story I started [...]
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Medical bills need a special level of attention. Not only don’t I trust the insurance company to do the right thing, but I also don’t trust the medical billing services that most of the local health providers use.
From the insurance company angle, I have to be alert to denials of coverage that shouldn’t have [...]
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70. Replace both couches
I guess you could say we are frugal. We purchased a couch when we lived in Chicagoland and were still using it yesterday, some 15 years later. The love seat we had was a hand-me-down (albeit a nice one) from a relative. The couch [...]
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60. Power wash back of house/return power washer
If there is a lesson to be learned by the readers of this blog, it is be cautious what you lend me. It may be a while before I return it.
I borrowed a power washer from a good friend over a year [...]
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I didn’t catch the entire exchange… so I am going to present it as if it were a joke, although I wonder if it wasn’t. You never can tell with some people.
Lady: So I went to that fast food place.
Pharmacist: Um-hmm.
Lady: The service was terrible and when the cashier finally [...]
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Ever had a brain freeze? You know that short duration pain you get in your head when you take a big mouthful of something very cold like ice cream? Well, I can get brain freeze without eating anything cold. I get brain freeze the hard way.
I have arthritis. I have had [...]
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Hello. I am a procrastinator. I sometimes can keep my head down and get things done, but over the last year I have really let a lot of things slip. I am going to rectify that.
I stumbled across an interesting meme here on the internet. It is called “101 Things to [...]
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Another road trip to Pittsburgh and back today. Derek wanted to spend some time with his nephew Owen. I was happy to oblige.
Chris came along again, and we had fun talking and listening to music. He has a Steppenwolf CD and the Credence Clearwater Revival 24 Carets three CD collection. [...]
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