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Blog Post of the Month
Some of you may have been wondering what that yoke is on my side bar?
This is Damien Mulley up to his tricks again.
Is there any limit to this bloke’s ideas? He is giving an award for Blog Post of the Month, every month.
I think it is a great id
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The Grand Tour
Read at least 5 books that fit somewhere within the Once Upon a Time II criteria. They might all be fantasy, or folklore, or fairy tales, or mythology…or your five books might be a combination from the four genres.
Book 3: The Grand Tour: Being a Revelation of Mat
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I Think I'm Going To Cat Man Do
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This Week in Elder News: 17 May 2008
In this regular weekend feature you will find links to news items from the preceding week related to elders and aging, along with whatever else catches my fancy that I think you might like to know. Suggestions are welcome with, however, no promises of publication.
A few weeks ago, I note
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On Sponsoring a Child in Need
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Caregiver Injuries: Avoid Them
My mother fell often. She out-weighed me, and she was very fragile, having had two hip replacements. Her knees needed to be replaced, as well, but she was too frail. I often had to call for help after a fall, until she went into a nursing home, as I couldn't safely get her up off the floor. Careg
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"It Might Be Wise to Invest in the Procrastination Economy."
Coffee, cigarettes, YouTube . . .
Blogging . . .
Slate's special issue on procrastination: "11 articles on all facets of the art of wasting time. (It was supposed to be 15 articles, but, you know ...)"
Procrastination addiction -- and twelve-step rehab.
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Milestone. [UPDATED]
The $100 tank of gas.
The Beast, the I-Van, has a truck-sized tank. It had about an eighth of a tank left and it sucked more than 26 gallons. I've never really calculated the mileage it gets because it would horrify me and there'd be nothing I could do about it anyway.<
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EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE KING
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Publicizing Publius
Berkman at 10 sponsored these essays with the Federalist Papers as their conceit, if not model. A couple of them are really impressive, bringing new thoughts forward and helping to clarify an understanding of principled governance. Then there are a few guys who just phoned it in.
Technor
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A Taxing Situation?
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There Are Cheaters in Blogonia
Signing up for Blog365 was a pretty easy decision once I realized I average two posts per day the first year of blogging.
I signed up for the megafeed to read what other daily bloggers were saying. The numbers are dwindling, but that’s OK. Life happens.
What’s not OK is that some of t
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Favorite products..what are yours?
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It’s official: You can share a story today
Are you sharing a family story today?
Today has been designated International Day for Sharing Life Stories and many communities around the world are holding special events to commemorate the occasion. Here in Central Iowa, I’ll be participating in tonight’s Two Rivers Story Spinne
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Just in Case you Slept Through GMA...
One week and counting! Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull!! Oh man!
This morning Good Morning America interviewed Spielberg/ Harrison and Lucas.. you can see interview from Good Morning America by clicking the link !
Meanwhile.. here's a few screen caps I did while I watched the i
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My Last Travel Hurrah?
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Regulars: You Invited to Participate in Pranking Noobs to Going Like Sixty.
I wrote a really lame post that has generated over 110 comments. It was a link to somebody elses post about stimulus checks and a link to the Turbo Tax website. Yeah, it was that exciting.
Normally I will get the number of comments equal to the Holy Trinity - about four. Father. Son. Holy.
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