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Happy New Year

December 31st, 2011 4 comments

OK, I am not likely up as this gets posted.   Delayed posting is a feature in WordPress.  So, while the confetti drops, the server will be doing my work for me. Read more…

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(47 x 75) ÷ 25 =

December 10th, 2011 2 comments

You got that one right?  141

The easy way was to simplify and end up with 47 x 3 = and few would need to take of their shoes or move their lips to get it right. Read more…

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The Bird is

November 25th, 2011 8 comments

Not all music was great.  That might include this potential Turkey Day bit of surf rock. Read more…

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Related?

October 12th, 2011 6 comments

Yesterday, I avoided the Hoyish wrath of Waffles.  [phew]  I got a new neighbor on the west.  They been working on the yard of a foreclosure that’s been vacant about a year.  The house needs a lot of work and has to be the neighborhood eyesore. So I was glad to see someone moving in. Read more…

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Downtown

September 17th, 2011 2 comments

As Petula Clark used to put it:

When you’re alone
And life is making you lonely,
You can always go downtown

Downtown for me was Hammond, Indiana.  It is famous as Hohman, Indiana in Gene Shepard’s A Christmas Story.  The main drag was Hohman Avenue — surprise — and from the tracks the downtown ran two blocks south.  There was a block or so on State Street too.  But, that was it.  Not a lot to write about but Shepard managed. Read more…

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Grey dogs

July 26th, 2011 No comments

and not Englishmen but the bonny Scots — close.  I am stretching with the color (colour); maybe Grey is the mad color.  I like to wander maybe even ramble. This one is for Bammer and his ilk — the single malt crowd.   I’m a bourbon man but I sucked down a fair amount of decent scotch. Read more…

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Intergalactic Towel Day

May 25th, 2011 2 comments

Yar.  Shiver me timbers.  Ooops!!!! Not talk like a pirate day. That’s Sept 19th.  My bad.   Today is Inter-state -national-galactic towel day. Read more…

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What I’m reading

May 4th, 2011 No comments

Well, there are always several books open around here.  I am a reader.  I have always been one.  By the end of third grade, I’d read through the entire juvenile section in the local branch and was walking further to get to the main library.  (Wasn’t I the special lad?  LOL) Read more…

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So, what is new?

May 2nd, 2011 No comments

OK, head in the sand and under a rock but I am aware that Obama got Osama — at least that’s the White House slant.  I won’t comment because I wasn’t there.   This guy was… Read more…

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Links for the day #972349

April 23rd, 2011 6 comments

If you managed to notice, I turned into a posting juggernaut yesterday.  It is my new program to take over blogdom. Screw thoughtful comment; go for quantity.   Today, I provide links.  Beat having to work at it. Read more…

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