tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39562825597504871682011-09-15T06:21:22.743-05:00I served as caregiver for my parents from Nov 1998 until Sep 21 2007. Dad had Alzheimer's and he and I frequently sat on the porch of his home. I am making my own porch now.flintysoonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13343169479240819918noreply@blogger.comBlogger4171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956282559750487168.post-5980081096976157972008-11-20T05:00:00.007-06:002009-03-27T22:14:04.629-05:00

UPDATE - My New Blog: lifeaftertheporch-----------------------------------------------------The End.My final post to this blog.I began posting to this blog on Monday, July 9, 2007. This is my 417th post according to Blogger.According to Sitemeter there have been more than 31,000 visitor sessions. That's rather amazing in itself.Today is the 10th anniversary of the day that I traveled from my

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Reading Pastor Stan's book made me think about the Biblical admonitions to renew my mind. Among others this verse is well known:And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.Romans 12:2 (NASB)Immediately I found myself drawn to the latter part of the verse. I

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ReThink Your Life: A Unique Diet to Renew Your Mind (Total Quality Life)by Stan TolerPastor Stan was my parents' pastor for many years. He was also ordained first in the same denomination that ordained my maternal grandfather. That denomination eventually merged into the Nazarene church.Pastor Stan brought me, my brother, and my son an autographed copy of his latest book the other day and I

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I was asked to deliver the invocation at a City of Moore Chamber of Commerce event last Friday evening.When we moved to Moore in 1951 it was a very small town. I don't really know how many people lived there. I think I remember being told there were about 1,100 people in 1951. In 1960 the population must have been around 6,000 because there was a slogan that was something like "6,000 in 60" I

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This is the new Chick-Fil-A as seen from the porch.When I first came to live with mom and dad in 1998 we could sit on this porch and look out these same windows and see a pond with trees surrounding it and extending both directions as far as we could see.When I was a child there was this huge Cottonwood tree about where the Chick-Fil-A is being built. Then the creek area was thick with trees and

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In Memory of Stef's Nonna, Angela Razzano Capassoand in appreciation ofStef's loyalty, love, and careand Stef's blogwhere she taught me about The Lion King.

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That's the well known phrase associated with 1 Corinthians 13:12 in the King James Version:For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.But I've been reading The Message which has the same verse:We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the

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This photo was in McAllister's Deli in Moore. I saw it the other day when I was in there getting a sandwich. So I took this image with my phone. It is behind glass. That's why you can see the reflections of people in the glass on top of the photo. I am one of those figures.Our first library was a bookmobile that came around about once a month I think. I happen to know that bookmobile began

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Under our contract with Chick-Fil-A we are obligated to provide a shared driveway between the site and the old house. So Friday the 7th the crew framed the perimeter and laid the steel reinforcing bar and then began pouring about 400 cubic yards of concrete really early on Saturday morning.Really early as in 5:00 a.m. early. Which is not actually that early for me. Since it was our driveway my

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I found a really great web site called The Resurgence Greek Project.The URL is http://www.zhubert.com/Zack Hubert is the author and web master of the site. He's another Physics guy apparently. It seems we are everywhere.This site represents an amazing amount of work but it is wonderfully useful and helpful if you have any interest in Biblical Greek.I studied Biblical Greek once along with a

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SimulacrumCNN called it a hologram but it is not a true hologram.The reporter was in Chicago and surrounded by 35 cameras. But the CNN viewer saw what appeared to be a live person standing in the studio with Wolf Blitzer.There is an interesting article at: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1980The article has an embedded Youtube video. I did not see this live when

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The other day I was visiting with my daughter about our respective Bible studies. She's been working in the Old Testament while I've been in the New. She had been reading about King Saul. She asked about the time that God sent an evil spirit to trouble Saul in 1 Samuel 16:14.My understanding of this is that this "evil spirit" is likely a mood rather than an either an angel or a demon.

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I've been thinking about when to stop posting to this blog.I've decided.Ten years ago this month I drove up to Oklahoma City from my apartment in the Dallas area. It was the Friday before Thanksgiving. That was Friday, November 20, 1998.My mother was experiencing some swelling in her legs. She had an appointment on the following Monday to have an echocardiogram which is pretty much an

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Except that the price tag does not read $1.98 for sure.And it is a halter. And he's a horse.He is funny sometimes.Maybe it should not remind me as much of Minnie as it does come to think of it.It has been 12 years since Minnie Pearl's death but I am pretty certain most everyone that reads my blog knows who she is.Minnie Pearl was her stage name of course. Her real name was Sarah Ophelia Colley

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I've been thinking about disappointment lately. Not because I've been disappointed about anything in particular but just that the idea of it has interested me. Partly I suppose because of my Bible reading and partly because of the election that will occur tomorrow.Everyone I suppose has been disappointed at some time or another. It occurs when things do not work out the way we expect. I've

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In Memory of Mary A. (Stauber) O’Brien, Betsy's Mom.Betsy was one of my earliest blog friends.Before I started blogging I had been following a couple of Alzheimer's forums. I read a lot and posted a little. But the forums became too upsetting for me. It seemed there were always petty, or not so petty as the case might be, arguments. There were some members who seemed to go out of their way to

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Friday, October 31, 2008.Mark began the job of removing the Arkansas Ledge Stone from the house. I took this picture when he removed the first piece.We are salvaging the stone so each piece has to be removed and stacked on a pallet.Later on I hope to incorporate this stone into other walls in other projects. I did not intend this to happen so abruptly or even so quickly. I thought I had more

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I started reading through the entire Bible again a few weeks ago.The version I chose to read was The Message: The Bible In Contemporary Language by Eugen H. Peterson.Peterson retired in 1991 from pastoring for 29 years. But then he served at Regent College, Vancouver, BC for the next 15. The Message was published in 2002.This is the first time I've read large sections of Scripture in The

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I think I must be about 1 or 2 in this photo.It was found during the process of cleaning out the house.So, apparently, I was an early horseman after all.Also, found Dad's old saddle which will come to live in the new house.The old house is a very sad place right now. The men are in there tearing stuff up and making piles of things.We've found uses for a number of things like some of the kitchen

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Just one week and we likely will know who will serve us as President of the United States for the next four years.The polls have Senator Obama ahead by several points according to what I read. The news media reports seem overwhelmingly to favor an Obama win from what I hear anyway. Nearly all pundits seem to think it will be an Obama victory.There does appear to be a substantial undecided vote

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We had a parade in Oklahoma City on Saturday evening the 25th.It is called Ghouls Gone Wild. There is a web site fittingly called ghoulsgonewildokc.com. This is apparently the 2nd year for the parade which is sponsored by a local newspaper.I found this image on a forum called OKCTALK. If you follow the link you can see more images and read what people said about the parade. This image was

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Or the interesting life of someone who is now helping with some horses.Well our sick horse stepped on something and jammed whatever it was up inside the soft part of his foot. Which foot you ask? Why, the very same foot that was previously hurt but had pretty much healed.So the veterinarian came out and examined the foot and wrapped it up in some bandages after applying some pine tar stuff to

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We had a wonderful time.I bought the tickets for the adult balcony the day before. The seats are pricey but they are spectacular! The seats are grouped in pairs and the shared arm rest can be moved to allow close seating if a couple is so inclined. There is a little table between and just in front of the two seats. On the arm rests on the left seat and the right seat there is a little red

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One of my first jobs was answering the telephone at my dad's company.The phones were like the one in the image to the left. I found this image on Old Telephones web site. There were 6 buttons of which one was for HOLD and the others were phone numbers. I still remember the main number. It was JA (Jackson) 4-8401. That was back when we had rather quaint prefix names rather than just numbers.

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The workers who are building the Chick-Fil-A keep finding buried things.The other day the big telephone cable was cut and several businesses lost telephone service. I was at Starbucks right after it was cut. They gave me my coffee since they couldn't use their computers. Really I didn't have anything to do with the cable being cut but last Saturday the manager complained about it and about a

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I was struck by James 5 in my Bible reading last week especially given the financial turmoil that is occurring all across the world right now. I quote from The Message Bible:1-3 And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You'll need buckets for the tears when the crash comes upon you. Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in

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Daddy Long Legs spider that is or at least that's what I've always heard them called.But she (probably) is not a spider. Another common name is Harvestmen. They are arachnids but not spiders.Imagine that.We were down feeding the little kitties (only 2 remain out of 5) the other evening and this wonderful creature was walking around in the same area. Their legs are so thin that you can barely

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Remember the milk is the task list program I am using on my new iPhone. It is also known as RTM.CORRECTION: the price was $299 not $399. Sorry.My phone is truly my personal digital assistant more than any other tool I use. It has my Bible for instance as well as my contacts and my email and my calendars and several other services that are important to me. One of those things is my "to do

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I've posted before about my cell phones.My last one was a Treo 650 of which I have owned 2 units. It has been a good tool. It is more than a cell phone of course as I used it for my e-mail, text messaging, calendar, contact manager, password keeper, mobile web browser and a few other things besides.Sometime last week though it developed a problem of rebooting itself repeatedly. If I used it

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The other day my daughter emailed a devotion piece she had read by a lady named Glynnis Whitwer. The title was Until the Whistle Blows and it appears in full on her web site.The subject of the devotion is prayer, specifically the verse where Jesus says we should pray and not give up - Luke 18:1.I liked her illustration a lot and it reminded me of my post the other day about Perseverance.She

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Twelve Ordinary Men by John MacArthurThe sub-title is "How the Master shaped His disciples for greatness, and what He wants to do with you!"I thought it was fitting to report on this title since I had just finished the Gospels in my daily Bible reading program.John MacArthur is the long time pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is a well known and well respected

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A while back I started reading through the Scriptures again. I am following a little guide my Sunday School teacher gave us. The schedule makes me read quite a bit each day. I don't really like that because it makes me feel I am hurrying and I often find interesting things that I think I should consider more thoroughly. But the schedule pulls me on and keeping the schedule has its own

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That was a bumper sticker reportedly seen in Silicon Valley following the stock market collapse of 2000.The "irrationally exuberant" part came from a speech by Alan Greenspan in 1996.I like exuberance. It is not something really that would be attributed to me by those who know me but I like it all the same.One definition I read was "joyously unrestrained." I like that even more. Another was "

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On Friday the stock market was really amazing.Nothing much "real" had changed overnight except investors' attitudes. Attitudes are really real alright. When I first noticed the first big sell off I thought to myself "this has all the characteristics of a panic." It was not past events or even the immediate present that was provoking such anxiety and fear in so many. At first I supposed it was

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We all make them every day.There's a saying that "hindsight is 20/20" that is usually stated after some choice has turned out not so well or it becomes apparent that another choice would have been much better. It means that if we had known everything we know now back when we made the choice we would have made another one -- a better one.Maybe that's true sometimes but I think it is not always

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Politics is a strange profession alright.But it is a profession just like others. There are plenty of strange ones, too. To be sure the degree of strangeness is logarithmically proportionate to the perspective of the viewer. I suppose that is another way of saying we are all strange, or individuals anyway.Just like any other profession the longer you do it the better you get at it or you

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I read this article the other day in The Wall Street Journal online version.It must be free because I don't have a subscription.The title is Paulson's Stature Takes a Beating Among Lawmakers.I guess it was the title that caught my attention and then the article itself was interesting enough to hold it.I was particularly interested in a portion of the article which I quote as follows including my

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Remember my post about monarchs?Well, I found another site that I thought was interesting and worthy of note:Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal ChangeOn that site you can find out a lot more about Monarchs than you probably want to know.The most recent news is that a cold front on the 2nd of October contributed to many more Monarchs traveling through my area.Friday

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Updated this post at 7:20 AMWe filed our final plat on Friday with the county. It is quite a process.Once the infrastructure work was completed the surveyor returned to prepare a final "as-built" survey. Before that the city ran a TV camera on wheels down the new sanitary sewer line just to make sure everything was as it was supposed to be. That's an interesting thing to watch done in its own

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Another blogger I read mentioned this the other day. She posted only a single photo on that Wednesday as her blog post for the day in honor of Wordless Wednesday she said and I quote not.So I had to look up Wordless Wednesday. Turns out to be a blog.It has a heck of a lot of words for something with wordless in the title. I "think" you're supposed to only comment with a single link. Also a "

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A friend asked me "What is regs?" I replied that I thought it meant regulations. But my friend explained that this "regs" was used in the context of phone text messaging by a teenager and it didn't seem to mean regulations.I said "Oh. In that case I will do a little Internet research."I turned to http://www.urbandictionary.com/ where I typed in "REGS" and clicked the search button.Uh oh. I

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This is a graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1929 through today.That big dip right at the beginning is the 1929 crash.I was thinking about how thinking in terms of shorter and longer terms changes my attitude about things.And I don't mean just the stock market either. Because when you view the DOW over 80 years it is pretty apparent that even the rather drastic losses of the last few

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My advisers told me that if the congress fails to implement an economic recovery plan that they thought the stock market could fall by as much as 1/3 or more of its current value. That means the Dow could fall to somewhere in the 7,000's. They thought other areas of the economy would be dramatically affected as uncertainty and lack of credit spread. They thought it would last maybe 5 years or

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This is me decked out in all my ranch finery. Except you can't see my New Balance hiking shoes. That thing in my hand is fly spray. I thought a spray might be easier. Judy thought we should get the wipe on kind. She was right.Besides everything else we had to have our horse's hooves trimmed.Who do you call? The farrier if you don't do it yourself. And believe me I don't.So we called a

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Nebraska lawmakers consider revising 'safe haven' lawsI thought this was a sad but interesting article and a very good example of unintended consequences.The idea behind the law was to give people who were about to abandon newborns an alternative to throwing them into a dumpster or some such.But the law was written for children as old as 19 even though no one ever expected it to be applied to

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That's what the man said who came to remove the gas meter.He was a little upset at first. He asked me if this was one of those "eminent domain" deals. I assured him it wasn't and told him my dad died a year ago and we were in the process of selling some of the land. He asked about the house and I told him it was going to be torn down. He said he always liked that house and it was a shame it

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Not really.But it does remind me of my childhood when I would get up early with Dad and we would together go out and do the chores with the cattle.I do find it interesting that the more time I spend the horses the more comfortable we all become with each other. I remember that with the cattle, too.My son and I were talking about it yesterday. He remembered the year that he lived with my mom and

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I could go on, too, with my list.Internet is not back yet. We are waiting on more help from AT&T. At least they are helping.Economy is getting sicker. I am irritated that there is so much ignorance about it and more irritated that congress is so slow. I am pretty impressed with Henry Paulson. It does remind me a lot of the early 80's here during the oil, real estate, and banking busts.

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Of course I had to lose it first.We've agreed to sell the property just north of the house to Chick-Fil-A but only after we put in basic utilities. That included a rather deep and large trench to contain the storm sewer line. Its path was right across both the telephone and cable lines.We called the cable company and told them we were likely going to cut the cable. The customer service

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I've been thinking for a while about what I would post today because it has been one year since my dad died. I have experienced some mild anxiety in anticipation, or should I say dread, of this day. I suppose it was both anticipation and dread actually. But now that the day has arrived the anxiety has departed.How am I after the passing of these 365 days? The word that comes to mind most

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In Memory of Russand in honor of Nancy and Bobwho Done Good!-----

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For millions of people this week has already seen its share of devastating events.There have been so many events it is hard to remember them.  But it was just this past Monday that Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.  It is the largest bankruptcy ever.  The company reported $613 Billion in debt and $639 Billion in total assets.  This dwarfs the previous record set by

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We headed for the Oklahoma State Fair on Sunday afternoon.Of course it has been raining so parking was a bit of a problem but only a bit.   It always rains at fair time.It was actually a little cool in the wind on Sunday early but the sun warmed things up a lot by the time we got out on the Midway.  It is much as I remember it from my youth except it is bigger.  In fact everything is bigger

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In Memory of Helen Delucas.And in recognition of her friend and mine, Lori Kenney,whose dedication and serviceinspires me still.Blessings and prayers Lori.-----------------

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There are so many ways we lose innocence as we move from child to adult.Innocence.  We, that is those of us who are not, know what it means.  It means having no knowledge of evil.  Even those who do not believe in evil recognize innocence.I had several reminders last week of innocence and the fact that we lose it.  I didn't like the reminders.The first incident had to do with a grandson's

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Hmmm.On September 4, 2008 I posted Republican Convention 08 - Tuesday and Sitemeter recorded the astonishing number of 337 visitors. On September 2, 2008 it reported I had 291 visitors and I posted Hurricanes Gustav and Katrina.Previously my posts dealing with snakes and spiders garnered the most visitors but by half or less than these recent entries.My conclusion is that a lot of visitors were

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We planned to see a movie last Friday.  And we planned to see it at the new, spectacular Warren Theater in our town of Moore, Oklahoma.    But beyond that we hadn't planned much.So it was just before 4 pm when we arrived at the Warren after we finished our other errands.There are 16 screens so there were 16 movies and there were a couple starting near our time.  That's pretty much how we choose

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These are renderings of the City of Moore's new Fire Station 1. A few years before my dad's death but well after my mother's I received a phone call from the Assistant City Manager requesting a meeting.He and the Fire Chief came together for the meeting and we three as well as my dad sat in the living room of dad's home.The men from the City explained that the City needed to build a new fire

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This image shows the boring machine that is being used to bury a new sanitary sewer beneath the road in front of the house.It is amazing to me that this can be done.  The contractor is actually boring and placing a fairly large (to me anyway) line nearly 200' and it is pretty deep.  I think it is about 10' or 12' deep on the house end and ends up nearly 20' deep on the other.They delivered the

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Seven years have passed.Last year I wrote about what that day was like for me and mom and dad.  The memory of the day is no less vivid for me now than it was a year ago or even the day itself.   I think the memory that will outlast all others will be the one of walking outside and experiencing the silence and the absolute emptiness of the skies.In 2001 on September 11th I did not know that my

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My daughter is cleaning out my parents' home for us. In the process she is finding some interesting things, at least to me.One such example is a World War II Ration Book. I do not recall ever seeing this before.There were four series of ration books issued. Book Four it appears was issued in 1943.The book originally contained red, green, and blue stamps in addition to some spares and tokens.

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I watched an interview of Sarah Palin's closest (according to interview) friends  on Monday morning on ABC's GMA.  GMA means Good Morning America just in case there are others out there who didn't know. I didn't but I don't watch much over-air TV. I am relegated to that fate now when I exercise because of the absence of cable and satellite. I had forgotten how much I enjoy having cable or

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I suppose more properly my history with dogs maybe.We (my birth family that is) always had dogs around.  One, the first one, was a gift.  All the others were castaways that city folk dropped off at our corner along with their trash when we were still in the country.Once we found enough information from the trash to give it to the sheriff's office.  I don't know if anything was done or not.  The

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Each day, usually in the morning, I get online. I open my own blog and check to see if any of my blogger friends have new entries. If so, I click and read. I am not commenting so much anymore but I am still reading.   I'm not sure why I am not commenting so much as I once did.  In a way I feel like I've said or written about everything there is to say.   And commenting seems harder to me than

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I needed a battery and an AC adapter for a Dell laptop.  So I checked Dell naturally.  The battery was $300 and the adapter was another $70.  On top of that there was shipping and sales tax of course.  That seemed too high to me plus the last time I ordered a battery from Dell there was a big delay.  A laptop without a decent battery is really, really annoying.I decided to check Ebay.I've used

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The authors of our constitution did an interesting thing in creating the executive branch of our government.A number of democracies have systems where a party or coalition of parties gains a majority and then is able to run the government.  The leader of the party or a leader chosen by the coalition is the executive in charge.  If the party or coalition loses majority support the entire

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I really had no intention of watching the Tuesday evening republican convention.At some point though I found myself watching a man named Tommy Espinoza delivering a speech in support of John McCain. He said "Good evening, my name is Tom Espinoza ... I'm CATHOLIC ... HISPANIC ... and a DEMOCRAT ... and I'm proud to call John McCain my friend." That caught my attention. He went on to talk

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Cornbread recently posted about his first computer. That made me think about my own computing experience and I was inspired to blog about the ones I've programmed and owned.First "computer" I programmed was an HP 9100B with printer. In fact it is the first computer I actually saw and touched.The first program I wrote was a least mean squares program that received data points from an experiment

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I am starting this post early in the morning on Monday, September 1, 2008.I was remembering this morning how awful it was when Hurricane Kristina devastated New Orleans. And I was hoping and praying that the City of New Orleans would be spared that same level of destruction from this year's Hurricane Gustav.The news is reporting that Hurricane Gustav is somewhat diminished. But I remember

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Friday night at 8:38 pm. I know the precise time because my cell phone keeps track of such stuff. That's when it rang or whatever you call it now when the cell phone has an incoming call. Ring seems a little wrong because mine does not ring. I nearly ignored the call because it did not report the caller name. But finally I answered.It was a lady from the alarm company monitoring service.

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Photo by Alan Light - from the Wiki article.Okay. I admit it. I did not watch the convention coverage on Wednesday evening, August 27, 2008. Further I admit to not watching any of the convention coverage. Oh, I watched bits and pieces here and there but I neither saw nor heard anything that held my attention.Instead, on Wednesday at least, I watched a bio program about Paul Reubens, somewhat

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On June 5, 2008 I predicted who the presidential candidates would choose for their running mates. I cleverly chose the title Vice President Predictions.I wrote:Republican - going way out on a limb here - Joe Lieberman. On August 29, 2008 I received the following news alert:Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin is John McCain's choice of running mate.So I am now officially 100% wrong in my predictions.Who

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Senator Joe Biden, as most everyone knows by now, commutes by train from Wilmington, DE to Washington, DC.I thought it was interesting and decided to research it a bit.Yahoo Maps reports that the distance from Wilmington, DE to Washington, DC is 113 miles and should take slightly more than 2 hours to drive. At say 15 miles per gallon that would be about 7.5 gallons of gasoline or about $30 for

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Used my new exercise room for the first time on Saturday, August 23rd. Haven't missed a day since either.That's the infrared sauna to the far left. We placed it inside one of the closets. Fits nicely there. We spend about an hour all together in there. First time is at 120 then 130 and finally 140. Really feels good.Closest to it is my favorite machine, the elliptical. When I first got it

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Shopping for stuff for the new house sometimes leads to interesting, new information.We are using a lot of ceiling fans. We like them. So we've been looking at a lot of ceiling fans. So we stumbled across this company named "Big Ass Fans." You probably think I'm making this up but just click the name borrowed from the web site and you'll find them.They have fans from 6' to 24' diameter. They

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Another interesting article touching on magnetism, albeit the non-human kind:Deer, cattle have true animal magnetism: studyCHICAGO (Reuters) - Grazing cattle and sleeping deer tend to align their bodies along the North-South axis of the Earth's magnetic field, European researchers said on Monday, giving new meaning to the phrase animal magnetism. Herdsmen and hunters have long known that

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I read the following article on Yahoo News the other day:Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power systemThu Aug 21, 5:31 PM ETSAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy

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On June 5, 2008 I predicted who the presidential candidates would choose for their running mates. I cleverly chose the title Vice President Predictions.I wrote:I think there is a good chance that Bill Richardson will be the Democrat candidate.On Saturday, August 23, 2008, Senator Obama chose Senator Joe Biden to be his running mate.So I was wrong - way wrong.I think Senator Biden looks

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I walked outside just in time to see a hummingbird leave the feeder. He left because of me of course.So I thought maybe if I just waited very, very still that he might return to the feeder. I already had my camera in hand.It was probably under five minutes when I saw him approach the feeder.I wondered if I could get any kind of decent image. The light was terrible as I was in the shadow of a

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Every August I observe the glorious Monarchs on their way south to Mexico.My first sighting this year was August 21st. It is 11 months since my dad's death on this date. I was with my son and my brother this morning and we briefly remembered the event of his passing.It was later when I had returned home that I saw this beauty. And I recalled again what day it was and I thought it was entirely

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On August 16, 2008 at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA, there was an event hosted by Pastor Rick Warren wherein he interviewed presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.I found text copies of transcripts here as well as the Certified Final Transcript in PDF (it is 87 pages, 195 Kb).The second question asked Senator Obama was "What would be, looking back over your life --

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The Lake House by James PattersonThis is a sequel to a previous Patterson book I just finished and mentioned in this post. I debated quite a bit with myself before I ordered this title. Because on the Amazon site more than half of the reader reviews were 1 star. That's pretty bad for a James Patterson effort. So it gave me pause.Fortunately for me I decided to ignore the negatives and order

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I was assigned the task of picking up my step-daughter and then going grocery hunting (I mean shopping) for my mother-in-law.I thought I'd get a jump on things so I met my step-daughter and picked up the list while she was getting her hair coiffed thanks to her mommy.Mother-in-law is a brand-conscious shopper and I knew that so I tried to be rather careful. I even called her dear daughter for

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So the other night we were watching the Olympics on TV, kind of. I mean the TV was on and tuned to the channel showing the Olympics, and we were all in the room at the same time. Is this actually watching TV though?Anyway, the men's 100 meter event was being televised at the time. I think I've seen it since so I have no idea when it actually happened. So someone asked me what the speed would

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I didn't have my camera and I was preoccupied thinking about other things than taking pictures of the snake. And that was even before I saw the snake. I was really preoccupied afterwards.I chose this image from Google image search because when I saw the snake it was up high on the steel wall of the oat bin. It is from the website, Screaminghawk(© Photo(s) by Tim Vechter, http://www.westol.com/

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It seems to me that there is an increasing trend towards separation in our society over any number of things.I think the most common are politics and religion. Some would argue race but it seems to me that race is lower down. Some might argue income or wealth but those also seem further down the ladder to me as well.The expansion of the Internet has made it harder to know someone's race or

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Intelligence quotient is also known as IQ.Something made me wonder about the distribution of IQ scores so I did some Internet research.Actually Internet research is pretty good and it is very fast. There's an old saying I remember that nearly everything involves quality, time, and cost. You can get good stuff cheaply but not quickly. You can get good stuff quickly but not cheaply. And so on.

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On of my favorite birds and we seem to have many.Which is surprising since they lay their eggs on theground. If you (or anything else) approach the nest theyact like their wings are hurt or something and run offtrying to get you to follow them away from the nest.Their call is exactly like "kill deer" and that's why theyhave that name I suppose.(Wiki supplied the image for me - easier that way)

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I'm writing now at 10:00 pm on Monday, Aug 11th.The early morning hours of August 12th is supposed to be the peak viewing for the Perseid meteor shower this year.It's been underway since July 17 and will end about August 24.I checked on the evening of the 11th and there was nothing to be seen except clouds and we still have at least a 20% chance of rain overnight. We had 3.5" of rain here last

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Under Orders by Dick FrancisI began reading Dick Francis several years ago. His wife, Mary, died in 2000 and I am pretty sure it was well afterwards when I began reading his novels. He was recommended to me as someone who was interesting but also did not resort to the overuse of violence, sex, and profanity. I did not read him in any particular order but I did enjoy his books very much.Mary

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Which is more important to you?Some people answer that question with "doctrine" although they don't usually answer the question verbally but with action. Well to be fair the question isn't usually asked in that way either. What happens is some situation occurs and it becomes apparent to everyone you know that you hold a particular view and suddenly some people simply don't have anything to do

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I have been blessed with wonderful friends.There is one in particular though that is so very special.This friend is a girl. She thinks I am cute she says. I find it hard to believe as I have observed myself in more than one mirror and on more than one occasion and cute seems to me a bit of a stretch for what I observe. She isn't being charitable though. She actually means it. And it makes me

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You know I've been watching the horses lately when it has been so hot.I stand in the shade to watch them, especially when it is above 100. In fact, I also wear my baseball cap.But you know the horses just graze away out there in the blazing sun. Sometimes they stop grazing and they stand absolutely still and have one hoof kind of relaxed.Did you know that horses have 205 bones and humans have

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