tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90117952012-01-22T20:35:11.037-06:00A Blog That Started Off as a lark but got intertwined with life. Sometimes fun, sometimes not.Ms. Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06093843256246047245noreply@blogger.comBlogger6051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9011795.post-9907225464351338732011-07-09T14:23:00.002-05:002011-07-09T14:24:14.066-05:00

Was just looking at the photo of Dad in the next post. The one on his 93rd birthday. He sure has gotten so much more frail this year.

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I can't believe it was only six years ago that I started this blog. So much has happened in that six years. Lost a step-mom, became a widow, traveled, got a promotion, retired, etc. Not having a daily, sit-at-a-computer-on-my-desk kind of routine has made keeping current with a blog harder. Nonetheless, I think I'll always keep it because it serves as a great journal for me. And it was certainly

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Dropped my cell phone and received the replacement one today. When I originally got the phone, they set up an email account for it. I just used the email and never logged into the account ... so now I have no idea what the password is and that's where all my contact info is backed up. Looks like I may be starting over. Maybe not a bad thing every once in a while?

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Aren't you surprised to be seeing a blog post by ME?Just a fluke that I decided to log in. Been so long I had to look up my hints since I couldn't remember the exact password. Just checked out some blogs that I had listed as those I used to follow. I had them bookmarked on my computer in my former life but haven't seen them lately. One blog is still dead. Hate to see it. I was so invested in this

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Came across this site the other day. Came back to it today now that I've got a minute to really look at it.There is a weekly Friday giveaway and today's includes posting their button on your website.Check it out. Directs you to many very creative and crafty bloggers.

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Dad told us the other day that the first drive-in bank in Texas was in Marshall.Today, he helped me date a photograph from the museum. A street scene. He said most the cars looked like 1924 models but one had a spare tire on the back which would make it at least 1925. Before then if you had a flat you had to take it off and fix it on the spot. You carried a Monkey Grip Tire Repair Kit with you.

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Dad was telling me yesterday that his brother, Dean, had demusked a polecat when he was a kid and had this polecat as a pet. Dean dug a hole over to the side in the floor of the hearth which was clay and this polecat would curl up in this hole during the hot of the day. I was really surprised that his folks would've allowed a pet indoors. Dad said he'd already left home when this happened. He

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Made a pact with a friend to take a little four-day break from Facebook just to see how much of a time-suck it really is. The results? Facebook didn't miss me.So on with blogging. Starting out with a few photos from when I was playing with the new phone. Had to try out all those photo settings that I'll never use again. --A train coming by the musuem.The tracks by the museum.Inside the

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So I really haven't posted much since the last of last year. Since then I've settled into retirement and my new part-time job. Had to decide on a new phone since my old carrier didn't work well here and my old phone really had to be replaced. I ended up with a Droid, a smart phone. I like the "smart" but the "phone" part is lacking. Having the internet at hand at all times is nice. A little too

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Just getting logged in to make a post took forever. I haven't posted in a while and was not remembering my password. The internet connection is slow, etc.I would love to be posting some photos from my phone but haven't gotten that figured out yet. Technology is making it hard on me today folks. At least I can log in again. And that's all I've got for today.

Ms. Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06093843256246047245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9011795.post-10379760317037225902009-12-25T15:26:00.003-06:002009-12-25T15:34:59.904-06:00

Has it been two months since I blogged? Been an eventful two months. Lots of catching up to do. Haven't had regular internet access so blogging hasn't at the top of my list when I got a chance to be online. Wow, this is kind of hard to get started again. Just checking in.And Merry Christmas!

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Last weekend, I watched the movie, Crank, as a refresher for renting & watching Crank 2: High Voltage. My friend, Stewart, joked that it appeared to be created by a 14 yr old boy with ADD. I guess that describes it pretty well. I must admit I had to avert my eyes a couple of times during Crank 2. A bit intense. But all in all, a pretty crazy ride that the fourteen-yr-old-boy in me seemed to enjoy

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Just noticed that it's coming up on my fifth anniversary of blogging. Sheese, a lot has changed in those five years. One being the fact that I'm retiring in just a few days. I've heard you're busier after retiring than you ever were working a job. I hope there's some kind of sane balance there. I would like to have time to blog more. I know I get some occasional readers, but to tell the truth,

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My fellow Guiding Light watcher, Barrie, gave me a ballpoint pen with this lighthouse on the clip. After the demise of the pen, the little lighthouse found a home on the corner of my computer monitor. I've pried it off and reglued it to each new one for more than ten years now.In just a few minutes, I'm going to pry it off again and put it away for safekeeping until I decide on it's new home. The

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Another fun date day!

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I never dreamed I would retire this early, but at a fairly young age I got a job on a college campus, stayed with it and am now eligible to retire. The situation requires that I continue to work at least part-time for a while. But once I found out I was eligible, so many things came into play that I couldn't not go for it.I accidentally said to a co-worker friend the other day, "when I graduate .

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Ended up having to work at least a few hours each week-day of my vacation. Couldn't be helped with some critical deadlines looming. But the best part was that Mary Lynn came to visit. We covered a lot of miles to go shopping and to drive around looking at yards and landscaping. Oh yeah, and we ate out a lot. Lots of great meals!Thursday, we combined a trip to Houston that I had to make for work

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I just learned I'm a winner of a Fightin' Mad Mary give-away! I've won a sample pack of ZizZazz vitamin and energy powder mix.I found Fightin' Mad Mary when I searched for folks on Twitter from my alma mater. I've been following her tweets & blog for a while now and really do enjoy getting to see a slice of Hollywood through her eyes. She's a double Emmy nominee for her work in editing reality

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Decided a quiet Sunday afternoon was a good time to come into town to work on moving to my recently assigned office at the other end of the building. To set a theme of Old to New, I met Jesse at the landmark Texan Cafe (established 1936) for lunch and then we went out to the BRAND NEW TARGET! Yep, we're moving up in the world around here!Got a lot moved from old to new office but still have a

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Did a little photoshopping this afternoon (although I actually use Paint Shop Pro instead) -- click for a closer view.

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Just got back from a work conference in Boston. The weather was great. Nice and cool! Got lots of good information and still had time to see some sites.Our group at the airport.Mike Jones sighting at the airport.Boston from the plane.Tradition.Columbus Park.Tall ship week.Lobby of hotel.View from my room. Boo!Attending sessions. We stayed at the conference hotel.Flag in the JFK Presidential

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Lots of photos of Bauer BBQ to share but no time to get them up now. Here's the 2009 group. It was our tenth Bauer BBQ.

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Sometimes it's just really hard to sit down and make a post. I want to but the urge often comes when I'm not at the computer. Or I can't get to it because I have so many other things to do. I think I'm going to be pretty busy in the next few. There's lots coming up and work is plenty stressful. So I think I'll take a formal blog break for a month or so. If something exciting happens that just has

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... or so that was the date imprinted on the slide.Dad's brother, Uncle Tuney, and Aunt Edna.Mom's oldest sister, my Aunt Marie.Martha, Uncle Glenn, me.I used to stay with my cousin, Rita, a lot. They lived next door to Aunt Marie and Uncle Glenn. We always played outside except when it rained. When it rained we played on the screened-in front porch at Aunt Marie's and Uncle Glenn's. They had an

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My former boss who I worked for about 20 years is retiring. I've been hunting down old co-workers and friends to let them know about her reception. It's been pretty interesting. There are only a couple that I really tried to find that I just can't. The internet is an amazing thing. Most were just to let them know about the reception or to let them know they could write a note or something for the

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-Someone in my work-o-sphere announced their retirement today. -The SH-uttle is canceled. -I'll soon be working on a project with a co-worker who I've worked with before. Should turn out to be a good thing. We work well togther.-What else? Oh when I walked into work this morning, there was a car without appropriate sticker parked in the handicapped spot. Happens a lot when people want to "just

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Undeniably would be approaching middle-age but as it is ... forever 49!

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Here's a LINK to news and information about the Sun-Earth environment.

Ms. Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06093843256246047245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9011795.post-19151106959387567292009-04-17T07:55:00.000-05:002009-04-17T13:10:12.835-05:00

Just checked my stats and confirmed I'm pretty much talking to myself. Thanks to the two of you who visit regularly. It's nice that you do. Thanks.Even though there's not much of an audience, I still wish I could fancy up my blog a little and blog more. Keep thinking I'm going to reach that point at work where I'll have the free time to do that. It's not too far away. I think. I hope.

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Been a while. I was off last Friday and used the laptop at home to write up some entries ... of course, forgot the flash drive so not able to put them up. Maybe I'll remember it tomorrow. I came across a blog, Liberty Post, today and saw an entry and link to this Time photo gallery that shows families throughout the world posed with their week's worth of groceries. Hope the link works for you.

Ms. Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06093843256246047245noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9011795.post-466962519957947262009-04-04T18:27:00.002-05:002009-04-04T18:27:00.349-05:00

It's one of those mysteries that was bound to turn up in the big Scanning Project. We don't know who they are but it's a pretty cool photo, yes?Click photo for a closer look.

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I asked Dad if I was a chunky baby or a fluffy baby. He said quietly, "Chunky." (click on photo for grins)

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Go to GenderAnalyzer, enter a website and let it answer the question, Man or woman - who is writing that blog?

Ms. Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06093843256246047245noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9011795.post-8441038362919434842009-03-19T18:13:00.000-05:002009-03-19T18:13:00.235-05:00

Me and my mom with my cocker spaniel, Buttons. I'm wondering why there were two tricycles. Hmmm.

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I've got the NASA internet tv going in the corner of my screen so I can watch the space walk while I lunch/work. Was thinking of when man stepped on the moon. I was staying with my cousins and we got really excited. We screamed and hollered and jumped on the couches celebrating the first step. We were some excited little kids. hehe.

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Yours truly.

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Adorable little me.

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... to say I wish I had more time to blog. I'd really like to update my blog template and reorganize it and make more frequent posts and build up my reader base and blah blah blah. But no extra time right now.I've been working on a new template in my mind tho.Okay ... gotta run!

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...a calendar holiday when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Square Root Day occurs only nine times in a century. The last one occurred on February 2, 2004, and the next will occur in seven years on April 4, 2016. That's your calendar tidbit for the day!

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I started scanning the big box of negatives -- those old big medium format ones -- that I snagged from my folks house before it sold. Always been curious to see if there are some special gems in there that did not have companion prints in the family photo albums.Here's one of my favorites so far of my mom riding a bicycle. A bicycle? I never saw her ride one, never pictured her riding one, and I

Ms. Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06093843256246047245noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9011795.post-8038241097946761042009-02-26T07:09:00.000-06:002009-02-26T11:05:29.374-06:00

Never thought in a zillion years that I'd jump on the Twitter bandwagon, but I'm a tweetin' fool now. Well, maybe not that zealous but attempting at least a daily tweet.It all started because I need to know about it for work. I know businesses use it and needed to find out how we might use it. So I started out with a personal account just to check it out. Let me tell you, all I could think was ..

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At precisely 5:31:30 p.m. Central time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" used by Unix computers will display all ten decimal digits in sequence. Not that I'm a Unix user, but I love those fun dates and times. Those geeky folks will be partying all over the world in celebration.

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Qubo.This is what being ready for digital in rural East Texas looks like. See? I'm getting a digital station as illustrated above. Every once in a while some random hokey digital station will scan in and offer a crystal clear view of some infomercial but not too reliably.Okay, I'm still working on it and might get a new antenna and try that but looks like we may get a few months reprieve on this

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Went to see Barrie and her family last weekend. Barrie and I had a chance to go look at model homes (sans kids). I'm thinking we might have seen maybe ten? It's fun to see how they are decorated and tsk-tsk at how hard it'd be keep all that clean and shake our head at how much these people will have to pay in taxes and will still be close enough to the next $400,000 house that neighbors could

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This photo was from back in January. I was in the backseat and Dad was in the front of Martha's truck. We'd been to a funeral that was one of the most uplifting services of any kind that I'd been to in a long long time. Quite remarkable. It was for the father-in-law of my sister's sister-in-law. We'd been to this sister-in-law's house last Thanksgiving and had just seen the gentleman then. By

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Annie and I went to lunch the other day. Here was dessert. Green-tea ice cream. The taste was so subtle and delicious.

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Santa has made a delivery. See it in the foreground?Star Wars Leggos. Oh yeah!I brought them goofy glasses and they were very good sports about the photo op.

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Lila was in Texas for a visit and came by work with Jordan to say hello. She's working on her news anchor career and signs autographs in another state for now but wants to work her way back home. Jordan has joined us in higher ed right back where he started ... but has to wear a tie everday. They're both doing great!Lila, me, and Jordan.

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A few more photos from last December.Already decorated.That's her dad performing the ceremony.Ta-dah!Caroline, KimG, Michelle and me.

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This was from early Dec 2008. Hey! I'm trying to catch up with posting my photos. JoanE came to visit. Chosen family! It was great catching up and seeing photos of the grandkids and all.Me and JoanE.

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Took a while to get these posted, huh? I'd been up to visit Barrie and her family. Obivously we'd taken a little road trip somewhere and the kids crashed on the way back.A photo of the kids being quiet. :)These sunglasses crack me up.A mean game of tic-tac-toe going on here!

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I've heard the term metrics about five times in the last four days as in key performance indicators. Didn't realize they'd given a name to "the numbers show ...."

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I just found out that Cottage Living and House & Garden magazines are no more. I love love love magazines and home magazines are my favorite. Dang, I just sent in a subscription not long ago for Cottage Living. I suppose they will offer me a subscription to Southern Living or maybe Coastal Living. Which coincidentally, I just mailed off a subscription to on Saturday. I haven't taken it in a long

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I found these that are pretty great, too, HERE. The scarey thing is that this GeoEye 1 satellite can discern objects on the ground as small as 16 inches in size, which represents an object about the size of home plate on a baseball diamond. I guess that's how they spotted those cows in my cousin's pasture?Click on photo for larger version. Full screen is best.Click on photo for larger version.

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I hope you can see, load, whatever -- this panoramic shot of the inauguration. It is the best shot of the event I've come across.Look at it full screen, and if you've got the time, let it do it's slow crawl pan. It's fun to take the time to look at all the details. And then after that, fun to do the click/drag thing to look all the way up to the top of the sky, and then to the floor beneath the

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I've never laughed out loud reading a medical journal before, maybe a chuckle here or there, but this really caught me off-guard. I was reading an article in The Journal of Family Practice which was a PURL (Priority Update from Research Literature). The article, "Saline irrigation spells relief for sinusitis sufferers," debated the merits of recommending nasal irrigation for rhinosinusitis. The

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I just ran across this photo of Gene from Christmas 2003. A classic with his Christmas bow boutonniere on a pink bike with that stogie. That's Uncle Dammit!Gene, Christmas 2003.Thought I'd throw in this one of the kids because I love how it just looks fun! They're having so much fun on the new trampoline in their Christmas finery. Maybe I'll see if I can find some recent photos of these kids to

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Siblings have thier own brand of torture and I never forgot this one ... when I was just a little thing, my sister eight years my elder called me a "moron." I asked her what it meant. She told me to go look it up. But when I asked her how to spell it so I could look it up in the dictionary, she refused. The big meanie! Funny how I remember this but she has no recollection of it at all. Grin.

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This is my Aunt Edna at the same birthday party in November 2007.

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I was going through my old posts and saw a lot of drafts saved. First drafts, ideas, photos, etc. that never got published to my blog for whatever reason. Sometimes they eventually were but the draft just never was deleted. I just decided that when I don't have anything currently blogworthy, you're going to see those drafts dusted off and published here. For starters, here's a photo of my sister,

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Came across this little illustration today. I wonder how much he's going to age, too. Mainly wanted to put this on my blog so I can come back and look at it. Wow, I'm assuming I'll be doing this blog a really long time! (Photo credit on photo)

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In an effort to blog more often, thought I'd try the keep 'em short and keep 'em coming tactic.Came down with a bad cold right after Christmas. On the mend. Today was first day back to work, and it was kind of like a Monday. Got some solar powered yard lights for Christmas, the kind you stake in the ground. Here's an effort at not working so much -- I'm only working 45 min over today! I'm headed

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Won't be long now and we'll be ringing in 2009. To be true to my noncommital nature, I don't have any New Year Resolutions but rather some general goals. One of the main ones is to take my vacation time that I've accrued this year. The stressed economy may not shower me with vacation bucks, but I'll sit at home and watch daytime tv and read magazines for a day here and there rather than lose the

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Dad at Thanksgiving.Me and Kim the day after Thanksgiving.

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I don't think I've even mentioned that I moved to a different office. Work has been crazy busy. This new office, in it's quieter location, was intended to enable me to concentrate and get more work done. I think it's working! I've been working like crazy the past few days. Still not caught up but since I was so far behind, I am trying to cut myself some slack. As Dad reminded me yesterday, "You

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Paid off another credit card! Two to go!

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And wouldn't you know it, my computer died on me today. I borrowed one to make sure I posted today to mark this occasion. Will have to be more newsy at a later date... and photos ... I've got photos! New camera, you know!My first entry was four years ago today and was about P B & J Sandwiches. Hmmm.

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Wasn't easy to find that one little sign blocked by the cars, but did find it and did vote and was pleased to find a paper ballot in my hands. I'm just not trusting what I hear about the electronic ballots.They handed me my ballot and I found myself sitting down behind my little cardboard table-top booth and clasping my hands in a fervent prayer - that I make a wise choice - that whoever ends up

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Don't currently have internet access at home and work has been kicking my butt so no posting lately. Busy time of year and all.Decided to just stop and make a post. A lot happened in the almost month since I posted although much of it not noteworthy.Came home the next day after the last post and there was no damage to my house; Einstein was really glad to get home. He's never traveled before. Sat

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Well, I'm in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and doing fine. Although I'm very stressed since the eye of the storm is passing over my house right this minute. We are so far inland, I don't know of many people from my area that left. I just got too nervous and had to take friends up on their offer of a place to stay. So grabbed the cat and took off on Friday afternoon. Have heard from some of my

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Horror of horrors! My camera broke! I squeezed out a few last photos which still sit on the memory card. The camera did hold up well for me as rough as I was on it. It's got dents and stories to tell!I'm shopping for a new one. I keep borrowing ... "Hey, have you got your camera?" (See Sept 3, 5 and 8 ... not my camera!)It's been a long time that I haven't had a regular full-sized camera in my

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How exciting to see someone at my office door, turn to look and see Andres and Monica standing there! What a great surprise! Sure miss them!Jesse, me, Andres, Monica.

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Had to take the car in to get something checked. And of course had to go by the shoe store that had sent me generous coupons for my birthday. Was compelled to go in and at least look, right? Was able to pick up a wedding gift (not at the shoe store) and a few other things before heading back to the country from the city. Had to rush home and take care of some stuff.Then I managed to get in some

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A fantastic visit today from Kasey and Blake. I woke up at 4 a.m. this morning because I was so excited they were coming to visit! I really miss all you guys in that "SAMpler" group! (Is SAMpler and group redundant here?)Blake, Kasey and me displaying a fine SAMpler of gifts. (Wii Pez dispenser for Blake; and for me a DVD of one of my two favorite movies - Blake is the only other person who's

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Had a good birthday. Vicki made me this three-layer chocolate cake. I think she said the cake part had 3.5 oz of semi-sweet chocolate and a cup and half of cocoa. The icing had ONE POUND of chocolate. I had a big piece for breakfast with a good cup of strong black coffee. Good start to the day.Vicki said this cake "had it's lean on." (Me and Vicki.)After work, went to the pizza place with

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I was taught to get a good job and stick with it. So that's what I did. That's me, bottom right. The loyal and devoted employee. (From Aug 28)

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My family evacuated before the hurricane. And I made a new friend by the name of Stormy at our destination.

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It's that busy time of year!I did go visit dad and sister and neice last Sunday. Good visit.Back to work work work!

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In a recent blog entry, no narcissus talks about getting a scooter. This took me back to the first time a scooter registered in my memory. It was Don and Prudence (Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette) on a red Vespa in that 1962 classic Rome Adventure. I can't imagine going to the movies when I was that young to see this movie when it was new. And if I saw it when it made it to tv several years

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All you dial-up fans, go get a cup of coffee and come back later.Nice Grassy Banks.Judy.Hey.Olympic Floaters, JudyA and T.J.The Judys.Yours Truly.

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Went to San Marcos last weekend. Went to the outlet malls (tax free weekend on clothes) and to Blue Hole (natural spring fed swimming hole) in Wimberly. Best part of the weekend was visiting with friends. Will try to put up some photos later.

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Wanted to post yesterday but access was unavailable. Back today but what was it I was going to blog about? Lost that gravy-train of thought.But I can tell you about a site I came across yesterday. It's slydial.com. You call their number, listen to an ad (that's how it's free) and then dial the number you'd like to call and leave a voice mail. That's right folks, you can leave a voice mail on

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A friend of mine gave me a very tiny Etch A Sketch. It's on the end of a ballpoint pen. But I'd like to have another one. About the size of a cell phone. And when I'm in a meeting when people pull out their phones and start texting, I'd pull out my mini-Sketch and match their enthusiasm.By the way, I was certain there had to be an online Etch A Sketch and there is. But my recommendation is not to

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Took a four-day trip to Phoenix for a work conference. Good information. Nice people. But it is H-O-T there in mid-July!!!! Dinner on Monday.Christine relaxing after dinner.At the Phoenix Fine Arts Museum.More museum.Consultation Room. Sara is our account manager. Was great to finally meet in person.Tim and Cindy.Smiles! These are new friends from our table at the awards banquet.Texas and

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It was a hit! Once again, had a great time visiting with everyone, spent some time in the sun and saw fireworks, went shopping, ate great food, etc.Our HostsEverybody Enjoying A Great Meal.

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Still on Blogger Vacation, but just wanted to pop in and say I made it back from the Bauer BBQ and it was a whole lot of fun! More later!

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Please check back in a couple of weeks.

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Happy Independence Day!

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I saw some friends of mine the other day that I haven't seen in a while. This couple used to live in my work-town but moved away fifteen years ago to a big Texas city three hours away. They kept their little house here which is on a small private lake. They are in town hosting a Fourth of July reunion of old friends from back in the day. I won't be able to attend as I will be attending the tenth

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Some mornings, when I'm really dragging, I'll listen to my collection of Sousa Marches on my drive to work. Sounds crazy I know, but it is a close second to a strong cup of coffee to get the blood going. "The Thunderer" is one of my favorites. To get you in the mood for all those upcoming fireworks with rousing march music, please read a little something about "The Thunderer." You can listen to

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Today.

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Have you seen these kind of letter openers?Not really so good for scratching your head.Co-worker Connie's blonde moment.

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Another day last week, Sherry surprised us with a visit. She worked for me as a student assistant about sixteen years ago. I'm glad that some of these student workers had a good enough experience in our office that they come back to visit.Me, SWMRN, and Sherry.And check this out. Yesterday, I ran into this woman who I worked for as a student worker during my college days. She said I looked

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Jenny " AKA Beverly"One day last week, Jenny stopped by. She worked for me as a student worker about eighteen years ago! She was college shopping with her bonus daughter. This is her term for her ex-husband's daughter, ex-step daughter, etc.Oh, and the Beverly thing? For some reason I started calling her Beverly and it stuck. Just one of those things.

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