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group name: dorksrus
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November 05, 2009 09:12 AM EST --
Backstory
NO SURGERY!!!
The Ortopedic surgeon said so! She separated three ribs from her spine, BUT... (and it's a BIG BUT) they're only PARTIALLY separated with no significant . . .
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November 03, 2009 08:33 AM EST --
Yesterday (Monday, 11/02) I was about an hour late getting home. My transmission had dropped into "limp" (again!), and I drove VERY sedately for 60 miles to get it to the garage. I got home . . .
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October 28, 2009 09:36 PM EDT --
Sunday the 25th was a gorgeous day, so we decided to take the grandkids to Crossroads Village in flint, Michigan. The Genessee County Parks maintains a "village" of transplanted houses, with an . . .
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November 03, 2009 04:00 PM EST --
She'll be OK, but it's gonna take a while. She'll be in hospital for a couple more days, and then we may see a couple of weeks in a physical rehab facility. After that, I'll have to move the . . .
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June 17, 2009 06:34 PM EDT --
At the Power Plant at which I work, we've had a pair of Peregrine Falcons nesting under an overhang for the past thirteen years. Leopold, the male, has been there from the first. However, . . .
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July 28, 2009 06:35 PM EDT --
I decided I was gonna get some points and cash out, so I wrote some killer articles on controversial subjects (I believed everything I said... truly I did - no fake arguments from me, folks), and garnered . . .
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February 22, 2009 01:36 PM EST --
No, it's not a song lyric. Apologies to anyone who might be wondering why I haven't been around consistently this week -- I've been taking care of Laura and balancing my work load, which means . . .
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March 06, 2009 06:34 PM EST --
Whenever I think I'm having a good day, I just need a teenager to remind me that life is full of disappointments and upsets.
Yes, this is a rant. For those of you not interested in such things, . . .
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October 22, 2009 10:14 PM EDT --
Read the First installment, first: Life as a Ghost - Part 1: The Dead Life
Read the Previous installment: Life as a Ghost - Part 3: Confusion Reigns
I could handle . . .
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May 07, 2009 08:47 AM EDT --
I guess that now that it's Mother's Day, I'll distribute this.
It's Mother's Day again, and I haven't seen you in a while... since 1996 to be exact. I have visited . . .
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June 16, 2009 08:38 PM EDT --
Grandson Bubba (Nathaniel) and I took a walk down by th' lake. We boosted a hen mallard before I could get a photo of her, but I got Bubba and the nest.
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June 29, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
Remember this 'guy?' Rescued from our power plant?
Well, 'she's' back.
Hey! Watch it there! Back off!
She's a good bit bigger, now... . . .
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June 30, 2009 08:55 PM EDT --
I NEVER buy new cars.
About a month ago, my Son-in-Law found me a car. He works for a dealer, and they had a '95 Cirrus with 110,000 miles on it. I was driving a '98 Dodge Stratus (essentially . . .
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July 18, 2009 05:01 PM EDT --
I hate gardening... of ANY description. I hate it in ways you can't imagine.
When I was a boy, beginning at the age of eight, my mother would have a one-acre plot plowed, disced and harrowed. . . .
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October 05, 2009 07:54 PM EDT --
Absurd little teacup poodle woke me this morning, yammering at the end of the bed, fairly bouncing with the need to attack whatever went “THUD, BAM, BANG!” I didn’t really HEAR . . .
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October 21, 2009 08:46 PM EDT --
Read the first installment, first: Life as a Ghost - Part 1: The Dead Life
In 1956 I lived in a big old house in Hudson, Ohio. The Village of Hudson (now known as ‘The City of the . . .
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October 22, 2009 08:54 AM EDT --
Read the First installment, first: Life as a Ghost - Part 1: The Dead Life
Read the Second installment: Life as a Ghost - Part 2: It Begins
I left the bedroom and headed . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:31 PM EDT --
In 1967, at Hiram College, behind a door, in a cabinet, in a biology laboratory, resided a cardboard box of very little weight. If you lifted the box, it would rustle. If you opened it, excelsior (finely . . .
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March 11, 2008 07:50 PM EDT --
Argh. Argh argh argh. I should have known it would be a bad day when I couldn't stay asleep last night. Today, I feel pain all over, and the world has been doing its best to ensure that things just . . .
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August 06, 2008 01:36 PM EDT --
Good afternoon, fellow Gatherers - how are you doing today? I'm a little tired, myself. Not that that's particularly unusual, but I'm trying to be awake and get work done. Here's today's . . .
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