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1. BY mommy 05.16.08 AT 8:18 AM

   Rain
   Rain

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2. BY deb 05.16.08 AT 8:24 AM

   Rave: My husband’s work schedule was changed so he can be in town w/ me when I hear back from my biopsy. Rejoicing!

   Rant: While youngest daughter was looking for a lid to the salad bowl, she knocked over the lamp oil (Long story) spilling 6-8 oz in my freshly mopped kitchen floor. At the exact same time, spaghetti noodles are boiling over on the stove and oldest daughter is crying on my shoulder on the phone.

   Rave: Family!

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3. BY Peter L 05.16.08 AT 8:46 AM

   Sinus infection.
   Medications in next-to-impossible-to-open packaging.
   Medication packaging with print so small one needs a microscope to read.

   Last Friday of the school year!!!!!

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4. BY kBells 05.16.08 AT 8:55 AM

   My baby turns five this Sunday.
   My baby turns five this Sunday.

   PeterL. Get yourself some local honey and eat about a 1/2 tsp. a day.

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5. BY Chas 05.16.08 AT 9:12 AM

   We returned from Williamsburg, Va. Last night. It was a nice trip. Everything is expensive in Williamsburg (Sandwich at Josiah Chownings Tavern, $9.00, coffee $2.50), but it isn’t a tourist trap on the order of South of the Border. Williamsburg is a foundation established by John D. Rockefeller who bought the town and restored it. The foundation maintains the historical motif of the area. It’s a worthwhile destination, especially if you have children in third grade, or older.

   Thirteen years ago, Elvera, I and the grandkids were walking by the capitol. A tour guide was lounging by the wall. He said to Mary, “How old are you?”
   “Ten”
   “I’m going to use your comment on my next tour.”
   What Mary had said to us was, “It’s kinda boring when you just read about it, but it’s really interesting when you see all the places where it happened.”

   It’s a good area for taking children ten and older. What we did is take them to Williamsburg, then over to Yorktown and Jamestown. That usually took about three days. We always capped it off then with a trip to Busch Gardens. The girls are grown now, but they still have those straw hats Elvera bought them years ago. $25.00 each. They’re only $26.00 now.

   Wednesday, we were at Yorktown, and I was standing on redoubt 9, imagining the French troops storming the redoubt. Elvera said, “I wonder what kind of flowers these are? I know they’re wildflowers, but I’ve never seen these before.”

   Gas was $3.73 and I put half a tank of 10% ethanol in my car before I noticed what it was. I almost did it a second time, but noticed before I stopped and pulled through to another station. Ethanol doesn’t burn as hot as gasoline and will reduce your mileage that much. I don’t know how much, but some. I’m getting 24.8 mpg, so I can’t afford much.

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6. BY Make it Man 05.16.08 AT 9:15 AM

   
   Deb. I can relate. I’ve had a week like that. Why is it that crises always seem to snowball?
   I had a tough time last Friday because I couldn’t get my databases transferred to the new version of our design software, so that was hanging over my head… and then the boss called me Saturday afternoon and said “Guess what I’m looking at? A blank screen.” His hard drive was on the way out. So I was under the gun first thing on Monday morning. Then the bookkeeper says her Internet Explorer is not working and can I help her with the Quickbooks upgrade? Then since I had my computer tied up with something, I was using the spare PC out in the showroom when it started giving messages about the fan not working and to shut it down. At about the same time the CNC operator came in from the shop and told me that a program had crashed the CNC Router’s drill bank into the table, and what was wrong, and could I fix it? (I called tech support for that too.) I put off tech support for the design software three or four times trying to get the HD back up and running (after searching high and low for the Windows XP disk I finally found it in a co-workers closet). It took until Monday evening to get the HD running because the secondary drive or the network card kept hanging up the install. Finally reseated the NIC, and unplugged the secondary, and the install proceeded. Then the CNC tech support called me (I forget which day now – it’s all become a blur) and I figured out how to fix our crashing problem – good to know for future reference. Then of course our new paint shaker came in, and I had to make sure the old one was crated up and shipped off, but the truck came before I was ready. We don’t ship things very often so of course it’s disruptive to find and use all the tools necessary.

   And… I can’t remember what all else. Like I said, it’s all become a blur.

   Things have finally settled down, and now I can finally get back to… the install and database transfer that I was working on last Friday.

   
   I love my job. It’s never boring.

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7. BY Chas 05.16.08 AT 9:19 AM

   I finished reading “Safely Home”, by Randy Alcorn; recommended by one of you. I think it was VS, but my memory may be bad. A good book, I will give a book report later, but now I have to get ready to go to Lions. Maybe tomorrow; I have lots of catching up to do.

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8. BY michelle 05.16.08 AT 9:25 AM

   Really hot here

   Really generous brother took me on a terrific trip

   Getting to fly business class 1/3 of the way around the world

   I’m now spoiled for flying ever again.

   My family was glad to see me home again.

   I’m glad to be here.

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9. BY kBells 05.16.08 AT 9:36 AM

   My husband’s stolen briefcase.

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10. BY StuBob 05.16.08 AT 9:51 AM

    Get yourself some local honey…

    Good advice. Long distance romance stinks!

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11. BY michelle 05.16.08 AT 9:56 AM

    RAVE: People like Make it Man who can do the above

    RANT: People like me who, despite having the “easiest camera in the world to operate,” still managed to reformat the memory stick and lose irreplaceable pictures.

    RAVE: Programs that can do something with the memory stick and retrieve the photos

    RANT: It didn’t work with my camera.

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12. BY KI 05.16.08 AT 10:08 AM

    I”ve heard about the local honey thing. Both my husband and I (and all the kids and grandkids!) could benefit, but wonder how far is local?

    That is a good book, Chas. I hope someday we can also do a similar trip. Too late for the kids. Maybe the grandkids?

    My wonderful hubbie is making me a ham and cheese omelet. Yum!

    Sun for awhile this morning. Plenty of rain, so no worries about fires.

    Too cold, too long!

    I will be visiting at my folks tonight with lots of family who are coming to visit with my uncle who will probably die soon. He is on an extended trip to say goodbye to many. He is full of life anyway. Pray we will have the right words. We have visited before and I know he has a wonderful attitude about it all.

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13. BY Mark Roth 05.16.08 AT 10:08 AM

    Our federal Economic Stymulus “rebate” showed up in our account this morning.

    It wasn’t their money.

    It was yours.

    It’s ours now.

    Till we use it to pay some bills.

    No new-to-us car for us.

    

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14. BY grandma 05.16.08 AT 10:16 AM

    Rave–The sun is shining and it is suppose to be in the 80’s this weekend. That means golf! And lots of sunscreen.

    Rant–We really do need a good soaking rain. That means we have to get the sprinklers going.

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15. BY llama 05.16.08 AT 10:31 AM

    President Bush said that you cannot placate or appease terrorists or those that want you dead, that appeasers have always been wrong and failed throughout history and we should learn that no talks with these enemies should be allowed. Immediately, the entire left, from Carter who legitimized and appeased Hamas, Pelosi who legitimized and appeased Syria, Hillary whose husband appeased Al Qaeda and North Korea and Obama who said he would meet without preconditions with our terrorist enemies and state sponsors of terrorist, just had a hissy fit and said the President should not have blamed them – even though they were not even named by him. Yep, even they know they are guilty as charged and that they are woosie surrender monkey appeasers who will get you killed with their naive insanity and then blame you for it.

    The whack jobs on the left with 100 Republicans passed the farm subsidy bill which was the worst thing that could possibly happen. We expect the lying left to lie through their teeth when they steal from us but these 100 Republicans should be recalled – shame on the. This bill has huge piles of pork the left said they would stop – what liars. They are giving subsidies to farmers who have an adjusted gross income of over $2 million a year. Why do socialists think that multimillionaire per year income people need subsidies? If these horrible subsidies were ever to dropped this was the time to do it with the current record farmer income. They added to the ethanol program subsidy too so that people in the world will starve for lack of corn. There is absolutely nothing good in this bill period. The left and these 100 Republicans are just incorrigible and evil. Why would they do such a thing? Like I told you, all laws passed by these criminals have one thing in common – lobbyists, clients who hire them and the lawmakers themselves have formed a criminal conspiracy to steal from and defraud the US tax payers . These criminals pass laws so the lobbyist’s clients profit handsomely, the lobbyists get paid handsomely by subsidy recipients and then the lobbyists kick back part of the fraud the lawmakers call subsidies and give this bribe money directly to the elected officials that stole from and defrauded you by passing a law that was nothing more than a criminal conspiracy. We should just shoot ourselves in the head.

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16. BY Cameron 05.16.08 AT 10:35 AM

    Attempted to help out a friend of a friend I’ve never met who needed to be driven somewhere. She never called to confirm the details, so I showed up early this morning as I said I would. Without apology, she said she didn’t need the ride.

    I’m not able to be gracious about her actions.

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17. BY mommy 05.16.08 AT 10:56 AM

    stubob – lol

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18. BY kimberly 05.16.08 AT 11:04 AM

    KI–
    Sorry about your uncle. I still miss one of mine who died from cancer several years ago.

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19. BY Ivan the Terrible 05.16.08 AT 11:13 AM

    The D’Backs continue as the best team in baseball and Brandon Webb is 9-0.
    RANT Activist judges in CA and elsewhere.

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20. BY mtcon 05.16.08 AT 11:18 AM

    Rant: Ditto Llama on the Terrorist appeasers!!

    Rave! Ditto Llama on the FARM BILL!

    Rant: I had a great rant and rave all written and clicked on the srong button and lost it!

    Rave! We are going golfing and I will reconstruct it later.

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21. BY Make it Man 05.16.08 AT 11:22 AM

    Michelle!
    Try it on another computer. Sometimes some computers don’t recognize the camera as a drive. Or.. if you have a card reader, then you can do it that way, because then the software recognizes the drive.

    I was successfully able to recover photos previously deleted by accident this way.

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22. BY Cheryl D. 05.16.08 AT 12:47 PM

    Four interviews this week (book-related), and I think they all went well

    I saw the Prince Caspian movie last night, my first-ever midnight showing–it didn’t stick with the book and was intense, but it was probably a better movie than Lion, Witch, Wardrobe

    several hours with friends related to the above

    not getting to bed till 3:30 because of the above

    working from my home, so that I can go back and take a nap now, and no one can tell me I can’t

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23. BY clayjar 05.16.08 AT 12:49 PM

    Rant: Senate passes farm bill. Talk about adding fuel to the fire of rising food prices. Again, greed over charity at work.

    Rave: We got through another month. YHWH YRH!

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24. BY RobHays 05.16.08 AT 12:58 PM

    New job doing something I love.

    New job has enough flexibility that I can return here.

    New job is in the liberal MSM.

    Long distance relationships DO stink.

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25. BY VS 05.16.08 AT 1:27 PM

    Chas – I did recommend that book by R Alcorn. Glad you enjoyed it.

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26. BY Ajisuun 05.16.08 AT 2:12 PM

    Rave: A prominent government official went through town and gave $1000 dollars to two different schools in town. (Remember, I don’t live in the U.S. so it’s no one you know!)

    Rant: The government official ordered the schools to use the money for a party.

    (To put it into perspective, in this economy, $1000 could pay my 20 employees salaries for a month. It could buy 25 100 lb. bags of rice at a time when people are going hungry because the price of rice is so high.) Grrr!

    Rant: My phone line/internet connection is terrible! I can only stay connected for about 5 minutes at a time and it is very slow. As I was typing this, I lost connection and the phone line is now beeping. You all may never see this, I might just be talking to myself (which is not all that unusual).

    Rave: Because I let my employees attend the party mentioned above, I got to attend the baby-naming party for my friend’s grandson. (When the employees are away, the boss will play!)

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27. BY llama 05.16.08 AT 2:22 PM

    Rained hard this morning – horrible day

    Rain now gone, spectacular beautiful day and the track will dry in plenty of time to race tonight. Won the first race of the season so we are in 1st place – a first to say the least but hope it lasts a while longer

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28. BY mumsee 05.16.08 AT 2:55 PM

    Happy face: Beautiful sunshiney day.

    Happy face: Grass is growing nearly to backpocket height and mower is still broken so I am pushing the older John Deere mower around the five acres, thoroughly enjoying the slower pace.

    Happy face: People coming for a barbecue tomorrow but they don’t care if all the grass is mowed or not, just so there is room to sit around gabbing.

    Happy face: Daughter is off to a club fair for the weekend, she has been looking forward to going since before joining us. Third daughter is off on a jet boat ride learning about Hell’s Canyon. Younger son and I will be going this afternoon to the funeral of his bus driver who died unexpectedly and son wants to go.

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29. BY KayVee 05.16.08 AT 3:16 PM

    to Chas: Thanks for reminding me of Williamsburg. Their parents and I took the grandkids, then 11 & 12, there in 2001 and had a wonderful time. The boy even gave in to his sister and dressed in costume. They grew apart for a while, then he went away to college. Now he’s home for the summer and they are as inseparable as they were when they were little and folks thought they were twins.

    Grandson turns 19 today! A year away from home and he’s turned into a responsible adult.

    My sweet baby boy is 19 years old.

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30. BY mumsee 05.16.08 AT 3:22 PM

    Happy Birthday, Grandson!

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31. BY NJLawyer 05.16.08 AT 3:32 PM

    Congratulations to Rob Hays on the new job!!!!!! Best of luck.

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32. BY Make it Man 05.16.08 AT 9:36 PM

    Congratulations to Cheryl D for all those interviews! Hope it goes well for you.

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33. BY Karen O 05.18.08 AT 9:21 PM

    Kayvee – My older daughter turned 19 on Sat. (May 17). I celebrate another year of her life, but kinda miss “my little girl”.

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34. BY SteveG 05.18.08 AT 9:29 PM

    Rant: People (including some on this thread) throwing around the word “appeasement” without really understanding what it means.

    Rave: Voters are wising up to cheap rhetorical tricks like that.

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