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Valentine’s Day Love (Almost)

Does giving up watching the NASCAR Truck Race so one’s spouse can watch the Olympic opening ceremony count?1 If so, then I am truly a great catch. I suppose I still have to get a card and flowers. As though … Continue reading

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I Did not Know all the Words

As we celebrate Kansas Day again, all the words to Home on the Range, the Kansas state song: VERSE 1 Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard … Continue reading

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Back on the Air

The tbbs web provider, the excellent and highly recommended Delaware-based hosting.com, performed some database maintenance in the wee small dark hours earlier today. In spite of my receiving 5+ emails from them about the scheduled maintenance, I neglected to read … Continue reading

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TSA Knee-Jerkage

Following the Christmas Day Johnson-lighting horror, the TSA is pulling out all the stops to ensure our safety in the skies: I applaud the efforts and vigilance of our public servants. -k- UPDATE: From what I’ve seen since, I think … Continue reading

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I Have Nothing to Say, Therefore I Upgrade

Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB … Continue reading

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Two Hours, Cold Wet Feet, and 15 Bucks/Hour

I’m cold, wet, and tired. Two hours on the handle of a snow shovel is not my idea of fun. The dig, traipse across the street, dump, repeat ritual behind the aught-one Saturn, combined with some Midwest-learned knowledge of “rocking” … Continue reading

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Still and Clear

As in still snowing, and clear up to your ass. Lucky me, I get to scoop a path across the deck seen in the picture a few posts back. The satellite dish is atop the shed; we’ve lost the signal. … Continue reading

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I Think There’s a Saturn in There

Your forbearance is humbly requested, while I post yet another snow photo. This is a view out tbbs WorldHQ’s front door, which reveals my covered ’01 Saturn. We think MLB’s ’08 is under the pile mid-photo, and our neighbor’s VW … Continue reading

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Snowbound and Upgraded

I spent part of Snow Day today upgrading this old blog to WordPress 2.9. I’ve never been able to get the automatic WP upgrade to work; it seems to download the upgrade, it says “Done” in the dashboard status bar, … Continue reading

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And the Radio still works..

When life sends you snow, you blog about it. With pictures. This one reveals our outside Sirius Satellite Radio antenna. This is needed to get any kind of reliable signal at all; here in the underbelly of our three-level townhouse, … Continue reading

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