Annoyingly Boring?

Dial Soap, to the penalty box!
We’ve been using Dial soap in our household for years. I grew up using Dial soap. Sometime in the last not to distant past, Dial soap said, “We don’t care about our long time user PG”. It’s obvious.  The formula hasn’t changed.  Not that I can tell [...]

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Oh boy. A post about religion. Don’t anyone get offended….
I work evenings. It is, in part, because of this my wife and I don’t get many chances to go out. What’s more, when we do usually the kids are in tow. I work in the investment field. The New York [...]

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My sister is a hero. I mention it to people I work with, to friends in the neighborhood. Without exception, people agree. My sister is a hero. I don’t think she sees it quite in those terms. That doesn’t change my point of view.
My sister is off to live in [...]

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Virtual Waiting Rooms
Friday was the day that the Red Sox put tickets to the 9 Yankees games on sale.  In order to try for tickets you had to enter, and be chosen in a lottery.
I received an email earlier in the week letting me know I had been chosen.  The on-sale was to start at [...]

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Several years ago my wife and I bought a second hand ride-on mower from a friend who works in that field. This mower wasn’t in quite good enough shape to be sold used at the shop he worked in but it ran and would do the job nicely for us. We used [...]

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Ok, I have to admit it. I have a man-crush on Eric Rochow. “Who?”, you ask? Why, Eric Rochow of course.
Eric is a video producer in the 3-D world, and the creator and star of two web shows, gardenfork and Real World Green.
Gardenfork is “a weekly show about gardening, cooking and [...]

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The General Dynamic Goliath crane has towered over the Fore River Shipyard since I was just a tot. It is the largest crane of its type in North America. But is is not long for North America.
The shipyard closed in the 80’s and the crane has been idle since. The owner of [...]

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As long time readers of my blog will note  anyone who has been around the last two days will note I once left my car running in my driveway for 45 minutes or so without realizing it.  Well, I am now here to announce that that was a mere moment compared to my idiotic maneuver [...]

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Well so much for getting those few random thoughts out freeing up space and making everything run better….
We needed a few things this morning.  Just simple things like milk and yogurt.
The Explorer never went anywhere yesterday so the snow from yesterdays storm is still piled on it a bit.
I brushed it off while I was [...]

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You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part
I received a Mr. Beer Home Brewing kit for Christmas this year, well actually I received two but turned one into a Target gift card. I brewed my first batch a couple weeks ago and bottled it this afternoon.
Now [...]

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