Life

Virus Writing Bastards Must Die

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The desktop is in the shop again. Last Thursday I was surfing the net and got a Malicious Software warning from my Avast anti-virus.  Avast Pro has successfully blocked threats to our PC safety forever.  We have to search the  

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Thunder and Lightning, Oh Noes.

It is spectacularly crappy out there.  I woke up several times and saw bluish-white lightning flash.  Thunder rattled the glass, rain drummed on the windows, and Oliver, upset with this situation, decided to caterwaul about five in the morning and  

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Odds and Ends

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Today is just random stuff.  Sore from the gym yesterday.  After Christmas, I got us a family membership at Golds Gym.  I have to tell you it is the nicest place I have ever worked out.  Not only is it  

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Homosexuality and Rick Santorum

“In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one  

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Plan for Today

Plan for Today

Christmas lights are up.  Kids and Gordon bought this horrible Yo Gabba Gabba inflatable monstrosity and put it in the yard because it’s funny.  Will take pictures later tonight with all the lights on. They had to go to a  

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Gumbo

Gumbo

  It tastes awful.  This is the worst thing I have ever made. I don’t know what I did wrong. but whatever it was, was so wrong, that this delicious dish is so screwed up, it might be legendary. Epic  

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Ehh Bleargh… Brains…

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I feel like the walking dead today.  Woke up, exhausted, dragged myself downstairs.  Everything went wrong. The little dog ate her puppy mat, peed in her play pen, and then rolled in it, so she had to be washed.  (At  

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Today is the PSA Day

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A small E-Press goes up in flames.  Read this, it will make your hair stand on end.  Read more… This is inexcusable.  Sadly, even if the authors can file a class action suit against the publisher, I don’t really know  

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It’s a lazy Sunday

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It’s noon and I’ve done nothing except putz around and supervise the marinading of Curried Honey Barbecue Chicken by Kid 2.  Kid 2 is 13, which means it is time to make sure that if given raw ingredients, she doesn’t starve  

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Fueru Wakame Dried Seaweed

Illustrated Guide on How Not to Be Me

  If you make a mistake, use this.  Lots of this.       _________ *We’ve received a large number of emails about our teapot.  After some research, we concluded that it is Bee House Persimmon.  (Link here.) We bought it  

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