Monthly Archives: August 2008
my christmas confession
Shhh… this involves christmas gifts. Jennifer, Mom, Dad, if you’re reading this… well, stop! I love my family but don’t trust them to stop reading so I am not going to actually mention their Christmas gifts. If you want to … Continue reading
Posted in friends and family
Tagged Best Buy, Beth, Black, black friday sales, Christmas, Circuit City, city, dad, Friday, friend beth, friends, Jennifer, misc, mom dad, Shopping, Thanksgiving
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google shockers
I love Google. It is by far the best search engine I have ever used. A few minutes ago, I was searching with Google to find the average size of a person’s vocabulary. So imagine my surprise when I found … Continue reading
Posted in random amusement, technology
Tagged best search engine, digi misc, engine, few minutes, funnies, gallery, Google, NextGen gallery, search, search engine, size, tabs, vocabulary size
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blogs, rss feeds, and bloglines
During the past few days, I’ve been trying to catch up with my feeds and and add a few new blogs to my feedreader (Bloglines). I have encountered a VERY irritating habit of some bloggers. If you have a blog, … Continue reading
Posted in technology
Tagged bloggers, blogging, Bloglines, digi misc, Feed, feedreader, few days, habit, RSS, sake, VERY
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a story you must read
Courtesy of Jess The Girl in the Window Related Posts:lunch and the government bailoutmystery solved: why my package never camethis little light of mine…even history doesn’t last foreverstrange name-words
Posted in personal, randomness
Tagged Courtesy, girl, girl in the window, Jess, my life, news, window
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insomnia and spiders
Warning: Moderately icky post. Read at your own risk. Last night, I couldn’t sleep. I lay in bed, wide awake, wondering why I was awake, and quietly praying, “Lord, I HAVE to get some sleep!” because I have a doctor’s … Continue reading
Posted in personal
Tagged bed, hand, insomnia, Missouri, night, personal rights, quarter inch, randoms, Read, sleep, spider, stray hair, urban myth, Wolf, wolf spider
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personality rights
Lots of hard work and hard research done… yet I have not been able to discover answers to my questions regarding personality rights of the deceased, nor have I been able to find any living relatives of the people I’m … Continue reading
historical fiction and the civil war
I’ve spent the whole day wrestling with plots and storylines. I’m more serious than ever about writing my book. But writing a book that is set in history is VERY challenging. There’s a lot of research that goes into it … Continue reading
Posted in friends and family, writing and other jobs
Tagged affect, air force, book, exact details, history, macro scale, story, storylines, VERY, war, war story, writing, writing a book
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things I learned from the olympic closing ceremony
The patriotic tune, “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” was actually written to the same melody as “God Save the Queen“, the national anthem of England. There is a really cool type of stilts that allow you to jump lots higher. … Continue reading
Posted in around the world
Tagged cool type, country, country tis, england, God, god save the queen, melody, national anthem of england, news, Queen, randoms, stilts, the Olympic, Thee, Tis, tune, United Kingdom
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wikipedia weirdness
Randomly odd fact found on Wikipedia’s Mahjong page… A recent study by doctors in Hong Kong concluded that the game can induce epileptic seizures. Ummm… okay? Related Posts:smurfs and the eurosmurfs and macy’sgeorge washington carverwoodrow wilsonunusual facebook friend requests
Posted in exercise-health, technology
Tagged doctors, epileptic seizures, fact, funnies, Hong Kong, Mahjong, odd fact, page, Randomly, randoms, Wikipedia
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