Growing Old Disgracefully

aptitude tests

Published on October 24 2006

One of the requirements for class this week was to take a "job aptitude" test. Considering I've been in more or less one career for a veryveryvery long time, I thought it might be interesting to see what I *should* be doing with my life!! I clipped a...

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snow showers

Published on October 23 2006

It's kinda fun, having a cameraphone. (Yeah, yeah, I know....but I'm just barely into the 90's here, let alone the twenty-first century. Give me a break for being slow.) I lug the phone around everywhere anyway, trying to decide if I'm ready to completely...

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This is kinda cool

Published on October 22 2006

If I use the married name... HowManyOfMe.com There are: 12 people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? But if I use the maiden-once-again-to-be-last?-name.... HowManyOfMe.com There is: 1 person with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your...

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It's almost Halloween

Published on October 21 2006

You'd think we were at Faber College...where KNOWLEDGE IS GOOD "Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring,...

....and his name is Kennedy. Isn't this sorta "aiding the enemy"? KGB Letter Outlines Sen. Kennedy's Overtures to Soviets, Prof Says -- 10/20/2006 In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold...

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Now I own a collectors' item!!

Published on October 20 2006

Ford set to produce last Taurus - Yahoo! News DEARBORN, Mich. - Sometime next week, the assembly line at a Ford plant near Atlanta will come to a halt, signaling the end of a family sedan so revolutionary that its 1985 debut changed forever the way cars...

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Shaking my Head

Published on October 19 2006

What happened to my party? What the hell happened to them? FrontPage magazine.com :: The Coming Impeachment by Rocco DiPippo The ploy of leveling serious, unfounded charges against one's political opponents has served the Democratic Party well in the...

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Bachelet wimps out

Published on October 16 2006

Chávez's U.N. Moment - washingtonpost.com In other words, as Chile's president sees it, it's better to support a budding autocrat who promises to defend Iran's nuclear program on the Security Council, and may threaten her own country's security, than...

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weekly horrorscope

Published on October 15 2006

This week October 16 through October 22 Libra You are still working hard, but after the events of last week you may be just as confused as ever. This week you seem determined to sort it all out and to create a definite plan. The Sun sextiles Saturn on...

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the first snowball of the season...

Published on October 15 2006

...was sent by buddy Barb. I wonder if it's a coincidence that her new Pomeranian puppy is named "Snowball"?