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Never Own Your Home Outright.

Published on March 6 2006

Never Own Your Home Outright. Never Own Your Home Outright. Instead, Get a Big 30-year Mortgage, and Never Pay It Off — Regardless of Your Age and Income Well, according to this guy, I did EVERYTHING wrong. It's fun to do everything wrong sometimes, though....

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Too early in the morning

Published on January 26 2006

There are times I really hate the night shift--not so much because of being awake (or at least trying to look like I'm awake) at all hours as much as I think too much on that shift. There are hours of quiet except for the rumbling of the machinery, and...

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Your Birthday tune

Published on January 15 2006

This site will tell you the #1 tune in the country (either the US or UK) on the day you were born. My US song is: "Mr Cluster - Larry Verne" Who??? I do recognize the UK song, however. It's: "Tell Laura I Love Her - Ricky Valance" Wonder if that's where...

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Cataloging my ruination

Published on January 1 2006

Midlife Assessment - Cataloging my ruination. By Jonathan Ames I'm 41 years old, and I'm absolutely falling apart. I'll start from the top and work my way down, cataloging, as it were, my disintegration. And after reading this guy's "catalog", I feel...

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Closer to the center than I'd thought

Published on December 25 2005

Political Compass While farting around on the computer this am, I surfed into a site I've seen before. I've taken this little test in the past, and decided to take it again, just to see if the score is even remotely the same as previous scores. I used...

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Too bad it isn't REAL $$$$

Published on October 27 2005

My blog is worth $3,951.78. How much is your blog worth?

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it was thirty years ago today.....

Published on September 3 2005

Mitch at Shot in the Dark, a good Northerner even though not from Wisconsin, wrote a great tribute to a great record album released thirty years ago this weekend. Can it really be that long since we heard the screen door slam for the first time? Tramps...

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Oh lord, I am starved

Published on August 13 2005

In Virginia Beach, Restaurants Where the Food Goes Sideways - New York Times

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56 hours in.....

Published on July 6 2005

.......and 24 to go.

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Hmmmm......decisions, decisions

Published on June 27 2005

AAS Degree Requirements History HIS 101 US History to the Civil War 3 cr. HIS 102 History of the US: From the Era of the Civil War to the Present 3 cr. HIS 127 The World in the 20th Century 3 cr. Political Science POL 175 International Politics 3 cr....