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Thursday, November 2, 2006

What free time?

There won’t be much of it for me in November. Besides blogging here and covering high school sports for a weekly newspaper, I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The trick will be to do it all without giving up on any of the three. This Friday will be the last regular... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Bring back the weather girls.

A little bit of eye candy might be just what some of us need to cure our dissatisfaction with the state of weather prognostication. For the most part “weather forecasts” are so inaccurate as to be practically useless over a period of more than a few days. Often the forecasts are woefully inaccurate... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 20, 2006

The Great Granddaddy of All Colds

That’s what it felt like while I was going through it. It was enough to knock me completely out of posting for five days. I started dragging a little last Saturday when I did manage to make some posts. I figured it was just fatigue from the near freezing cold of the night before when I did my usual... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Random thoughts:

Friday was Friday the 13 th. There is really no special significance for the date except in folklore and superstition. People subconsciously want it to mean something so they ascribe extraordinary significance to anything that occurs whenever Friday coincides with this particular day of the month. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Brrrr, time to turn the heat up.

One of the things I dislike about living in a trailer, excuse me -- a mobile home, is how rapidly it cools down in cold weather. Especially an old an drafty one like I’m renting these days. It shouldn’t be too bad tonight. It probably won’t be as bad as it was at the football game I covered last... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Beautiful Weather

That’s what we’ve had for the last three days in this part of central North Carolina. But its not going to stay that way. It figures. Friday night is when I cover local high school football games for a weekly newspaper. The last two Friday’s have been two of the very coldest days we’ve had since... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

"It's The Same Old Song" -- part 3

…sort of. I’ve already used the title of the old Four Tops hit in my last two posts to “notapoet’s notebook.” But the meaning is different here. It’s the same as last night with me posting in the wee hours of the morning. But there are differences. I finished my stories and got them filed in time... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 9, 2006

I've just about had it

…for tonight. I’m feeling poorly -- got a cold -- and I’m so tired I just want to go home and crawl into bed. I’ll be heading home in a few minutes. But bed is still some hours away. I’ve got a deadline to meet and I’m running short on time. Once I sign off here I’ll still have several hours of work... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 8, 2006

Froze my ass off last night.

Not literally, but it sure felt like it. Yesterday was a rainy day with the temperature plummeting as soon as the cloud cover came in. It would have been great fall weather to enjoy until the sun went down. Then, with a warm meal under my belt and some hot coffee in my hand, I could have meditated... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 6, 2006

"Oh Happy Day"

…the check was in the mail! One of them was, anyway. It may not have been what the Edwin Hawkins Singers had in mind when they recorded their only national hit in 1969. But it was a pretty good description of my elation at finally receiving one of the two checks I was looking for. In 1969, “Oh Happy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

The checks weren't in the mail

…not today’s mail, anyway. I guess I should heed the words of the English poet, Alexander Pope, *Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.” But when you’ve just finally managed to pay last month’s bills and this month’s are already staring you in the face, it’s hard not... Sign in to see full entry.

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"Please Mr. Postman"

…was a 1961 tune by the Marvellettes that made it all the way to #1. The song’s title keeps going through my head as I wait for the mail each day. I’m looking for checks and other good news. I’m also wishing for a minimum of bad news in the form of bills and other negative material. The last couple... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 2, 2006

Moving on down the road

…was the head on my last post to a travel blog deleted about a year ago. It sounds like it should be a song title, doesn’t it? It’s not. I checked the pop charts reference material I have and the closest I could find was “Movin’ On.” It doesn’t make any difference. I don’t always have to use a song... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 25, 2006

Somebody won my $200 million.

At least that’s what I heard on the news. I didn’t really expect to win -- especially since I didn’t even buy a ticket for the most recent Power Ball drawing. Money was a little tight, so I passed this time. I don’t buy many lottery tickets, and only one at a time when I do. The odds are so... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 22, 2006

Reposts, Rewrites, and Revisions

Wow! Another “Three Rs” rears its (their?) ugly heads. Don’t run away in horror. This post is none of the above, although my last one was if you care to check it out. One of my big regrets in blogging is that I deleted ten blogs during my last two incarnations here. My reason was that once I had a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Recycled Beans

Once upon a time I had 22 blogs instead of 12. About two years ago I started gradually eliminating blogs to try to get down to a more manageable number. There were a few posts in several of the blogs that I felt were worth saving. Following is one of my favorites from the deleted “Notapoet’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Decisions, decisions

…too many decisions to make about which blogs to kill off next because I just can’t keep up with twelve at a time without making all of them suffer. Okey-dokey, I’ve got a blog about writing, about blogging, and a fiction blog. Do I need all three? Could I combine them into one? Could I combine all... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Time out

…from my reminiscences of younger days and old songs. And its been a very long time out, I might add -- ‘bout a year. So it’s really “time back in” after a not so brief reflection on two recurring themes in my life for the past decade. “Murphy’s Law” (If something can go wrong, it will) and “If it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 29, 2005

"I Can't Stop Loving You"

…is my all-time favorite song from the late-great Ray Charles. It was a monster hit when he first released it in 1962, but it didn‘t make a big impression on me until a couple of years later when I heard it again. I don’t think it got that much air time on our local, and very small, AM station. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 25, 2005

"I Can't Help Myself"

I know. I’m hung up on songs lately. This one was a monster hit by the Four Tops -- and my cutesy way of saying I’ve deleted three more blogs in my attempt to get down to a reasonable number of blogs that I can successfully update regularly without having to become a full-time blogger. One of my... Sign in to see full entry.

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