http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/Sometimes you have to write it down in order to learn what you really think about life, what it means, how to do what's best. Sometimes you need feedback from someone else to put things in perspective. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/634604You’d like Herb. Everybody does. These days he’s bland as oatmeal, just a bit shy of thirty-six, but he wasn’t always that way. "Stretch" Jensen was the alpha dog and high scorer for the XXXTown Timberwolves three years running. He’s accepted his status as beta dog in the office, although on...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/634479I expected the Flubby Ducks guys in the a.m., and so kept writing about Herb & Louise. Helped the word count, but I had groceries to shop and people to see. Dave finally called at a little after two -- while I was taking a break to watch my favorite soap opera. He was half an hour out and on his...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/634375I've met my quota for NaNoWriMo as of yesterday by the skin of my teeth. Interruptions abound. Dave from Flubby Ducks came to check the basement carpeting. He says it will be dry in one more day, and then leans on the doorjam to chit-chat about the weather... He was here Monday and Tuesday, too....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/634257This father served time for armed robbery, was arrested for leaving a firearm where an unsupervised minor could get hold of it. The 8-year-old tried to rob a little girl at their day-care center, using a gun he had hidden in his backpack. That’s my boy! My pride and joy, takes after his ol’ man,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/634123Happy Days of Yesteryear: Tom Trigg of LeClaire Lake His Galaxy of Ideas Made It the Cynosure of Village Activity By RLT By the time the first decade of the 20th century rolled into the second, Thomas J. Trigg was an old-timer in LeClaire, N. O. Nelson’s cooperative village. Two more years and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/634002Shawn emailed me about the meetings, and I got to the first one, late... He gave me the notice of the next one, which would be ten a.m. to five on Sunday. I went around to make sure I knew where it was while I was out on Saturday afternoon... Since I don't have a laptop, I almost opted out. But...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/633878Introducing Joy Herring -- NSA field agent. You may remember her from yesterday, her interaction with Colton Winfield, the numbnuts mole who got himself fired from the Justice Department for sharing confidential information with our friends at Albeit Security... It wasn’t the services Albeit...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/633772Excerpt from Waking The Zombies: Joe has spent a few days in the belly of the beast as a "consultant." Albeit knows he's the key to finding Uncle, the NSA cryptologist whose spybot application had been easter-egged to Albeit inside Joe's game. But they've had to restort to old-fashioned detective...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/633748But it's flooding little old Mundane. Yesterday, after my visit to Blogit I found carpet puddles in my basement. Splashy puddles. This is getting to be a pain, second time this year it's flooded. I called in the crew Memorial Day. We had fans and dehumidifiers going for eight days, there was some...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Pat_B/633651Yesterday it started to rain before I could get to the store for treats. And before I could get at the fallen leaves. It rained all day. It rained all night. Most of the leaves are down now, inches deep on the lawn which has stayed green all summer because we've had so much darn rain. Kids can...