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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

A Glance Back at the Good Old Days

Happy 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 the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 2, 2009

NaNoWriMo -- team write meeting

Shawn 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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Not all spies are Mata Hari -- seductive sirens...

Introducing 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......excerpt deleted... P.S. NaNoWriMo... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Trick or Treat... You decide.

Excerpt 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... Sign in to see full entry.

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In Spain the rain is mainly in the plain...

But 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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

I love halloween!

Yesterday 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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

I found a home on the internet...

Sometimes Blogit is just one big delicious potluck where we all bring our bits to share with everyone. There's this coming home feeling when I read some of the amazing comments on my own blog. And I get so much from the blogs of others. Sometimes we mess up, act like brats, squabble and demand... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Home's in the eye of the beholder

For years I’d thought about going to the citiest of cities, New York. I wanted to see Brooklyn for myself, and Greenwich Village, the very heart of avant garde culture. But then the planes hit the World Trade Center towers and put a stop to my yearning. I could be perfectly happy right there in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

What's your game?

I had coffee with June and Jean at Mickey D's yesterday. It may just be the last time I'll do that, at least with June. I won't repeat June's whole conversation, but it was disturbing. Some of it (as always) I've heard a million times before. But some of it was new: outrageous and hateful. Jean and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Show us your shorts...

No, it's not an indecent proposal. It's an invitation from the Writer's Digest to enter a short story (1500 words or less) in their annual short fiction contest. Deadline is Dec. 1. Since I'll be busy with Herb & Louise and the kids throughout November, I'm afraid if I don't enter before NaNoWriMo,... Sign in to see full entry.

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