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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Another day down the tubes.

I missed out on blogging again yesterday. It’s just as well. My son and daughter-in-law were celebrating their anniversary and I wouldn’t have wanted to accidentally interfere. It wasn’t a total loss. Besides catching up on some sleep, I was able to investigate a few things about the wonderful world... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

I’ve been thinking about giving it up.

Smoking, not blogging. Smoker’s cough, which hadn’t bothered me for a while, seems to have returned with a vengeance. I think part of it is the oppressive hot weather we’ve been having in North Carolina. When we do get a little rain, like yesterday, the humidity seems to combine with the heat to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Greater love hath no man

…for blogging then to be willing to give up the Major League All-Star Game to blog. Especially a dyed in the wool baseball freak like yours truly. So stop right here if team sports, and baseball in particular, have no great interest for you. I may have given up my sports blog for now, but I’ll... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 9, 2007

It’s been a disjointed, off the cuff day.

None of what I planned to write has seemed to quite work out. Mostly I’ve jotted down ideas and produced little snippets of this and that. And that’s fine by me. Some of my best work, as well as some of my more popular posts, have come out of days like this. Strangely enough, a good percentage of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 8, 2007

The readers have spoken

…with their silence. No one is reading three of my blogs. So be it. Bye bye to notapoet’s blogs in the categories of Fiction, Health & Fitness, and On Blogging. No one has read “As American as Apple Pie and Baseball” in more than a week. I really love that blog and rarely missed posting to it on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 6, 2007

It's a strange world we live in.

Edison and Einstein might be flops in today’s world. In this day and time there seems to be more money in marketing get rich quick schemes than there is in practical inventions and scientific theory. Or so it seems. Henry Ford might be on the NASCAR Circuit if he were alive and getting started in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 5, 2007

Got your Iphone yet?

Not me. Nor am I likely to have one anytime in the near future. Years of experience in the electronics industry taught me three things about hot, new, must-have electronics. If you wait past the initial hype, the price will come down. If you wait for a while the initial bugs that almost always... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Is Mensa looking for you?

Could be if your IQ is in the top 2 percent of the general population. At least that is what my dictionary tells me, along with the fact that it’s an international organization. But Mensa is probably not looking for you, and definitely not for an underachiever like me. This is no reflection on your... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 1, 2007

One of the things I like

...about a category named “Everything Else” is that you can do anything you want with it and not feel that your words would be better suited for a different category. Indeed, one can’t help but wonder why it would be necessary to use anything except a catchall like Everything Else or Journal. In... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 29, 2007

Hodgepodge Day

A little of this, a little of that, and a lot of rain. The rain didn’t arrive till the afternoon. It was oppressively hot before the first gully-whumper hit us. So hot that I wasn’t getting much done. I tried to get in a little writing before it got too uncomfortable. But between the rapidly rising... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Life is full of disappointments.

I thought I was about to get high speed internet. I was assured by a neighbor just a few hundred yards away that it was now available in our area from the local phone company. He'd just signed up. But no, the phone company shot me down. I can't get it just yet. Evidently I'm on the wrong side of my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Everything else has been on hold,

including this blog in the catchall category of the same name, while I’ve had to get my life reorganized for the umpteenth time in just over a decade. Change can be good or bad. But, while you’re going through the process it mostly sucks. Life is much simpler when you don’t have to deal with a lot... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

I’m thoroughly pissed,

pardon my French. Not only has another day gone by without any check from the newspaper I freelance for, I just learned that Mark McGwire got passed over for the Baseball Hall of Fame. The money I need to pay my bills. The snubbing of Big Mac is another case of convicting a man without a trial --... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 8, 2007

Random Thoughts and Loose Ends

Wesley Autry, New York’s subway hero, personifies what I consider true heroism. Without regard for his own safety he risked his life to save a complete stranger from certain death. He did it because it was the right and human thing to do. It made no difference to Wesley that he saved a man of a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 5, 2007

Foggy brain

…is what I’m suffering from right now. I’m almost thinking coherently. Just not quite enough to keep blogging much longer without seriously embarrassing myself. Times like this I usually start inventing words by accident. The fog between the ears prevents me from noticing it until they are out there... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 1, 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!

I’d planned on leaving a New Year’s greeting on each of my blogs, but it doesn’t look like I’m going to last quite that long. My nose went back on the grindstone this weekend and I’ve got to put the finishing touches on my column before emailing it in and calling it a night. I’d love to stick around... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 29, 2006

Made to be broken

…that’s the way I view New Year’s Resolutions. Seriously now, how many of your January 1 resolutions do you actually keep? And I don’t mean all of the easy stuff that a three-year-old could keep with undue difficulty. I learned the trick of making resolutions that should be easy to stick with when I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Got your New Year’s Eve Party planned?

I don’t. At this late date I doubt I could throw a decent party together even if I could afford one. I guess that makes me available to attend yours. Direct all invitations to: notapoet, care of Blogit. Or you can give me a personal invite via comment in one of my blogs. All invites will be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

I had that beer I was talking about day before yesterday.

My son and the grandkids came rolling in while I was trying to make the links to nowhere become links to somewhere. It was chaos for a while. A good kind of chaos. My grandkids made out like bandits on the Christmas loot. Besides the loot from Santa, Mom & Dad, and Poppa, they had a second round of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 25, 2006

I need a beer now.

Or maybe something a little harder. I started out with the best intentions in the world. All I wanted to do was give all of you a little token of my appreciation. Since I had already put it forth in my “WRITERS WRITE” blog day before yesterday, it seemed the simple thing to do was to put a link to... Sign in to see full entry.

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