I hope the mom is better at saying “no” to her 14 children then her parents, doctors and insurance companies were with her.
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Sad to hear this morning that Macavine Hayes has gone on to the juke joint in the sky. Hope he’s serenading the angels.
If you’re a fan of the blues, think about joining the Musicmaker Relief Foundation. For only $25 you get an awesome CD of great blues artists.
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A class called “pavement marking rodeo” just brings wonderful images to my mind. And it could explain a lot about NCDOT.
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Cox Communications, the third-largest U.S. cable company, stepped on to the battleground of the “Net Neutrality” issue Tuesday, saying it will be trying out a new way to keep its subscribers’ Internet traffic from jamming up.
Starting on Feb. 9 in parts of Kansas and Arkansas, Cox will give priority to Internet traffic it judges to [...]

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Caught this tidbit in an article on Salon:
Some of the items in the Democratic draft, if taken out of context, are easily mocked. Like, for example, the $200 million to re-sod the National Mall, or the $44 million to renovate the exterior of the Agriculture Department building in Washington.
Umm…wouldn’t lawn maintenance of a heavily-used, urban [...]

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Decent acting is all that keeps this shrill, overblown mess of unbelievable dialog and unlikable characters from descending into late night fare for the Lifetime channel. One 50s cliche after another (Everyone dresses the same! They drink a lot! They smoke a lot! People live in the suburbs and commute on trains!) is rolled out [...]

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So the last week was pretty amazing on a number of counts. (1) Barack Obama was inaugurated. (2) Barry and I were in DC with a few million other people for the occasion. (3) I met a whole bunch of cousins that I’d never met before.
We arrived on Saturday after a lovely drive up Route [...]

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We missed a big snowstorm, but witnessed the inauguration from the national mall. And that wasn’t even the big news. Zzzzzz….off to sleep, perchance to sleep, and post another day. With pictures.
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Tomorrow morning, Barry and I leave for a bit of an adventure. We’re driving up to Manassas, VA, where we’ll be staying with a first cousin that I’ve never met. On Sunday morning, I’ll be meeting more of my Virginia relatives, the descendants of my father’s sister, who left New York with her second husband [...]

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I’ve bitched on these pages about the incompetence and indifference that I encounter in my daily life…whether with the post office, cell phone service providers, banks, etc. These incidents are the hazards of modern life that we all deal with by gritting our teeth and kvetching to our spouses or friends over a beer at [...]

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