While most of the country has weighed in on the party primaries, North Carolina has yet to vote. The linked article may be interesting reading for some of my out-of-state readers who are still scratching their heads wondering how a couple of unreconstructed lefties like Barry and myself are surviving life in a red state.
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I drove to Raleigh last night and schmoozed in a ballroom at the Ramada. There were little meatballs and everything.

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Since most of my working life is spent with my nose in a computer, I wasn’t in much of a blogging mood this vacation (besides, the computer was usually occupied by you-know-who). I took lots of photos, though, and will try to post a few in the coming days. But here’s the cheat sheet for [...]

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After a brief but dramatic squall around 11pm last night, we were awakened in the early hours by thunder, lightning, pouring rain and pounding surf. The waves have been quite dramatic, sometimes 5 or 6 deep…and our noble earth-mover continued pushing sand around even as waves crashed around the bulldozer.
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We arrived at the Atlantis for our off-season beach vacation late yesterday afternoon. One of the risks of beaching it off-season is that your view might look like this:
Most of the time, that large tube snaking off to the left is pouring out a dark sandy slurry…I guess either the beach didn’t have enough sand, [...]

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We’re having some snow flurries here in Durham. Good thing it’s a holiday weekend or the region might be paralyzed.
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A compendium of photos from the wedding, the preparations and even a few (tasteful, of course) from the honeymoon.
Thanks to Donald & Kathy Towne, Herb Wilgis, Kerry Mirabella, Judy Ballas and Bruce Goren for the photos!
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Having just spent a wonderful two weeks in a beach house the next island north of Ocean Isle Beach, the story of the students from South Carolinaaffected me more than those sorts of news items usually do. From the reports of the neighbors and neighboring renters, it sounds like they were not only nice kids, [...]

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Almost forgot what this stuff looked like.
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Barry and I got up earlier than usual on Saturday, and hit the road by 7:30am for a day trip to the Yadkin Valley. The purpose of this trip was not wine-tasting (although we did a bit), but to scout the area with thoughts towards possibly buying land there some day.
We made a brief stop [...]

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