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A stray thought – or four

Published on November 20, 2008

Seen in a post in a forum that I read: 1 day of coal or 364 days of fun?   I’ll take my chances!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m on the Dell mailing list, having bought 2 or 3 desktop units, one laptop – and a desktop for my son from them.  And almost every damn day, there’s an […]


The price of Gas

Published on November 19, 2008

For a good while, I was following the price of fuel for our vehicles here, as it climbed and climbed.  At one point I was paying well over $4. a gallon.  This was in the spring and early summer, when most folks here are planning vacations, looking forward to outings with their families, going to […]


A Time to Bake

Published on November 18, 2008

Several posts now have been about the current financial problems.  The result of all this reading is, well, that I don’t really want to read about it for a while.  Worrying is unlikely to help.  Not much else I can do about it. Worked last night, the evening shift, because someone was out ill, then […]