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Despite the cost of living, it remains popular
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Just got back from my Saturday morning run to King Soopers; $27 in gas and $111.70 ($93.43 after coupons) in groceries. Gas was $0.50 off thanks to grocery points, so…
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Music
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Music is a pretty large part of my life, which is one of the reasons good reproduction of it has been so important to me over the years… I’ve always…
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‘Burger Helper
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It’s been a long time since I’ve made Hamburger Helper… In fact, the last time was probably back when I was in the Navy and living in New London –…
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Book Report
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Back in August I decided to take on the challenge of re-reading / reading the entire Xanth Series by Piers Anthony. In January I was most of the way through…
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Update
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Back on march 31st, we had a bit of a fire nearby… A fire that caused about a dozen homes to be evacuated while the local fire department spent most…
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Mixtapes
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If you’ve ever wondered what it was like being in Highschool in the mid-80’s – here’s the musical version: “Mixtapes” by Moonrunner83 – featuring N8TVS Waking up in the middle…
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Ance-story
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On a lark, this weekend I was engaged in one of the traditional pastimes of “old people” – the Family Tree. In short, like most things with my life, it’s…
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Breaking And Entering
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This morning at 0500 I got a text from my CFO asking if I was up – and of course I was because 0500 is when I start the day……
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Disgruntled
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In my continuing analysis of life in the idiocracy timeline, today I present another grocery run… A few variables: The above is Total? $82.52 ($77.63 after coupons) When the tech…
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Audit ALL the things!
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You can tell things are getting tight economically by the number of organizations shaking down my company for loose change right now. This month started with a tax audit by…
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Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get
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A little return to winter here today, so here’s a picture for the snow deprived out there: I’m also testing the post template I whipped up to make posting more…
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Update
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Took the 300 over to the dealership to take care of a TSB… Apparently a few 2022 cars have flakey tire pressure sensors and people are too stupid these days…
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Space
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I’ve always been into ‘space stuff’, so I tend to always have an eye on whatever the new space-thing is… And today the new space-thing was SpaceX’s test of the…
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Wild Life
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Some new residents out in the forest in front of my place… Wild turkeys. Potato pictures because I was zoomed in quite a bit on my phone as to not…
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April showers
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Yesterday it was 81 degrees. Today it is: Springtime in the Rockies. Listening to “Love Game” by Timecop1983
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That one time…
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Story time! Back when I was in the Navy I did a lot of scuba training – for obvious reasons… That whole submarine, underwater, living near the ocean thing. Anyway,…
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Dystopia
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The 80’s were a pretty wild time, and despite the rainbows and day-glow the decade had a bit of a dystopian undercurrent that showed up in the pop culture of…
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In case of fire, yell “Fire!”
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Had a little excitement in my neighborhood this afternoon in the form of a small wildfire in that wooded area in front of my house. I was working from home…
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Ordinary World
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I was listening to Space Radio this morning on the way into the office and Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World” began playing… It’s a very poignant song and one of my…