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We finally bit the bullet (with the help of our Recovery-Act-fueled welfare check tax “refund”) and bought a High Definition TV.  One of the things that influenced this decision was that we were tired of being able to see only 2/3 of almost every show.  (The other reason is that our old TV decided to [...]

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Trick-or-Treating has died down now at the house.  Actually, the doorbell just rang as I was typing that first sentence, but it’s after 8:30 p.m., we have unplugged the orange Halloween lights on the porch, turned off the porch light and the other lights on the front of the house, thus signalling that the candy [...]

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There.  That got your attention, didn’t it?  Well, I saw an example of it last night.
Job #2, as many of you know, is at a restaurant.  I work three shifts a week, and whereas I was a delivery person last go-around, this time I am up front most of the time:  running the register, greeting [...]

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Did I spell that correctly?
Things have been pretty heavy around here for the past several days.  Dealing with a lot of things.  Sorry about the paucity of blogitude on here lately.  Thank you so much for those of you who have written to inquire how we are doing.  I appreciate it.  I appreciate you.  And [...]

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From my mini-feed the other day:
“John is improving their vocabulary!”
Do they get chimps to write this stuff or something?

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Musicians who really don’t need to practice, still practice.
Those who really, really need to practice, don’t practice.

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I have to do this every once in a while.? It doesn’t do any good, but I just have to say this.
OK, America (these are all things I’ve heard on radio or TV in the past week):
It’s “cut and dried,” not “cut and dry.”? As in flowers that have been cut and dried.? Or beef [...]

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Oh, the delights of the homeschooling crowd when you’re the only Reformed people in the crowd.
First there was the mom who told my son that J. K. Rowling had demons in her house that she talks to regularly.  She told me she ‘read this in an interview’.  I asked her to send me a copy.  [...]

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Is it a “telepone”? No, it’s a telephone.
So it’s not “dip-theria,” and it’s not “dip-thong” either. Diphtheria. Diphthong. Look at it.
The same goes for ophthalmology and ophthalmologist.? Oph-thal-mol-o-gy.? Oph-thal-mol-o-gist.? There is no such thing as an “optomologist.”
Thank you.

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Our local area is served by an outfit called Suddenlink. We don’t get bupkes. We had digital cable when we first moved here (mainly because we had it in Mississippi–with Comcast–and just signed up for the same thing here), but we dropped it because the number of channels was ridiculous for what we [...]

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