Category Archives: Just Thinkin

All the posts that don’t fit in anywhere else. Also the default category.

Some people just deserve to be shot

Once upon a time, before I met my wife, she had a friend named “Joe”. Once I met my wife for the first time it wasn’t too long until I met “Joe” for myself. Then we all became friends.
Years passed and “Joe” began to dabble in real estate, the rental kind. One of his first [...]

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I’ve given it a lot of thought

I’ve given it a lot of thought. I’ve taken plenty of time, considered all sides of the situation and the consequences thereof.
I’ve balanced the losses to the gains, the assets of having and the liabilities of doing without and finally, after days of agonizing over all the possible options, I’ve come to one single [...]

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Good blogging tip—Don’t do what I do

Here’s good blogging tip for 2010.
Don’t do what I do.
No, no, it’s true. The best blogging advice I could give anyone who’s starting out in this crazy world of blogging is don’t do what I do.
Why?
Because I simply do everything wrong. I’m a baaad blogger.
Everything single item that ever went into a blogging “don’t do” [...]

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Writing something about writing something.

I’ve had the strange feeling all day that I should write something. Very similar to that nagging urge you get about the time the plane leaves the ground on a vacation trip that keeps telling you that you forgot something important–like the youngest child. All day long that creature in my head, the owner of [...]

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This blog isn’t always what it themes

Not being one to stick with one theme or another for any length of time (much to the constant dismay of my regular readers I’m sure) I have a bad habit of changing themes like a politician changes allegiances albeit without the money, power and brownie points involved.
Considering that I’m the type of guy whose [...]

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Open Source Software. I just don’t get it. | A reply

You never know what kind of response you might get from a post. Anyone who blogs realizes this.
You might write a post believing that it would elicit a decent response in the way of comments only to find it languishing in a desert of non-responsiveness. Then there are the other “spur-of-the-moment” type posts you [...]

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Where did the time go?

Good god where did the time go? Seems like I haven’t been here since November 11th. Must have been unbelievably busy or something (we were, no doubt about it).
Unfortunately, it’s really late and I need to get to bed so I’ll have to do some catching up tomorrow sometime. Sorry about that but ‘tis the [...]

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Time flies and all that

They say time flies when you’re having fun. Well, it also flies when you’re too busy to notice it too.
Between getting things fixed on Laurie’s new-old car (replacing rusty gas tank plus new lines and broken tailgate latch), taking the bi-monthly trip to central Vermont, watching Laurie’s quilt shop, getting ready for shows and building [...]

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