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Inspiration Interrupted

It always seems that just when inspiration comes a calling something else pops up that pushes the inspiration aside so that it wanders off mumbling about how nobody listens to it anymore. So much for that particular inspiration.
Last night I woke up at 3:00 AM with this great inspiration for a post. Unfortunately the real [...]

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Just a Bit of Down Time

My host decided they needed to upgrade the server kernel on my box today so there was about an hour of downtime earlier this evening. I don’t necessarily mind these upgrades that they do once in awhile, glad they’re on top of things and all that but I do have a bit of a problem [...]

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Frustrations with my Limitations. Blogging Pains III

Liz Strauss, that amazing lady of Successful Blog, recently asked a question of her readers as to How Do You Balance the Insecurity and Confidence to Write on the Internet? And of course I had to be driving by when the title caught my eye and I got to thinking about that very question and [...]

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Blogging Pains. Part II

I figured something else out last night why thing’s have ground to a blogging halt. It’s my setup. It sucks for lack of better term. It’s awful. Not the fault of anyone or anything, it’s the location of the desk and the chair respectively. I’m crammed up against a wall on my left side so [...]

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Time for a Change-Blogging Pains

This blog has turned into the online version of an overloaded blender full of vegetables. There’s too much going on in one place.
Just Thinkin’ started out as a personal type thing about life at home, family, local matters and Vermont in general and now it’s way out of control and, in my opinion, beyond recovery. [...]

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I was going to post but…

My mind went into complete denial after the 32nd attempt at writing the same 3 posts that I’ve been trying to write for the last 5 days. Guess it ain’t gonna happen today either.
So instead of continuing this exercise in futility, it’s off to the couch and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I feel like watching [...]

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The Problems Inherent in Doing a News Post

I started the day off with a "latest news" type post and in the making of this post (by bantering around the news sites and listing the most interesting stuff I could find for your reading pleasure) a friend of ours stopped by wanting to use me and my Internet connection to book tickets from [...]

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And Now for Something Completely Different

Welcome to my new theme or lack thereof. A rather minimalist approach if you will which I’m sure some folks will have to get used to. So why did I change? Good question and I’ll attempt to shed some light on the subject.
First of all you might wonder where I obtained such a "unique" looking [...]

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