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The curse of “Just Wherever”

Friday, November 11th, 2011

During Kylene’s extended bed-rest we had a lot of help from amazing family members who graciously blessed us by helping around the house and with the kids all day. This kept me from having to take FMLA, or from having to hire help in for Kylene — either of which would have been a great [...]

Ron Paul Money Bomb TOMORROW: Why I contribute to political campaigns

Friday, August 19th, 2011

About four years ago I decided that if global corporations and lobbyist groups from out-of-state can support and donate to political campaigns in my area, then about the last hope I have of being represented is by using my dollars to vote as well. If I can’t get representation from my local district (which I won’t), then I ought to find a district where there is a representative who has a shot at winning that -will- represent me — even if I don’t live there — because I’m still subjected to laws made by that representative body.

Really? Again? Oh Come On…

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

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Civ 3 Complete Universal Binary Update : FAIL

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

So, I upgraded my iMac (mid 2007 core 2 duo) to OS X Lion this weekend. My old Hard Drive was in the process of failing (SMART errors causing each block written to be ECCed, making disk IO ludicrously SLOW) so I burnt the downloaded .dmg (it’s in the Package Contents) to a DVD, upgraded [...]