Dr Wingnut

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  • Reasonable

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    The reasonable man encounters circumstances and adapts himself to them.  The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt circumstances to himself.  All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw

  • Merry Christmas

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    Just because the doctor is a curmudgeon, don’t think for one minute that he doesn’t love Christmas.  If fact he has been known to dress up as the Jolly Old Elf, when necessary, to help out a friend as demonstrated by this picture taken in 2002.

  • Christmas With Louise

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    As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas.  He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them.  What they say about Santa checking the list twice must be true because every Christmas morning, although Jay’s kids’ stockings were overflowed, his poor pantyhose hung…

  • Pet Art Grooming

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    Last month, on Thanksgiving weekend, Jill and I went to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to see some of the special exhibits that were on display.  We stopped into the gift shop, and Jill showed me a book of photographs of cats, Why Paint Cats, that people had painted in all sorts of interesting ways,…

  • Congratulations Charles

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    My mentee, Charles Lugemwa completed his Master of Science Degree in Software Engineering.  After three long years away from his wife and son in Uganda, he is now home with his family.  It was very rewarding to become friends with someone from so far away, and with such a different background from my own.

  • Only in America

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    Only in ChinaOnly in HawaiiOnly in IndiaOnly in MexicoOnly in TexasOnly in ThailandOnly in Americavia email from John Treworgy, Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:50:00 -0500

  • The Winter Solistice and the Festival of Light

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    Merrimac is a small town on the fringes of the suburban Boston commute.  Its roots, however, are firmly in rural farming as we snuggled up against the small towns at the border of New Hampshire.But we do have our own electric company; The Merrimac Municipal Power and Light Authority. It is my understanding that, not…