Category: General
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Peter Hutchinson for Governor
Peter launched his campaign for Governor as an Independent and appeared on Almanac on 27 January, where he said that his leadership would not focus on the five G’s (Guns, Gays, God, Gambling, and Gynecology), the issues upon which we cannot agree, but on how to move the state forward, and to fix our broken…
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Poem or Prayer?
I ask you God for strength, I might achieve.I was made weak that I might learn to humbly obey.I asked for help that I might do greater thingsI was given infirmity, that I do better thingsI asked for riches, that I might be happyI was given poverty, that I might be wiseI asked for power,…
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Good fortune
The fortune cookie that I got at my sister-in-law’s 55th birthday party last Sunday evening, January 22, 2006 said, “You can prosper in the field of computers.”Imagine that!
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Wow
Just as I was preparing the “Living” quotation that I planning to post today, the phone rang and the company, Augeo Affinity Marketing, that had called last week to set up an interview called to cancel. It was sort of freaky.The funny thing is that they said that if the internal candidate didn’t “work out,”…
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No cannibalism?
News this week about the Donner party to California, as reported by CNN, “Research: Donners didn’t resort to cannibalism” alleges that the Donners themselves did not resort to cannibalism during their fateful trip to the “Promised Land” of California, based on the fact that there were no burnt human bones found at the Alder Creek…
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Help! I’ve lost my focus
This excellent article in Time about “Multitasking”, and the sidebar The Case for Doing One Thing at a Time, 16 January 2006, had some really good quotes from Suze Orman, the diva of personal finance:Personal-finance guru Suze Orman, despite an exhausting array of media and entrepreneurial commitments, utterly refuses to check messages, answer her phone…
