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I've been listening to some of the Senate hearings involving people like Gonzales and reading some of the transcripts of the trial invol...

Is anyone else annoyed at seeing constant photos of the most recent mass murderer all over the media? The death video of murderers should no...

Yeah, I know, guns don't kill people, people kill people. Tell that to the 20(+?) dead at Virginia Tech and the other 20(+?) injured. Ho...

There's been various...um, discussions in various places about how writers should/should not promote their work, mostly centering around...

We had our deck built by Archadeck , locally represented by Hall Construction: We'd talked to several different deck builders, but Archa...

One of the two builders got sick today. so the deck wasn't quite finished today. However, it's very close! So tomorrow, it should b...

OK, so I'm a day late... Anyway, the contractors came over for a little while on Saturday, trimmed the floor planks and started to put i...

It was again very cold out for April - I think it didn't get any warmer than 35 (over 20 degrees colder than normal). It wasn't qui...

It was windy and 25 degrees colder than normal today. It reached a high of 31 (and, remember, it's April ). The contractors came and w...

The builders arrived early this morning and worked until about 4. Unlike yesterday, when it was sunny and warm, the temperature dropped fro...

The contractor started on the deck today! We didn't expect they'd start this soon (we thought it might be another 10 days), but I w...

We had a few days of good weather over the last week, followed by some rain. The crocuses and dafodils in front haven't grown quite as w...

Best Novel Eifelheim by Michael F. Flynn (Tor) His Majecty's Dragon / Temeraire by Naomi Novik (Del Rey) Glasshouse by Charles Stross...

Over time, I've seen Friday cat blogging, kid blogging, et.c. But there doesn't seem Monday Garden Blogging. For employed people, i...

When we moved out to the metro West area last summer, one small plus was being close to another Rotelli Pizza (in the Target Plaza at the Po...

Jim and I try to go to the Pittsburgh Symphony once or twice a year. We bought tickets to four concerts this season and have really lucked o...

From Wikipedia (as of 3/4/07) In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who enters an established community such as an online discussio...

While there were a few good movies in 2006, the overall quality of theatrical movies continues to sink. I've been finding television (wi...

To go to SouthSideWorks Theater, you have to pay for parking and pay a little extra for movies. For the first year or two they were open, S...

Have a great holiday season!