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Heat spell makes me fantasize about travel plans from long ago

Just a Guy — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:46:59 +0000

I’m sitting in the middle of a nasty stretch of hot, humid summer here in the Missouri Ozarks wishing I were someplace cooler. This early summer heat spell, I confess, is turning my fantasies back to some plans I had years ago. Actually, I’m on a “dual track” fantasy here, neither of which is likely to come true, but both of which look good today.

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Heat spell makes me fantasize about travel plans from long ago

Older I get, more I enjoy my sense of humor about politics, religion

Just a Guy — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:40:38 +0000

I find that the older I get, the more I appreciate having an active sense of humor — particularly when it comes to the Big Duo of cultural discussion here in America — religion and politics.

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Thinking I am brontophobic — no, it has nothing to do with literature

Just a Guy — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:40:17 +0000

I think I’ve found a label for one of the problems I’ve developed in recent years: brontophobia, a fear of lighting and thunderstorms. It’s also called astraphobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia.

And the headline on this article is my lame attempt at humor, playing of the name of the Greek god of thunder (Bronte) off of the Bronte sisters, a couple of wonderful English writers. I love a good pun. Although most of the puns I make are admittedly questionable.

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Thinking I am brontophobic — no, it has nothing to do with literature

Sometimes finding news online is just outright fun

Just a Guy — Sun, 09 May 2010 23:18:15 +0000

Depending on what website you use, sometimes finding that daily “fix” you’re seeking for online news can be fun.

Try it for yourself and see what I mean. Go to “Yahoo” news or Google news. Type a random phrase into the “search news” box and see what you get.

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Home repairs offer harsh distraction from news, newspapers

Just a Guy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:06:32 +0000

Sometimes I sit here trying to keep informed and make at least somewhat intelligent comments about “the news” — then sometimes I just get, should we say, distracted by home repairs and maintenance.

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A useless personal ‘rant,’ I suppose, but here goes anyway …

Just a Guy — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:26:32 +0000

Sometimes you just gotta RANT. And when you’ve got to rant, well, the only way to get it out of your system is by ranting, then moving on.

I keep getting sp*m (rhymes with “ham” and is made also of pork, in the real world) comments on this website and most of my other article oriented websites. Those are comments that idiots try to post using, usually, perfectly clever and useless software in an attempt to get a link from my website back to theirs. And their sites normally, as you can tell if you see the structure of the web address in their comment link, are pushing some of the general crapola “enhancers” or outright p*rn (rhymes with “horn”) sites.

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My respect for these chain store customer service guys grew

Just a Guy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:23:03 +0000

I have to admit that I’ve never been a fan of a certain Big Box national franchise that sells electronics and entertainment products. (I won’t name them, but their store name rhymes with “Nest Guy.”) But I learned some new respect for the customer service reps at our local Nest Guy store this week when I watched them react to a minor emergency.

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Personal note: Yesterday’s physical went surprisingly well

Just a Guy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:27:35 +0000

I try to be very upfront about anything I discuss here, and that includes a couple of personal health facts: 1) I currently have no health insurance, and, 2) I generally too inactive and very overweight.

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Gossip mongers of the world — give it a rest with Tiger

Just a Guy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:12:04 +0000

Gossip mongers of the world, whether you call yourselves “journalists” or whatever label you use — give it a rest with Tiger Woods.

It truly distresses me that so-called “news” organizations continue to tell us daily about newest claims of the guy’s infidelity and messing around. Please, people, stop. I’ve had enough. I suspect most people in the WORLD have had enough!

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Holiday season offers unexpected contact with old friends

Just a Guy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:33:13 +0000

My wife and I had Christmas dinner today with several hundred old friends, most of whom we rarely see anymore.

She and I both worked for several years at the same company. She was offered an early retirement “buy out”; a couple of years before her early retirement I had been asked to “resign.” (Yup. I was fired.) The company holds an annual Christmas dinner for its retirees and their spouses/guests. She goes as a retiree and gets a nice name badge; I go as her guest and get no name badge.

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