Tag: random musing
member name: Ruth MacGill
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October 10, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
My new Dell computer is a gem, gleaming silver and blue on the bench before me. It seems to be telling me, "Ok, Hotshot, Let’s have at it and unload some old stories and new ideas before that . . .
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April 29, 2009 08:44 PM EDT --
What is the difference between 'epidemic' and 'pandemic'?
According to my Webster New Explorer Large Print Dictionary, epidemic means affecting many people at one time, and it doesn't . . .
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February 27, 2008 11:35 AM EST --
Decisions, Decisions!
I'm off to a good start this morning. I took my pills, fed Chatterbox, my sick old female cat, cleaned the cat boxes, filled my 7-day pill boxes - one for morning pills and . . .
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November 06, 2008 01:00 AM EST --
Last night as I watched the news of the election intently, it soon became clear that Barack Obama was winning the presidential election. His success exceeded my expectations. None of my fears of mass . . .
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February 22, 2009 03:15 AM EST --
When the price of gas here in the mountains east of San Diego rose to almost $5.00 a gallon, most of us changed our driving habits drastically. The small grocery stores have benefited greatly from . . .
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September 02, 2009 03:39 AM EDT --
September 1 st again. I have lots to remember that happened during the last part of August and the first week in September. Fifty-eight years ago today I had my last child – a beautiful . . .
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December 27, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
Writing About Writing
About an hour ago, at 4 A.M., I woke up with a soft furry body nestled on my shoulder and a contented purring in my ear. It was my white cat Forrest, the most cuddly of all my . . .
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February 26, 2008 11:56 AM EST --
I Only Wanted a Doughnut!
Early yesterday I picked up a friend to take him to a spot where he would pick a ride to work. He is an old licensed electrician who supervises a crew of younger fellows . . .
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May 04, 2008 05:22 PM EDT --
Requiem for a Little Sofa
It has been more than a month since a little sofa appeared beside the road by a dumpster not far from this rural horse camp. It was the size of a love seat, but overstuffed . . .
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December 24, 2006 01:54 AM EST --
What Would Tickle a Terrorist?
By that, I mean how would you make an evil-intentioned person chuckle, at something other than torturing their enemies? Surely these stern, self-righteous people . . .
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November 22, 2007 10:23 AM EST --
Slowing Down in the Fast Lane, or Down the River and Over the Falls
This is one of those days I feel as if I am reclining in my Lazyboy in the middle of a freeway, or another analogy would be that . . .
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July 19, 2008 02:06 PM EDT --
I can't decide what to do with today, or tomorrow either. Since I am sooo retired, I hate weekends. Even when we have a good number of horse campers here in this Indian reservation horse park, . . .
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November 07, 2008 11:43 AM EST --
Now they tell us! Now it's all coming out that Sarah Palin spent even more than $150,000 on her new wardrobe! Someone in the McCain camp said: "She plundered Neiman-Marcus from coast to coast". . . .
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April 03, 2008 01:40 AM EDT --
The wind has been blowing hard for days and days, and during that time I have been trying to shrug off some reflective blues. You know the kind you get when you are trying to go to sleep, and you start . . .
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June 05, 2008 01:08 AM EDT --
Was This a Russian Treat for American Visitors?
I have no business starting an article so late, but I keep chuckling about something I read in one of Barack Obama's books - "Audacity of Hope", . . .
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June 19, 2008 11:22 AM EDT --
I feel utterly 'blah' this morning, but I still want to say hello to Gatherworld. I'm totally without a glimmer of inspiration to write anything worth reading today.
In fact I have felt . . .
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August 01, 2008 09:38 PM EDT --
Summing Up the Day
This is the day, the first of the month, when I always go to town for monthly supplies. It turned out pretty good. I went alone, and on the way in I stopped in Alpine, a halfway . . .
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October 25, 2008 06:19 PM EDT --
Are there any lovers of western books and movies left out there in the real world? Or is that something that went out of favor in the sixties like so many other things?
I'm sitting here at my computer . . .
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December 17, 2008 12:25 PM EST --
When I woke from dreaming this morning after seven hours of uninterrupted sleep, I rubbed a circle in the steam on the window by my bed. I peered out to see a transformed world decked out in virgin white . . .
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February 05, 2009 03:46 AM EST --
That is what a necktie looks like to me - a noose. An enemy might grab it and throttle the wearer before he knew he was being attacked.
What practical value does a necktie have other than . . .
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