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After the yearly check-up, including blood work, I received a note from my doctor for me to make a “follow-up” appointment with him. He told me that I must take the prescribed medicine that he’s written up for me. I told him I just didn’t want to.. He said, “And, just why?”.
Well, the [...]

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For the most part, I am “on time”. And I mean that… “on time”. I don’t tend to be early. No, let me say that again, I am rarely early but generally walk in about 5 minutes before an event begins.
This morning was a bit different. The cold got me [...]

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Today, outside of The Loop Restaurant, there was a fine example of a sports car
. For many years, I’ve heard of these fancy cars but don’t know that I ever remember seeing one until today.
This was a fine auto…

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Well, I have learned today that Queen Elizabeth II and I are both 5′ 4″. How about that? Me, the same height as the queen… and maybe even the same weight although I may be a bit “stockier” than she.
Never mind that I don’t have her size house, number of autos or servants [...]

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Today, while in St. Augustine, I saw some “gentle giants”. They were rolling over, swimming, playing and seeming to have such a good time. There were 7 as far as we could count and they certainly drew a crowd as we all gathered to get a glimpse when they would surface.
Manatees are frequently [...]

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When you go to the area where the richest man in the world lives, it’s very much like a rich person’s area. In the water ( of course he lives on the water!) area there are huge boats, boat houses and skiffs in the boat docks or on fancy trailers in their yards. [...]

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Isn’t it just something that the big auto industry gets rewarded for greedily taking from those who have bought from them? Here, for years, they have overcharged for HUGE autos that have damaged not only pocket books of buyers but the environment and even still, they can’t pay their bills. Humph! But, we have [...]

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Well, I hear that eBay is at it again and this time with one who has offered his site for “FREE” to the “folks”. So who are the “folks”? Well, the folks are those who don’t make a whole ton of money like those on staff at eBay. According to Forbes.com, Meg [...]

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John Hendrix’s illustration titled “Doomsday” was 1 of 500 illustrations chosen by the Society of Illustrators to be featured in their newest compilation, Icons & Images: 50 Years of Extraordinary Illustration. Hendrix’s “Doomsday” was featured in the January/February 2007 issue of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The images for the collection were chosen by a [...]

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During January, Senator Lugar travelled to Central Asia to promote increased cooperation on energy security and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program. U.S. interests in the southern Caucasus and Central Asia were made clear with the war in Afghanistan, and their strategic position remains vital, including in relation to NATO. Likewise, the region [...]

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