…addicting…go play.
Thanks Kate…

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Around these parts most of our ripened fruit happened a month or better ago. The only thing  still to come are the pecans in the fall. Even so the following resonates…
The Suburban Life - Thinking Ahead - Editorial - NYTimes.com
It’s a good year for blueberries.
Decades ago, a farmer planted more than a dozen bushes on [...]

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The drive home yesterday was blustery but dry with lots of high clouds and rain showers off in the distance. Hurricane Dolly’s approach to the Texas coast was being felt first far north of the expected landfall. The first bands of showers croosed Galveston Island early yesterday morning.
The drive in this morning was wetter…A slow [...]

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I finally bit the bullet and upgraded this site to the new WordPress 2.6…I thought I was locked out of my own site…It took two days to figure out why I could not log in…user name and password were right…log in again was the prompt…over and over again…then on a users forum, a hint…force a [...]

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Pardon the parsity of the recent posts. I find myself in that strange world of being in between. After thirty-five years at the same company (yes, most of my co-workers weren’t even born when I started), I find my skills and knowledge not as welcome as they were. Management changes have left me “out of [...]

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Magnum, P.C.: PI rule for computer techs doesn’t benefit public | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Last year the Texas Legislature passed a law requiring anyone who retrieves data from a computer, analyzes it and makes a report to a customer to have a private investigator’s license. The law is a perfect example of how the Legislature [...]

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Overnight Thompson’s price per kilowatt-hour went from 11.8 cents with the now-defunct retailer National Power to 31.7 cents with CPL Retail Energy. During the 19 days last month he had to wait before he was switched to a lower priced plan, he ran up a $385 bill.
Top wholesale power rates lead to jolts | Chron.com [...]

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