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Having trouble tying my shoe

Tough week sleeping Yesterday, I had a very bad headache that was making me feel nauseous. I left work 1 1/2 hours early, went and crawled into bed. One and a half hours later, I woke up with the same headache. Since it was … Continue reading

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I’ll take the second offer

The other driver’s insurance company called me to inform me that they have declared the Honda a total loss. Excuse me while I wipe a few tears from my eye… I asked what they valued the car at “Given that … Continue reading

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Not quite the same

I have now driven a Hyundai for the first time. My wife picked up our white Hyundai Accent from Enterprise yesterday morning and I drove it to work this morning. It seems to be a reasonably well built econobox of  a … Continue reading

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A pleasant surprise

I received a surprise tonight… something that has NEVER happened to me before… The other young man’s insurance company called to tell me that they were accepting 100% liability for the accident and would handle all of the costs! Wow! … Continue reading

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A trip down memory lane

In August, 2004, my oldest daughter drove our new Ford Windstar for her first day of classes at the local community college. My son was with her because we had just learned that. although he was just 14, he qualified … Continue reading

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Somebody didn’t get the message

My daughter started school this week. She is going to be pretty busy this year. She has 6 classes at the high school, her Great Books class on the Internet, will be mentoring incoming freshman and working two jobs! We decided … Continue reading

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She should have listened to me…

I came home from work tonight and saw a fairly large box sitting in the living room. I wonder what that is? I don’t remember ordering anything… I don’t remember anyone else talking to me about ordering anything… It turns … Continue reading

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That’s why we don’t come here anymore

We visited our 9th church today. We liked the 8th one very much but it is an hour drive. Today’s church was planted by the 8th church so we went with high hopes… Since the church was near the Plaza … Continue reading

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They are really behind!

I planned on spending the day at the library reading and studying to figure out what to do with  our stocks. As I walked in, I saw a group of homosexuals swooning at pictures of other men on the computer. … Continue reading

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That’s a long 10K

I arrived in KC last year at the end of March. Once I got settled in, it became VERY obvious that our F150 Super Crew had become the victim of deferred maintenance. Once we fixed the major problems, smaller problems became … Continue reading

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