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One of the things we bought today at Goodwill was a reproduction of a Sears catalog from 1908. KP wasn’t sure he wanted it so he was carrying it around trying to decide. A woman approached him and asked if he was going to buy it. He decided right then that yes he was […]

A month or so ago, KP and I applied for some life insurance. We had to do a physical with a home health nurse and she did a blood draw. We requested that they send us a copy of our results. We were curious if our efforts at the Y and WW were doing anything […]

The day started at 3 a.m. I believe Carter refers to ungodly times like this as o-dark-thirty. KP’s cell phone was on drive mode which means it talks out loud. The cheery recorded voice said “text message from e-mail”. I nudged KP and told him to get the phone. He got it only to have […]

One of the topics Chief read about this week was the invention of the typewriter in 1867. We googled for images of early typewriters and then I remembered that we may still have an old typewriter. I rumaged around in the attic and found it. Its an old Sears electric typewriter I bought at […]

After experiencing painfully slow service with Blockbuster we switched over to Netflix. It was taking Blockbuster 7-10 days to ship movies and another 7 days to get them back . We signed up for Netflix Tuesday night, they shipped the movies yesterday and they arrived today. I’m definitely sold.

I have got to quit reading so fast. The church newsletter came today. Here’s what I read:
No One Likes You Banquet 4th-6th grades
Here’s what it really said:
No One Like You Banquet 4th-6th grades
The first option seemed a little rough for the age group.

I had an eye appointment scheduled tonight. When I got there, they informed me that they had left a message on my VM saying the doctor had a personal emergency and wasn’t able to work tonight. Since I left the house at 12:30 today and never checked my VM that was news to me. Feeling […]

Happy to report I was down 2.6 lbs tonight. I’ve lost 76 lbs (30.8 lbs with Weight Watchers). I’ve reduced my body mass index by 12.7 points and tonight’s loss makes my BMI normal. I’ve got 7.8 lbs to go to goal.
I’m feeling pretty darn good tonight.

Two of our friends have an over abundance of eggs either from their own chickens or someone else’s chickens. We have been given two dozen eggs in less than a week. Add that to the two dozen I recently purchased at Sam’s. KP and I ate a lot of fried or poached eggs this […]

bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now…
This is for KP, Working for Dell really helped:
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / […]