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Entries from July 2003

My feat for today

July 30th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Success is mine! Today I grabbed the piano book off the shelf that I have not been able to conquer. It is music by Michael Nyman from the movie ‘The Piano’. Hard stuff. I have not touched it but once or twice since I bought it a year ago. I […]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Stupidity Abounds

July 29th, 2003 · No Comments

Argh! I just saw a news story about South Dakota’s new ‘free’ prescription card for seniors. The story noted that the card offered the smallest savings among most other prescription savings plans. A pharmacist was then interviewed who stated that (paraphrased) ’since the state doesn’t give them more cash, they can’t offer […]

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Tags: Rant

Fence, mice, and other things

July 29th, 2003 · No Comments

I fixed fence today. I drove the steel posts in and everything. How very rural of me, don’t you think?
In the last two weeks, I have captured seven mice in my room. Seven mice in a 10×15 foot area. For the card-carrying PETA members out there–no, I didn’t use live traps. […]

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Ponderings

July 26th, 2003 · No Comments

What if there are more galaxies than ours? Suppose there are Snickers, Babe Ruth, and Almond Joy galaxies out there, in addition to our little Milky Way. Each is God’s little experiment. Maybe He tweaked each establishment just a little — perhaps improving each time, perhaps not.
Like a dutiful scientist, […]

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Public Apology

July 25th, 2003 · No Comments

I, Nicole, publicly apologize for being a weblog delinquent. In my defense, I have been to Texas and back in the last week. I apologize for buzzing through Vermillion yesterday and not stopping although I was in town for a meager 10 1/2 minutes. Next, I apologize for having achieved a new […]

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Random thoughts for today

July 15th, 2003 · 3 Comments

I really don’t understand mall walkers. Why don’t they get out and enjoy the great outdoors? This would only happen in America. We’re the only place with enough space for a LONG mall. Elsewhere one might get a hella workout running up and down steps.
Poor Barry Zito. He pitched too […]

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Tags: Random

And my favorite person today is…

July 15th, 2003 · 1 Comment

This is a big shout out to Tony. Yea, I don’t really know him, but I do know that he helped me fix the last major problem with this site–related to browser compatibility. So, for all you wretched people who insist on using IE, it should look OK now.
Oh, and visit Tony’s sites […]

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