The Love of My Life

I am obviously all caught up with my work. Well, for the moment anyway. I have been exceptionally busy here at work and at home that I haven’t had much time to blog much until today. So, it is time that I expand about where I am, and to journal a bit about the love [...]

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The Lego Maniac Reaches a New Threshold

Do you remember the old commercial with the line “Zach, Zach….he’s a Lego maniac . . .”? Well, my son’s name is Zach and I periodically call him the Lego maniac. However, that Lego maniac turned 16 back in June, and he is no longer into Legos. Now, conscious or not, he is really into [...]

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Chief Illiniwek returns? WOW!!

Our local newspaper, the State Journal-Register, had a couple of items in the opinion section of today’s paper and online of significant interest, one was the political cartoon by Chris Britt and the other was the paper’s opinion called “Our Opinion.” Both pieces express displeasure about Chief Illiniwek.
If you ever wondered what the big deal [...]

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Proud to be an American, finally

What an amazingly beautiful morning. There is such calm and peace in the air. The whole world, maybe even the entire Universe, seems mellow.
I don’t really know why, but I suspect that it has something to do with Barack Obama being elected as the President of the United States of America (CNN) (MSNBC) (Fox News) [...]

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I Baracked the Vote

Barack the vote, Barack the vote baby
Barack the vote, don’t tip the vote over (to McCain)
Barack the vote, Barack the vote baby
Barack the vote…………………
At around 7:45am this morning, I cast my vote for Barack Obama. I am sure that is no surprise. What I found troubling, however, was the way votes were cast. I did [...]

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