Hey, guess what!

Gas dropped below two bucks a gallon a couple of days ago in Springfield. It’s $1.95 at the gas station down the street from our place. So, there’s that at least.

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“The following is a paid advertisement …”

I just got done watching the 30-minute “Obamamercial.” Pretty interesting. It was very slickly-produced, but maybe a little too slick. It a did a good job of putting average people — and not necessarily the candidate — up front. But pretty much every person, politician and story came out of a battleground state like Missouri, [...]

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More newspaper gloom

Today was a really bad day for the print journalism game.
First the Christian Science Monitor announced it is euthanizing its print edition after nearly a century of publishing. Starting next spring, the “newspaper” will be published only online. While there’s been a lot of woe in the print industry over the past several years, no [...]

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Beautiful Tahoe

Lake Tahoe went by many names for many years after the first settlers came through the West and began living there. But eventually they took up the native American name – Tahoe – which likely means “water in a high place.” It’s not just a high place. When you’re there it seems like a slice [...]

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Fancy pilot

So Mike and I are back from Tahoe (which is awesome and there will be more on that when we have photos downloaded) and and I saw the best thing ever in an airport – we all know it’s one of the best places for people watching. I saw Fancy Pilot, with his aviator glasses, [...]

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Just sitting @ the SGF airport waiting for my flight – it’s delayed. I can’t wait to get to Tahoe, Mike says it’s beautiful which means we’ll have lots of pics.

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It’s raining!

So my lab partner made fun of me today, which isn’t very nice. When I walked into Chem class, it was beautiful, sunny and warm but a lot can happen to the Ozarks weather in three hours. So when I walked out it was pouring and I was carrying my nice purse because I love [...]

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Mike’s gone!

Mike’s off to Tahoe for his work conference, leaving the girls all alone. I’ll be joining him in a few days – I can’t wait to bum around for a few days. I think we’re going to try to kyack on the lake a maybe do a bit of hiking. Meanwhile, my big jobs are [...]

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Float trip

What a weekend (and there’s rumors that I might actually get those back from the NL)! Mike and I went floating on the James with our friends Didi and Juliana. But first we ran the Sunshine Run 5K. Our time was cruddy, but it was Mike’s first race, so it’s a success. And now we [...]

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There’s always the next 100 years…

Cubs lose. Cubs lose. Thhhhhaaaaaa Cubs lose. I would have prefered they lost to the D-rays in Game 7 of the fall classic, but I’ll take this result, too. After all that, they can’t even win a single post season game.

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