Tersosity

@kcarruthers Star Wars reference. Midichlorians are by some Jedi reckonings the source of The Force & are high in relation to your power. #
@michellis7 Poor kid. I thought that was your sister’s job. Guess you’ll have to learn… #
Val just joined Sadie in tub, so it was Val’s 2nd bath, and was inspired to use [...]

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The kids have a glass of water after each glass of Kool-Aid, no matter how much they love the flavor. The blue raspberry lemon went over extrmely well.

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Just talked with a recruiter who apparently found me on Monster.com, and had a very favorable impression of him. I’m not a fit with the specific opening he had in mind, which would have required Foxpro background, but I’m going up to Burlington Monday for the quick get to know you meeting so it’s [...]

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Apart from cost and fussiness, depending on model, I actually like the compact florescents, and what they did to the electric bill. At least, until the electric usage we were getting billed for nearly doubled for no apparent reason. One of the things I don’t like is that you can’t or couldn’t, put [...]

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On an amusingly related not to my consulting fees post the other day, here’s a post on how to sell overpriced services. The dressing part feels tongue in cheek, even though it’s tried and true advice I first saw decades ago, and so not me. The part about being right up front is [...]

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The baby couldn’t get enough of my salty garlic & rosemary fries I made to go with burgers for supper. #
He’ll be 1 in less than 2 months, so the days of saying “the baby” are numbered, I guess. #
What a weird dream, #
@andrewbarnett The one time I took valium was to get my blood [...]

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Out from under sleeping baby. Time to cool my throat and toss the girls into bed. #
Had a dream in which a neighbor I ran into on vacation told me no offense but we were way too loud too often yelling at the kids. #
Trying to decide what to do exactly. Almost feel number crunchy [...]

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This is mainly a local interest Massachusetts link, received in e-mail, to an Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields site. It’s of particular interest for the first one on the page, as my grandfather worked for George Clark and lived for a time in that area. I grew up on a street called, before it [...]

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Sounding sensible? Apparently it can happen.

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This is good post on determining consulting fees, even if it does date back to January. I famously have trouble with pricing, which may be tied up somewhat with self-esteem and excessive desire to please others on my part, and ironically it’s probably low pricing that’s left me with a lack of business and [...]

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That there will be things like the 2 year old using the potty, then using the toilet with inset to sit for half a roll of wiping, followed by screaming hysteria for 20 minutes, prostrate on the floor, after being told - gently! - not to use so much toilet paper.

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It’s a raccoon eyed morning. Maybe tonight I’ll sleep more. #
Wow. Got Wall-E review from Steve Rhodes & he says it’s nothing less than one of the best movies ever made, easily best Pixar. Unexpected. #
Hate not being able to remember what I wanted to do. Maybe part of the weight loss is in my [...]

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The baby was away, lunging in bed with the girls taking care of him, having a blast. Now to get him something to eat, drinks all around, and maybe do some cleaning that won’t hurt my hand the way mouse and keyboard usage is doing. Seldom had it hurt that much.

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Right, waiting for the baby to wake up, surely any second, and needing to continue on and do work on the house or something.
If Twitter weren’t down so utterly there’s not even a whale, this might have gone there. Perhaps it’s time for a change.

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As I always say, The Constituion Means What It Says. I think Scalia is my new favorite. Wait. Did I have a favorite before?
Trouble is, it means what it says about takings, too. Poor Kelo.

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Like I said, the Court’s vote on Heller was way too close, even if the majority opinion was relatively sensible and unambiguous.

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This blog is supposed to be links and short takes, almost Twitter-like but with more room and obviously the ability to make exceptions. So it’s ironic that since I changed Twitter Tools to post a digest rather than each tweet individually, the Twitter updates are my long posts. I still like the format [...]

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Who’s who and reunion for the famous picture of Microsoft’s early employees.

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Via Dan, this is an amusing, lengthy article in which Bill Gates e-mails complaints about Microsoft end user experience to his own staff, which apparently was something he did regularly. I have to agree in general with Dan about Vista.

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At least fireworks the upstairs people tossed out the window last night weren’t the loudest I’ve ever heard, unlike other locals tonight. #
Trying to figure out, besides how to raise $3000 in the next 6 weeks or so, why our electric usage as much as double starting last Sept. #
You don’t go from using 700 [...]

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