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Doesn't Matter Is All That Matters
nonsense
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She's A Lovely Girl
For my wife.
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I Can Relate To You
Sitting quietly with my dog.
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Special Pair
To my wife.
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Careless Day
Not really wasting the day by wasting the day.
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May As Well Try
I don't know. I just write about the confusion. Sorting this stuff out.
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Make Some Friends
Just thinking about friends I've lost connection to and how many I used to have.
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It Will Turn Around
Been away. Been high. Ben low. Been high. Been low. Been living.
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Gary V
"Your gonna die. Do something about it" - Gary Vaynerchuk
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Already Free
Inspired by Unsaid Emily (Julie and the Phantoms) and the thoughts of loss over my dad as a teenager.
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We Wait On Our Lives
More covid thoughts I'm afraid...
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Humanity - Common Ground
Just shit that comes into my head while we keep sitting around.
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Get Back To Our New Normal
Dealing with isolation and the calculus if lives are more important than making money. The poem is a dis to all the money grabbers.
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Covid-19 We Wait out the Days
A poem inspired by a virus.
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Come On Come Out
Writing initially what was going to be "what you want and what I want" but changed to come on out - found this video that fit perfectly and this band is awesome so it seemed like a fit.
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Lost in the Crowd but I Don't Care
On the edge... of something.
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Rain In the Morning
I start most days with coffee at the front window.
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Trying To Find It
Life is like a bee sting. Sometimes you got to pull the stinger out and forget about it. I'm going out but I'm not coming baaaaaacccccck.
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What I Want Now Now Now
I don't know - just something that kicked out of my head while watching some Ten Hundred videos. This guy is an amazing artist from Seattle that inspires me. I can't draw at all but I truly appreciate those people who have that creativity. This guy's personality and his art always makes me smile.
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Just a What It Seems
Another poem I wrote thinking about my wife.
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kiss kiss - all i want u 2 know
Inspired by some cool cool music I'm finding by YouTuber TheLazyLazyme. In particular music by Modern Nomad, Major Murphy and Slow Pulp.
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All So Long Ago
The circle of life.
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Couldn't Try Any Harder
Another poem about my current in limbo life as I listen to a youtube collection from a band I just found out about yesterday - boygenius. A very talented trio. I highly encourage you to check them out. Links for the band can be found on my earlier hub - https://hubpages.com/literature/Ok-To-Start
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Ok to Start Again
Inspired by the fantastic music and lyrics of boygenius. Links to the band below.
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I'm Sad
Feeling down and feel like feeling down is just a waste of time so I'm going to go and shake it off by doing something mindless like walking my dogs. At least, the walk will make them happy - for a while at least. And it usually is enough to get me out of a funk.
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Who Is Going To Lift Me Up?
Was feeling down and sorry for myself after doing really well in December. Luckily, I do believe every day is a new chance at a fresh start. Also stumbled up on this inspirational band Go Set Go that I used for a video and linked their website. Check them out!
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Tears Came Down
I had a dream a few days back with my mom who is not on the earth any longer and remember it was comforting and woke up with a lot of tears. I couldn't remember what she said but I know what she'd say whether I remember or not and that would be to stay positive and keep pushing forward.
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I am the Darkness
Hopefully, an inspirational poem whose essence is humility and to embrace this life and its gifts.
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Moment of Creation
A fictional? writing based on a lot of reading and YouTube watching I've done lately on meditation, stress relief and anxiety. I've also been watching a fair share of science videos cause I'm nerdy like that. This bit of prose tries to describe the Big Bang from a spiritual perspective.
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Meditation Practices - My Recommendations
This is an informal introduction to meditation and ways I deal with stress... which is outlook and tools like meditation. Links to teachers to help but I've included my experience as well.
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Outward/Inward
Duality. Yin Yang.
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Loving Sun
The sturdy weed... grass.
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First Step
Inspired by Gaur Gopal Das talk about using your "snooze" button. The word now appears quite a bit in the poem... cause you can always start now. Even if that is later than this now. The thing is to start, to change course and then keep taking your steps to what you want in your life. Persist.
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My Cat Snores
It's about sharing space. It's about appreciating the moment. It's about not forcing things. It's about a cat.
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Bop Bah - This is the Sound of Settling
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If You're Not Around
Just the idea that it is no good to live forever if it isn't with the one you love.
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Helpful Things You Say
I guess it is relationship advice of sorts....
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It's an Awesome Day
Simple message. Life is short. Take things as they come. Make the most of each day. Navigate - don't be run over. And now and then just stay up all night.
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I Really Don't Know Anything
I keep getting flagged for duplication cause I think I just keep saying the same sh*t over and over and over - even though I really don't know anything. And the more I'm aware of that the better.
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I Got a Phone Call
About turning our backs to the pain we don't want to face. Trying to make you feel guilty. Myself included....
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I.T. Man
Tech guy, trying to be someone creative.
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Try to Keep the Calm
A poem about trying to find your self and to face challenges gracefully. I'm in one of those positions again (between jobs) and I know the anxiety does no good yet my stomach still pangs at times. I do believe being positive is key but sometime we need help with our chattering mind (see links).
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Awake (Moments Don't Escape)
Something I wrote while trying not to freak out about running over the edge.
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A Warm and Pleasant Day
Starting over again for the umpteemth time.
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As We See Fit
In this divisive time we need to be stronger than ever by being stronger together. On January 21st 2017 America's hero's came together to unite and speak out against oppression and tyranny.
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Listening to You
I don't know what this is. It is soul searching. It is trying to determine what you are. It is a rambling of someone in the crossroad.
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John Distazo
distazo: I waver, doubt Original Word: διστάζω Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: distazo Phonetic Spelling: (dis-tad'-zo) Short Definition: I waver, doubt
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Tick-Tock It's Monday
Over the past few years I've started to develop or be unable to suppress my anxiety about Monday and the cycle of time where I feel like it's always morning and I'm driving to work.
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Even Though She Ain't Here Right Now
Everyday should be a wonderful day.
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That Old Man
Getting old... just don't feel that way most of the time...
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Life is a House of Cards
Doing a lot of thinking about the future and how much that it gets in the way with enjoying your present and how foolish it is since you can't control the future or plan for it. Enjoy today. UR OK.
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Less Dangerous
Has to be more than the 9 to 5 rat race for the 99%. And bless those unfortunate enough to not even be in the struggle for happiness because all they can do each day is survive.
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Darwin Was Our Friend
Darwin Thielman left this earth way too early and left a void for a community and family that adored him.
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Talk Some Sense To Me
Change. Bondage. Fear. Hope. Expectations. New beginnings. Making a conscious choice.
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Lost In Their Wake
I don't know. It's just something I wrote. World seems so mixed up and narrow minded. We need to embrace the next generation. They are the future.
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Boy It's Never Too Late
Laws of attraction. Not giving up. Try try again. Same ole Same ole from me.
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Don't Believe Your Lying Heart
How can a heart feel lonely when it isn't alone? How can a person feel homeless when they're living at home? How can someone be dreaming when they don't have any dreams? Why is is that life is never never exactly what it seems? The lying...
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I'll Feel Well
Struggles to feel well. Don't face it alone. Seek help and guidance and medical support. Endure to your cure.
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Hard Days I'm Into
My mom died just about 6 years ago and now my wife is going through the same thing. Death is a bit unfathomable to me. I wrote a poem inspired by some of the songs and thoughts of Chris Cornell.
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Break Down The Walls
Inspired by Scrubs episode "My Blind Date" from Season 1.
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All That Is Real
Morning, hope, persistence to cope.
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So Pretty
Channeled by Morrissey. Inspired by my wife.
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The Mark of You and Me
Love poem.
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Review: Driftin Ol Miss by Wali-G
Join Wali-G and his crew as they attempt to float down the Mississippi River from La Crosse, Wisconsin to New Orleans on a raft shack called the Don Quixote.
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Time For Spring To Begin
New job. New life. I don't know - this is what came out this morning...
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Life, It Is What It Is
Life is what it is - the only real change is how we choose to look at Life. If you are struggling... take it day by day. UPDATE 10/29/18: Now, I had to re-read this 5 years later and check myself as here I am in the same boat and needed to hear what a wiser me was saying back then. Advice holds.
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Dorydrive - Calling on Angels
Review of DoryDrive.
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A Thousand Million Words
A thousand million things swim around in my head what they mean, what it means I don't know. But every other morning they start swimming again and these thoughts I have won't leave me alone. Do I have it? Do I have it? Trying to write it all...
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Not Sure Who I Am
writing, writing, writing forever writing looking for the perfect words to express what I am And I'm not sure who I am. trying, trying trying to figure it out to find the solution if it exists tells us what we are 'Cause I'm not sure what we...
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Gave All You Gave
Mopey poem I wrote after having a verbal fight with someone.
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Alexamarie
A poem about hurt souls and the people who help them find their way again.
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Sounds Like YOUR Problem More Than Mine
I've been known as that TMI guy. But I've been thinking about it and I don't think the person who is willing to share his experiences, many of them hard and negative, is a bad thing. It's being human. We're so closed off. We have a term TMI which is...
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It's A Sweet Surrender
Dedicated to M.L.K. Love hurts but it's a sweet surrender that will hold you down while you're trying to remember when it's gone what it was and from now until forever that love will keep you warm. Love will keep you warm. Time flies seems like...
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Instead Of There Being No Tomorrow
I feel like maybe maybe we can save it maybe we can pave it maybe we can make it maybe we can take it * I feel like somehow somehow we've strayed it somehow we've delayed it somehow we've drowned it somehow we've found it ** I feel like there's...
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Fight From Fear
I am right you are wrong you are strange don't belong don't fit in shouldn't exist you and your kind are misfits. Get away crawl and die I don't care because you don't agree with me we can find no common ground. Wait come back I didn't mean...
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These Are The Days Of Our Lives
"Life isn't what happens to you... it's what you do with it." watching through windows chasing angels thinking of what I missed living frightened laughing now at times I've been so pissed these are the days of our lives enjoy every...
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Nothing Else Matters
Life has been a limbo. In a way, that is true. In another way the past three years have been a rebirth, a redefinition of what I am. I lost my job, my mother, my mind, my connections to friends – including the death of a best friend who I’d...
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Saved From 0617
Where's - the - sound? Adrift alone surrounded by a sea of empty faces. Not a soul around... to take me to their secret places. But then there - you - are. A quiet beating begins to harken. And as you come within view... it's like the roar of...
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Homeless Mustards
Daniel Mustard... a hub about judgements.
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Can't Do Without
Hubpages tends to hate poems and they especially hate this one. But I don't. I think this is one of my better poems. I think it touches the essence of all our souls... our soul searching. Inspired by job searching. Inspired but people like Homeless Mustard... no longer homeless btw!
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Until No One Cares
Until no one cares is a bit harsh... but as life moves on we all get lost in time. It must be okay because that is how it seems to be.
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I Hate Lady Antebellum's Hit Song Need You Now
I hate Lady Antebellum's song, "I Need You Now" and not because it is over played like Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" was overplayed. I hate it for a more personal reason. It socks me hard right in the heart each and every time I hear it....
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Couldn't Let It Be
Couldn't let you seebaby, don't think that muchof medon't make the big mistakejust because it's there to makehang onto the plan -someday maybewe'll understand. Wouldn't let it bemuch to hardfor mecouldn't even fakedrained from pain I taketrying hard...
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Isolation
scrambled upthe side of that hilltoo far away...to go there still a place to goto get awayand put behind meanother lost day being aloneor feeling lonelyjust isn't the waythat's what they say I'd sit and stareat the valley belowwondering who is...
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Grumpy Phil
A story about Groundhog's Day.
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Once Upon A Time Not That Long Ago
Once upon a timenot that long agoI was a manI was someone to knowI had a lifeand places to goI loved my lifeeven the parts that most don't. I was a fooland I was a kingand I felt in commandof most everything. Now I am lostwaiting to be foundcrying...
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A Not So Informative Hub On Box Elder Bugs
In the summer, on the outside wall of our house, a collection of box elder bugs group together – usually on a wall being bathed in the sun. They group themselves in big black and red bunches. Normally, such a collection of insects would give me...
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Relativity - Not The Hour
Hit groundstone pavementfamiliar soundmakes paymentbright skiesshiny flowersmountain rangesgaining powersloping roadsplits valleyscobbled stonesform alleysrailroad trackcreates bordersdifferent thoughtsgiving ordersyounger presenceolder invaderonce...
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Now That You're Free
The tides of the oceansing with the breezesing to the sandsunder towering trees. Like a flower that opensunder the sunthis is the momentyour life has begun. The warmth of the sunshinecovers your skinmelting the shellcovered in sin. Like a flower...
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We've Got Nothing But Time
A poem of hope when you feel like you are running out of time. Inspired by Boy George.
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Ebner's Coulee
Now I'm walking walking up Ebner's Coulee is this a dream? is this reality? I can't tell anymore like it's somehow forgotten. No emotions Even with the tears that are streaming salty wet without meaning 15 year old boy just reeling taking steps...
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You Decide The Season
It seems we rushright past the signspreoccupied with other mindsleaving loved onesin the dust behindbut we didn't mean it. Life is fastor at least seems sobut we decidethe pace we gothe pace we needfast or slowwe conceive it....
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Yesterland - Try Again
What is in front of you? (just forever) what is behind? (yesterland) What will you do? (to be discovered) go out and be that man try again If you have a dream time to uncover if you lost a friend find another there ain't no wait this is the...
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Sweet Elaine
Yes I know it’s time that we should be moving onStill it’s hard to doso very hard to doso damn hard to do.No disrespect to you.And though it's only our memories left to see us throughIt doesn’t meansurely doesn't meanwe will feel less for you....
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I Used To Think Life Was Linear
I used to feel like life was linear, maybe linear in a repetitive circle. That we are born and we grow and we achieve our success and then we die - in a constant progression. Or if that isn’t the case - if you were unable to live up to that...
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It's Good To Be Alive
The unknown muffled rantings I can’t make them out Don’t want to – don’t want to hear Mommy and daddy shouldn’t talk like that So I tried to play in the corner with a truck Or with my GI Joe to the racket playing against my...
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A Year Has Passed
A year has passed, as did my mom just over a year ago. A year ago we were at our height of honor. All of us including her were focused on seeing her out; to send her along her journey to wherever, if ever, we go somewhere. I believe we do...
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Bucky Badger Tears Biceps in Blowout Victory
Bucky Badger Tears Biceps in 70-3 Blowout Victory By John Beadle, HP Sports Writer Sept 25, 2010 - Madison, Wis. (HP) – Buckingham U. Badger (Bucky Badger) was in agony and rushed to the UW-Hospital moments after the University of...
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He Was Full of Vim and Vigor
When I was eavesdropping on a conversation I overheard the statement, "He sure was full of vim and vinegar." I thought to myself, what the hell? I think they meant "full of vim and vigor". "Vigor" not "vinegar". Right? It's vim and vigor. Then I...
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Who Invented The Coffee Break?
Who can take credit for the invention of the Coffee Break? Read on and find out!
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HospiceLand - The Book - First Ten Pages
I wrote a book about my mom's death called HospiceLand. My mom was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2008 and ended up in the In-Home hospice program. I collected some rants on the Internet I did along with a journal I was keeping and created a book that I'm now shopping called...
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Midwestern Man Discovers Saturn is "Effed-Up"
Neighbor states: It's like a Midwestern boy has finally done good. POSTED: 5:36 a.m. CDT August 27, 2010 UPDATED: 8:21 a.m. CDT August 27, 2010 MADISON, WI - University of Wisconsin-Madison officials in conjunction with NASA have announced that...
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Songs of the Week That Have Sunday in Them
I'm continuing my hub series where I write a hub each day about songs that use one of the days of the week in their title. This hub is on songs that have "Sunday" in their titles. Like the Saturday hub, these songs are from well known artists and...
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Songs of the Week That Have Saturday in Them
I'm continuing my hub series where I write a hub each day about songs that use one of the days of the week in their title. This hub is on songs that have "Saturday" in their titles. These songs are all well known hits by well known artists and with...
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Two Worlds Collide
The process of healing from someone who hadn't fully healed yet... but has healed now.
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I Love You Just The Way You Are
One day while my wife and I were watching football, I saw a couple do a fancy high five with each other. I said to her, "we need to have a signature high five move!" And to this she said, "No" and that was that. This morning there was an...
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Songs of the Week That Have Friday in Them
I'm continuing my hub series where I write a hub each day about songs that use one of the days of the week in their title. This hub is on songs that have "Friday" in their titles. From SKA to alternative to rap, the Friday offerings run the full...
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Songs of the Week That Have Thursday in Them
I'm continuing my hub series where I write a hub each day about songs that use one of the days of the week in their title. This hub is on songs that have "Thursday" in their titles. Two tragic deaths of talented singer/songwriters highlight this...
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Songs of the Week That Have Wednesday in Them
I'm continuing my hub series where I write a hub each day about songs that use one of the days of the week in their title. This hub is on songs that have "Wednesday" in their titles. The offerings here again contain a few better known acts like...
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Songs of the Week That Have Tuesday in Them
I'm continuing my hub series where I'm writing a hub each day about songs that use one of the days of the week in their title. This hub is on songs that have "Tuesday" in their titles The offerings here include a couple obscure songs from major...
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Songs of the Week That Have Monday in Them
I decided to write a hub each day about songs that use one of the days of the week in their title. This hub is on songs that have "Monday" in their titles and includes a variety of artists both old and new. I'm only taking on five songs per hub so...
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What is Fantasy Football?
Fantasy Football Summary
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Lost and Gone Forever
Words about dysfunction and dysfunctional relationships as inspired by three songs from Guster's "Lost and Gone Forever" album.
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HospiceLand - Superman
The walks up and down Ebner Coulee have been my savior when I’m in La Crosse. It gives me a chance to stretch the legs and to think and to reconnect with this place I grew up in. I felt like it used to be MY neighborhood. When I was a kid I...
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No Place To Land
Where are we going? Does anyone really know? I used to or thought I did. I had a plan. I had my directions all mapped out. But the unexpected happened. How can the unexpected even be unexpected anymore? It happens all the time. It wasn't like the...
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Fantasy Football Preseason
It's getting to be that time of year again... Football Season! And that means for soooooo many of us NFL football fans - fantasy football season! I've been a member of fantasy leagues for over a decade and a commissioner for most of those years. So...
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Who's Your Daddy? Hard To Tell On A Soap!
Paternity, the (biological and genetic) determination of (male) offspring – it’s simple right? Well, not so much in the world of Daytime soaps! If you are a male character who is involved with a female “player” or you are in a love...
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Me & My Katamari Review
I have a PSP. The ONLY reason I have my PSP is to play the game "Me & My Katamari". I don't want to hear about the PS2 version, I've never played it. I can't attest to it. I'm sure it is awesome but PS2 "Katamari Damacy" fanatics always seem to dis...
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I Love Bacon
I love bacon. I do. Love it. Even though it isn't the best for me, not the way I eat it. Because I eat bacon until it is gone. Let me say I have some guilt for eating bacon because I understand that pigs are very intelligent animals. I feel...
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All We Did Was Talk Talk
All We Do Is Talk, Talk
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She's So Heavy
Dealing with depression...
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It Could Be Wrong - Could Be Wrong
Worn out... bythe humid summer it bakes me while my daughter Plays with - her brother As if... it is just another day. Found out,someone expired when they heardthe news that - said they were retired. Kinder,than being fired, They’d say -...
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The Hurry Up and Wait
When I was a kid I used to sit upside down on the couch; with my head down where my feet should be and my feet resting up along the wall. After awhile, the ceiling transforms into being the floor, except you’d have to step over some...
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Lesser Known Bands From The 80s That I Love
Some of my favorite hits from the 1980s.
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Healing and Reconnecting
We had a rough ride in 2009. It was the tale of two cities. A pull to and fro. In one city was my mother and her caregivers. Mom was in her last months. Our desire was to give her what she wanted and richly deserved. To die in her own home. ...
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Venomous Poison
Poison in the context of biology is a substance that causes a chemical or molecular reaction which is considered "harmful" or "irritating" and effects which could lead to death. Poisons are generally divided between toxins and venoms. Venoms are...
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Maybe Someday Somehow
I admit it. I didn't even look for a job today. It's been since Feb 2009 since I've worked. Over a million people share my story. We of course, are leeches. We want to suck off society. No one wants to hear our shrill cries that the economy...
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Better Days
When things are tough, still try to enjoy the moment and if all seems lost then hold on for "Better Days". Because if you are like me, giving up is never an option.
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Dedicated To My Wife
I drive. Literally and figuratively, I drive. I’ve been the major bread winner in my family for my whole life. I’ve felt like I’ve been in the backseat for some of the decisions with raising the kids or decorating the home amongst many other...
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And She Was
My thoughts about the meaning of life and the meaning of death... aided by some Talking Head videos. Life is certain. What you do with the gift of life is what is uncertain.
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Taken By A Fear
I can’t write Or put it down And I’m left with nothing not even sound Hollow cries in a vacuum of an empty room where no one cares or listens or is understood. Questions circle and go nowhere to answers hiding or probably...
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Philly Fan Tasered - C'mon, what the hell?!?
What the hell is happening in our country when one of those occasional (usually drunk) loons goes running out onto a baseball field and he gets tasered? It isn’t out of the realm of possibilities that a person can be seriously injured or die from...
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I Was Wrong
OK, so I do like Google Chrome better than IE, I admit it. I'm wrong now and then. It happens. Like yes, I was wrong about the birds in Arcadia being eagles as it seems most certainly they were vultures now that I look back upon that event. ...
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Why Can't We Be Friends?
I looked at my girls playing in the yard. The “playing” seemed a little rough at times. My four year old doesn’t quite know what to make of her four month old sister yet. I think she’s happy but sometimes I think she wishes we would just...
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March Madness or March Meanness?
Understanding NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four - "March Madness".
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Our Dog Quin
It is March Madness time. I love this time of year. As an avid Duke fan there is usually much at stake in March. Our dog, Quin, named after Duke point guard Quin Snyder, wasn't really a Blue Devil fan but he watched a lot of games with me - mainly...
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Music Review - The Temper Trap
I was just minding my own business, relaxing in the bath with my PSP tuned into Internet radio when a song came flowing out of the PC speakers. It first caught my attention because I’ve been in a situation where talk hasn’t been getting me...
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We Just Disagree
You ever get into one of these holes where you can’t get out? Where your efforts just make you fall back down into that misery pit? And eager hands reaching down to lend a hand just seem to push more dirt on top of you? You confuse those hands of...
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How Do People Deal With Grief?
My take on the stages of grief.
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Son Inspired Music Reviews - Kaiser Chiefs
Kaiser Chiefs, is a band I stumbled upon by playing their song, "Ruby" on Guitar Hero. Granted, I played the song on EASY, using only three buttons... maybe a million times. I even started singing to the song like a teenage schoolgirl. Good thing...
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Son Inspired Music Reviews - Guster
Guster is an alternative/folk rock band who initially formed at Tuft University in Medford, Massachusetts in 1991 and at that time consisted of Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller and Brian Rosenworcel. They were later joined by the incredibly talented Joe...
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Son Inspired Music Reviews - Death Cab For Cutie
You'd think that a father would pass his musical tastes down to his son. I tried to share my love for bands like The Police & Sting, U2, Devo, The Cars or even some older bands I followed as a college kid like The Rolling Stones, The Who or maybe...
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How To Save A Life
Just before I lost my mother... I lost my best friend Joe Gower who was a man who lived larger than he was and in the end I don't think that served him well.
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How Good Is The WII Fit For Losing Weight?
First off, I do like the WII Fit software. We love the WII overall for its potential for health benefits. You can get pretty tired playing WII games, not just WII Fit but other games as well. I play quite a bit of ping-pong using WII Sports Resort...
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Why Do We Torture Ourselves So Much?
When my father died at 15, I think it set into motion a set of feelings and behaviors that didn't serve me well. I didn't feel like a part of my friends anymore. I didn't feel like a part of life, at times. It might have been hard to tell, even for...
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Guster Suffering & Healing
Dissolve by Guster, I think, is about when someone you love is torn and left hurting by the actions of another lost soul they thought they loved or indeed did actually love. A person who maybe once was a good person but who became a monster who...
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My Not So Little Girl
"Ra Ra-ah-ah-ah. Roma Roma-ma. GaGa. Oh la-la", I sang or semi-mumbled with the radio while I drove my 15 year old daughter to school on a cold Wisconsin morning. "Dad! Please don't ruin Lady Gaga for me!!", was my daughter's protest. "I actually...
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I Question My Self Worth
"Damn!," I thought to myself as the end of my heel broke off on the hard pavement. I shouldn't have been running on with my high heels on but I just wanted to get away. Away from him. The love of my life. My dress already stained from the salt and...
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Brit Hume Sticks Foot In Mouth By Insulting Buddhists
I was half asleep when I heard Brit Hume saying something about Christian forgiveness and his suggestion Tiger turn to that because of its forgiving nature. That Tiger could turn his act around via the Christian faith and be a great example of how...
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Dish TV Network Support Call Frustrations
On 12/29/09 I made a service request to Dish Network as one of our receivers was flaking out and doing this “acquiring signal” thing over and over. Many channels didn’t work at all. Like ESPN!!?!?? At holiday bowl time. I made a call and a...
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Bright Sunshiny Day
I’ve been trying sort of hard to get a job the last few months, well since late November. I gave myself the holidays to look for that job half-assed since my mom had just only died last October. I was let go from my positon in February 2009 and...
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Try Again - Don't Expect, Suggest
Don't move Don't talk out of time Don't think Don't worry Everything's just fine Just fine Don't grab Don't clutch Don't hope for too much Don't breathe Don't achieve or grieve without leave Don't check Just balance on the fence Don't answer Don't...
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New Years Day
"All is quiet on New Year's Day. A world in white gets underway. I want to be with you, be with you night and day. But nothing changes on New Year's Day." This song from Bono and U2 first played for me when I was 20 and Christmas had just passed....
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HospiceLand - Christmas 2008
Christmas 2008 Christmas, mom's last I would guess, as she does as well. It is at these times when we are most tested and where our character is built. Do you give in to the despair or do you rise above it? And oddly the easiest path is one of...
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HospiceLand - Final Months - 3 Poems
And I don't know how it is that things have come to this we've done nothing to deserve it just the opposite. And the world can be so unfair you have to wonder, if God cares we've done nothing to deserve this just the opposite. ...
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Hub Pages Community - Thoughts From A Newbie
I’m pretty new to the HubPages community. I joined 8 weeks ago but I just signed up and really started about a month ago. I wanted a place to dump some of the things I’d written and hopefully was going to write. For me, if nothing else, HubPages...
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How Much Snow Did Wisconsin Get?
Earlier this week, southern Wisconsin was hit with a major snowstorm and was buried under 14-20+ inches of snow. I actually wrote a hub page about the conflict this creates between those of us who do not have snowblowers and those neighbors who do. ...
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What is the best Christmas movie ever?
I have a ritual at Christmas time of trying to catch the Christmas movie classics so as to get into the Christmas spirit. On Christmas Eve, we always have A Christmas Story on TBS, which is excellent and just leave it there on the TV playing to a...
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Snow Blowers Versus Shovelers
A hub about the tension between those who shovel and those who use snow blowers to clear snow off of their driveways in winter.
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Thank-You Clemons Incorporated
Dear Clemons Inc., Thank-you for 18 years of employment. We had some good times. You gave me a chance to use the programming skills I gleaned from my BA in Comp Sci at UW-Madison. You gave me meaningful projects and ample opportunity to work my...
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Wussy Fang Face
**Actually, some helpful advice in the comments section would be welcomed!!** We have a 110lb brown-white husky malamute, named Quin, who is about ten years old. See him? He's right there on the side of this text. He's a big dog. Most people are...
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Badgers Dominate Duke Comment
Dec 2 Duke at Wisconsin, L 69-73 Duke: Kyle Singler 10-17, 28 Pts Wis: Trevon Hughes 9-16, 26 Pts I love Duke men's basketball. More than Wisconsin. Even though I graduated from Wisconsin in 1985. I've liked Duke since 1979 and became a crazed fan...
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The Best Part Of Waking Up
Ah... sweet morning... and the strong scent of fresh coffee is wafting up from the kitchen. Folgers coffee actually, just like in the commercials. It's the best part of waking up. The sun is shining and the promise of a new day is in front of me and...
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Where Did My Sandbox Go?
When I was a kid we played in the dirt. Not with a Nintendo. Not with an Xbox. Not with anything that needed a controller or a power outlet. When I was a kid, we played outside. Out in the sand. In a thing called a sandbox. It was a box specifically...
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Four Way Stop
Don't you just hate it when you are obviously 2nd (out of 2) at a 4-way stop and the other person won't go? To the point where they were obviously at a complete friggin' stop and you were just rolling up and then you come to a complete stop... and...
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I'm Just A Fool You See
A piece inspired about the news of the suicide of a friend of my niece and how it related to the loss of my father. The sadness, the pain, the lack of understanding and the need to find comfort.
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Thanksgiving Wednesday
I'm 46 and I would think that by now I'd have been able to avoid going to the grocery store on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. But I have not. Not once. Not since I became the "go-for" guy. I think I became the go and get it guy just after I...
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Land Of The Lost (2009) - Movie Review
LAND OF THE LOST is directed by Brad Silberling and stars Will Ferrell (Dr. Rick Marshall), Anna Friel (Holly) and Danny McBride (Will). It isn't dad and his kids anymore as now Holly is a love struck (with Marshall) scientist and Will is some kind...
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Laminate Floor Installation - The Unspoken
Okay. We spent most of the day putting wood flooring in this 10x10 room. The laminate wood floor that "links" together. It is about 60 percent done. It required a lot of new on the fly skills like using this big ass table saw that has no protective...
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War - Poem
fearless soldiers trapped in youth what did they die for? their side's truth what they look for they can't find so they shoot the opposing mind countries playing deadly games never caring whose blown away. all the crying all the names mother's...
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Better Stop (Can't Live Forever)
better stop better not care if you live forever you're never... gonna get there. If you live forever you never will fall if you live forever why live here at all? better stop better think again whatever's out there better have some friends if you...
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Ernie Versus Bert
Ernie: Say Bert, my good ole buddy Bert. Have you heard about some of the hub bub about us out on the Internet? Bert: Ernie: Yeah, Bert. They are saying stuff about us. And there is some question as to which one of us would win in a fight, Bert....
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Cool Footbags
Some schooling about the term "hacky sack" and some recommendations about a variety of cool footbags.
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Fat Lazy Squirrels
Our dog has a morning ritual that consists of going up to the door and racing out to chase all the squirrels up into the trees and if possible to bite one. She hasn't ever really bitten one but she desperately wants to. She can't wait to get out...
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HospiceLand - Tug Of War
As the months drew near the end with my mom there was a lot of going back and forth for me. I would spend three or four days at my mom's house balancing the needs and demands required there for what my mom needed, what the household needed and what...
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Shout Out To Coach K - Dec 2 Badger Game
Coach K... I am your biggest fan. Or your programs. Or Duke. Okay probably not THE #1 Fan but a big fan. Maybe the biggest fan in Wisconsin. For sure in my city or at the very least on my block. Oh damn, that woman down the road who walks every day...
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Business Mascot Attacked
"Ya see it was like this. Me and my friend Stu were talking about things we didn't like and the subject of mascots came up. We don't like them. They are all inflated or furry and have eyes that look at you out of their mouths. We got ourselves...
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Whitewash The Cupboards For Ghosts
Sometime back in late summer... I was sitting in the living room having coffee with my mom and my two older sisters. Well, one sister had her nose in Facebook and was fiddling about with her zoo but she was having coffee as well. We were...
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No Next Year
2008 We played cricket under the lights last night, 2nd time at night. I play cricket about 4-5 times a week. I'm not that bad for an American and in our games I'm the only American playing. I think I'm one of four Americans in the world who...
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Karlsville
I have a friend Karl and this is a bit of a tribute to him. Or maybe a bit of a mockery. It doesn't really matter because it is just Karl.
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Deepest Lake In Wisconsin?
Re: Green Lake Not Deepest Lake in Wisconsin > Dear Green Lake Chamber Of Commerce, > > I've been telling friends and family for years that Green Lake is the deepest lake in Wisconsin. But I find out that it actually is not. Lake Wazee is much...
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Ron's Family Restaurant
I've been traveling to the Wisconsin plants a lot of late. We have eight plants throughout Cheeseland. One of our plants is in Bloomer and to get to it you have to go through Eau Claire and to go through Eau Claire means to pass by Ron's Family...
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1980 - 2 Poems
Emotionless man Tell me what are you thinking Are they the joys of a world? Emotionless man Tell me what is your being And why are you the way you that are? I know he’s been saying Someday life will reach to me I know he’s been saying My...
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Paco JB Rasta Adventure - Part 3
Holy chicken! You are not going to believe this but Paco and I were abducted by aliens. It was about an hour before the Duke game… around 7pm and this blue light came out of the sky while I was giving the site an update. It sucked me and Paco...
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Paco JB Rasta Adventure - Part 2
John Street, the mayor/guy we picked up in Philly when we (Paco and I) tried to go find Rasta to tar and feather him... caused all sorts of havoc last night. When the hookers realized he only had plastic they started quite a commotion and I guess...
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Mayan 2012 Prediction
We love the fear. Politicians use it, Discovery Channel uses it, Hollywood uses it... everybody loves the fear. It makes us consume they say. We eat up the fear while we eat up the comfort foods. Now since the Year 2000 was a bust and is gone and a...
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Paco JB Rasta Adventure - Part 1
Hey Paco... I think we can track down where Roosta lives. If we leave now we can make it to his home tomorrow, bury his body somewhere and be back to work by Tuesday. We can call in sick for tomorrow. Or maybe we could just tar and chicken feather...
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For That I'm Sorry - Poem
What I wish is that I wouldn’t just barely remember The times back when your soul used to breathe And how I wish you’d have died in December In the cold seems a more fitting time to grieve But instead on that day ...
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Damn Physics!
I like to point to lesser minded beings sometimes, like say my sister. Those "people" who seem to blame God or the Universe or some kind of higher power every time something goes awry like her keys are missing or she stubs her toe. But I'm guilty...
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HospiceLand - My Mom Loves Spiders
Wed morning May 27, 2009 My mother, who is dying form congestive heart failure and is in In-Home hospice care now, was out in the living room sitting on the couch. I was about to pour another cup of coffee and join her when I heard her call in a...
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Damn Doggy Poem
Yo damn doggy Done bit my ass Waz gonna kill him But he ran too fast That damn doggy Always causing me pain Ain’t no way That beast can be trained. That damn doggy Done chewed my shoe Those were expensive! And just brand new...
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OK - No Relation I'm Nearly Certain But...
Posted Thu Dec 11, 2002 2:17 pm - Local Newspaper - An "On This Date" thing... Dec 11 1783 William Beadle of Wethersfield, Connecticut slaughters his entire family, then slits his own throat. For some time before the killings, Beadle developed a...
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Soap Operas - Man Observations
Soap Opera Facts *No one ever has a private conversation and when there is a private conversation going on a piece of it (the part they must keep secret) is ALWAYS either overheard by the person they are gossiping about or their nemesis. *There...
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Morning For Zoey
Morning For Zoey It is getting light out. Mommy is up so I'm up. I'm up! Ready to go! Let's go! Got to wait?!?!!? Hate to wait! Mommy got up but then went into the small room. I want to be with mommy! I scratch the door cause that opens it. And I...
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Cardinals Feeding
The bright red male cardinal lighted gently along the edge of a bird feeder that hung closer than what would normally be his comfort level to the glass surface of a window but he and the Mrs. had been successfully feeding here for quite some time so...
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QVC Coffee Maker - R Version
Sharing my experience with my QVC single-server coffee maker. It makes really hot coffee.