I’ve been reconnecting with HS friends on Facebook. Debating whether I should put my maiden name in there or not. I did add it into the “former name” box so supposedly it comes up in a search (wait, let me test that- yep, works) but who exactly is going to search for me? Mostly we [...]
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I’m not a huge football fan…
… but I do have a favorite team, and I try to wear my old-bought-on-sale-at-Wal-Mart Tiki Barber shirt on game days. Especially when they’re playing the Eagles. Go Giants!
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A little audio test
I’m teaching myself how to make an audio podcast. Unfortunately I’m having issues with my new Blue Snowball microphone. As in, it doesn’t work. Based on testing I’m pretty sure it’s just defective so I need to replace it. Meanwhile I downloaded an app for my iPhone called iTalk from Griffin, which lets me record [...]
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Communities don’t build themselves.
My friend Chris Cavs wrote about unity & community in this great post, and I was one of those he tagged to continue the topic. I’m taking the idea behind his post and moving it a step further. If there’s unity in community, how do you keep that community thriving? Step up. My husband and [...]
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Personalized Snack
This is my latest favorite snack (sorry about the blurry image!) It’s my own trail mix blend of only things I like. So no raisins, no strange unidentifiable pieces of dried fruit, no sticks or small pebbles . Just organic walnuts, dried cherries, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and sprinkling of salted soy nuts. What would you [...]
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A post for my kids- Why I voted for Obama
Maybe I should’ve written this before the election, but I don’t know that my words would have swayed anyone’s vote. Most people I know had their minds made up early in the game and didn’t change. So this is for my children. I want them to know that it’s my hope for their future that [...]
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I voted, you go vote, too
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Lame-o blog entry because I’m busy & hungry
Day three and already I have nothing to say? Well, I have plenty to say but I’m not going to blog it, sorry. Also, 12seconds isn’t working at the moment and I haven’t posted there yet today, either! Well, I did answer the question of the day, but that doesn’t really count for napodpomo, right? [...]
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A geeky Sunday at home
I’ve spent the day working on some personal projects, while I have some time before I dig into some new client work this week. The big one is Basement Vinyl, as I mentioned the other day. Don’t go running over, there’s still not much there to see, but I got a lot done under the [...]
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Signs, signs…
This morning I headed out shopping, and to entertain myself I played a little “count the roadside signs” game as I drove home through town. There are a number of highly contested local elections going on, so there’s no lack of political signs stuck all over the place. But very few for either McCain or [...]
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Busy! Doing Lots of Stuff!
I haven’t been blogging but I have been busy! A couple weeks filled with client work, scout stuff, and trying to get my new site off the ground. What new site? Pat & I have a basement full of the old vinyl records we collected, and we thought it would be fun to bring them [...]
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Cub Scouts and Polaroids
My youngest is in fifth grade. In March 2009 he’ll move on from Cub Scouts into Boy Scouts, and so will end my 12 years as a Cub Scout mom/volunteer. Each October we have a Halloween themed Pack meeting. The kids come in costume & bring along tombstones they’ve created with slabs of Styrofoam & [...]
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Is this what we’ve become?
I don’t post about politics much here. I got into the habit of keeping my politics to myself at some point. But sometimes I need to speak up. Read this. And this. It’s getting scary out there. At McCain rallies hateful words (“Kill him!” “He’s a terrorist!” “Traitor!“) are spewed, and the candidate has refused [...]
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And now for something completely awesome…
As I said earlier today on Twitter, Seesmic is like a wormhole connecting me to famous people. Awhile back I was able ask Kevin Smith a question and get a response. Today it was someone I’ve been a fan of since I was, oh, about ten years old? John Cleese of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, [...]
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So close, yet…
If you looked at a map, you’d think I live pretty close to New York City. And compared to a lot of you, well, I do! So much going on in New York, my favorite city. Things to do, people to see, even work to be done! I could head in every week and never [...]
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Overcast
Wow, take a look through the last month of posts here. Pretty obvious I’ve had better months. Lots going on around me, and within me. Change. Some of it drastic, but most of it will be positive when all is said and done. I just wish it was a little less painful at the start. [...]
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We’ll miss you Craig
Craig Manganello really tried to convince me learn to play this here guitar this past spring, but I never followed through. Interesting coda to this? Pat took up the challenge and learned to play Wanted Dead or Alive, quite well! I hadn’t been in touch with Craig recently- because I haven’t been spending much time [...]
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Sick day
I decided to take a sick day today. I slept in, took some DayQuil- and find myself working (Sort of. No client work, but writing this post, for example, counts as “work.”) If I worked out of the house, I’d call in sick and probably spend the day in front of the tv. But since [...]
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What greed and denial hath wrought
So I sit back and watch our financial system crumble and our retirement savings dwindle, flabbergasted. I’m amazed at the deep-seated denial that brought us here. I’m surrounded by over-extended families in over-sized homes with well-paying but tenuous jobs. Extend the radius a bit and there are the working poor who were told the lie [...]
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New look banannie.com
I’ve wanted to do something special with the front page of banannie.com for awhile, and finally got it all pulled together. I generally tell people to come right here to banannie.com/blog, but now I’ll start sending them to the main page instead. I designed a new background (a banana, of course) and installed the Friendfeed [...]
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