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You’ll never believe it, but my folks got a kitten while they were in town helping with my sisters garage sale a couple of weekends back. We were driving around town after the garage sale, collecting all the signs that my sister posted around town. As we were driving back home, my sister and mom [...]

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Well I tried to upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.8 and it didn’t go well…..pages not loading, scripts not working, plug-ins stalling. I ended up having to re-install wordpress 2.7.1, just to get things working again.
It looks like they might not have gotten all the kinks out of the beta releases for 2.8 (which I thought [...]

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I’m taking a break this weekend for a little R&R…..yeah just kidding. I’ll be busting my ass most of the weekend helping out my sis with her garage sale and general repairs around her house. But don’t worry I do have a couple of posts in the pipeline that I’m wrapping up and will post [...]

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I was out of town for all of Memorial Day and didn’t get back into town until 11pm on Monday night. So here are some snacks until the next post in a couple of days.
It ended up raining on and off from Sunday to Wednesday, so it looks like the rain killed off more of [...]

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This is just a quick update; on the behind the scenes stuff going on here. I’ve been trying to put out a couple of posts a week, with one of the posts being of greater length then the others, so that has been going smoothly. Right now I currently have about 15 posts in the [...]

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Last Friday was a beautiful day, so I thought that it would be a great day to grill out. Last week I had placed two packages of chicken thighs in the refrigerator to defrost. I personally like to use the slow defrost method, instead of a rapid method in cold water or the countertop. To [...]

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More French Workers Kidnap Factory Bosses – Manufacturing.net
Obama’s Spending vs Obama’s Spending Cuts in Pictures – The Heritage Foundation
Monsanto Sues Germany Over Corn Ban – Manufacturing.net
Harrison Ford Joins Private Pilots Against User Fees – Airport Business
Self-Assembled Nanowires – Product Design & Development
Decline in Trade Impacts L.A. Basin’s Industrial Sector – LoopNet
Brooklyn’s Starrett City Aims for [...]

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As an homage to Dr. Charles W. White’s “Visions” class, here is the first part of many parts of the “river of information” that I found interesting this week.
Chicago Legislators Get a Taste of the Worst of Transit System – Mass Transit

UAW Urges Members To Lobby Obama – Manufacturing Net

3 more states add deposits on [...]

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I’m heading down to Ottumwa for Easter weekend. I’ll post more gardening and cooking stuff next week. Especially an update on the seedlings, since I ended up killing some of the flower seedlings from over watering.
Hope everyone has a safe and happy Easter.
Later

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I had this whole idea a while back of what to do with this blog. But since it never materialized. I’m going to go in a totally different direction, and use this blog to post all my gardening stuff and cooking experiments instead. Enjoy.

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