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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Thursday, 17 January, 2008
Our rig came off the ship at 6:20AM on Sunday, 14 January.
We had a chance to partially inspect the rig later that day and knew it was damaged, perhaps destroyed. We sold our house to clear the decks for these years of travel, so this meant ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
I was doing some research for a project yesterday and came across the clipping that follows.
It is an excerpt from the March 5, 1776 issue of the Londonderry Journal, the newspaper of the time in what is now Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Several things are interesting about it.
First is the extraordinary age ...
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
December 25, 2004
It took some time to get our tree this year. We had a couple of abortive attempts, but one or the other of us was just not in the mood.
Finally, a few weeks ago, we made the trek down to Home Depot and almost immediately found a beautiful ...
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Monday, April 12th, 2004
April 12, 2004
I felt like Ralphie.
I couldn’t think of a single thing. My mind was as blank as a mid-winter
Iowa cloud-covered sky.
Ralphie, hero of the classic film, A Christmas Story, in a final act of desperation to ensure hisdream of a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas, went to visit ...
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