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Blessings
So, one of the things that I would like to do on this blog is chronicle times in my life when I feel like I have felt the hand / influence of God in my life. I seem to recall hearing someone talking about this in church – for some reason I keep thinking it…
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Virgin HealthMiles
So last week, my company started this new health initiative called Virgin HealthMiles. It’s apparently run at least somewhat in conjunction with our health insurer. Anyone else ever heard of this? The basic idea is that you wear this special pedometer that tracks the number of steps that you do in a given day. You…
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General Stuff that is up
So this past Sunday night / Monday morning (a week or so), I’m laying in bed when I hear one of the kids screaming / crying. I’m kind of half asleep, and it wakes me up. In my half-asleep stupor I wonder where Carolyn is. Not that it’s her job to get the kids when…
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Complaining pays off baby!
Time to follow up on my earlier note about complaining about Home Depot. Here is the note I received back today Dear Dan, Thank you for contacting The Home Depot Customer Care. We appreciate receiving feedback from you about your experience at thePleasant Ridge Home Depot store. We apologize for not meeting yourexpectations. Please know…
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It is finished!
And by it, I mean the move, and by finished, I mean mostly finished. Well, maybe somewhat finished. Well, there is a lot to do still. But at least the new house is finished and ready to move in to. Well, how about mostly finished. Somewhat? Sort of? 🙂 Actually the house is for real…
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Name me 2 cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
So…. maybe I’m just not a very good Modern Major General, but I am having a hard time coming up with more than 1 cheerful fact about the square of the hypotenuse. 1. The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other 2 sides of the triangle. Yes…
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Take that corn, ya Home Depot
Here’s a nice email I just sent off to Home Depot. I am writing because I was extremely dissatisfied with the tool rental at my local home depot (Highland Ave in Pleasant Ridge / Cincinnati Ohio). I rented a 2 man power auger to dig some post holes on Wednesday night. I planned on using…
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Shot down by Lowe’s
So as I thought I had previously mentioned but could not find, Lowe’s has been running 2 concurrent promotions. In each one, for every $1000 you spend, you would get a $100 Lowe’s Gift Card. One was called Lowe’s Kitchen and Bath (run here in Cincinnati) and the other was Lowe’s Spring Event (run mostly…
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Facebook
So I recently set up an account on Facebook. Well actually I had set up an account awhile ago but never really got around to doing anything with it. For whatever reason a few days ago I started adding friends and setting up a “real” page. It’s interesting – I consider myself fairly technical. From…
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Competitiveness
So I occasionally get labeled as “competitive”. This happens often at work where we have various things going on. I can kind of agree with it, but I’ve never really thought of myself as overly competitive. This past week though, I realized that there are 2 kinds of competitiveness. I usually think of someone that…