[donspatch] 2009-07-01
- From: "D. E. Crowder" <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:06:47 -0500
#120 July 1, 2009 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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First word, from Don:
Once each year, in our June 15th issue, I ask for monetary
contributions from our readers, which are usually sufficient
to cover our website hosting costs with a little left over
to give us incentive to keep on keeping on. I was harried
and busy as I was writing the June 15th issue this year and
I completely forgot to mention that you can show your
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work on the ezine but that's because our situation has
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might decide to temporarily downsize it a bit (until our
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if I have to stay up til after 4 AM to get it finished).
What is our ezine worth to you? How about two cents per
issue? We publish twenty six times a year so that'd be
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of our readers gave us fifty cents that'd add up to more
than we've ever received in donations. Will it happen?
No, but that's ok, like I said, it's not a fee, so,
how much? *shrug* Wudever. We'll be surprised but not
offended if we get no donations at all. Anyway, that
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Lisa's blog.
http://thedirtgoddess.blogspot.com/
Section One by Don.
Help for twitter users who need to make a
lengthy tweet. http://www.twitlonger.com/
DIY WiFi Antennas. http://revision3.com/systm/surfer
Much more to see. http://revision3.com/
A web-comic about office life. http://cubicnation.com/
What's to know about a given U.S. city.
http://officialcitysites.org/
Hollywood Squares. http://www.classicsquares.com/
A little public domain sheet music.
http://www.pubdomain.com/
http://www.pdinfo.com/index.php
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
U.S. population, housing, economic, and geographic
data. http://factfinder.census.gov/
U.S. Census Bureau database.
http://censtats.census.gov/
U.S. Census Bureau home page.
http://www.census.gov/
What's news with you? http://www.nowpublic.com/
Just lately I've been working part-time in a nearby
convenience store and I've noticed that there's a
lot of (U.S.) money out there which I've either never
seen or never noticed before.
http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/
http://www.ustreas.gov/topics/currency/
Who doesn't have a bag or box of old coins tucked
away somewhere? Chances are, most of them aren't
worth much but you never know.
http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/
http://worldcoingallery.com/
http://www.2-clicks-coins.com/
Before you can begin to determine the value of a
given old coin, you must first understand how to
grade it. http://www.predecimal.com/coingrading.htm
I like my Wrangler jeans. That's about as much as
I know. or care, about brands but, for some folks,
brands are a big deal. http://www.brandchannel.com/
What does 'Open Source' mean?
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question435.htm
Open Source multi-platform applications like the
gimp... http://www.gimp.org/
Open Office dot org... http://www.openoffice.org/
Firefox... http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
and Thunderbird... http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
have become very popular with Windows and Mac users
(as well as users of Open Source or BSD Operating
Systems). Other great Open Source apps like VLC...
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
and Seamonkey... http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
are less well known but gaining popularity.
Here's two site that'll keep you informed on Open Source
alternatives for your Windows and/or Mac platform.
Windows. http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
Mac. http://www.opensourcemac.org/
I just love geeky web-comics.
http://blogs.oreilly.com/wateringhole/
End of Section One.
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Section Two by Lisa
Thousands of useful resources.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Roadside architecture and roadside-related stuff.
Great photos and logical organization.
http://www.agilitynut.com/roadside.html
Recipe search using items you have on hand.
http://www.supercook.com/
The ancient art of Reflexology is one that
you can use to help yourself without a degree.
Need a map? http://reflexmap.notlong.com
A personal finance blog.
http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/
A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as
old as their nineties, were brought together
by Ry Cooder to record a CD called The Buena
Vista Social Club.
Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club
Official site;
http://www.buenavistasocialclub.com/
The film;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahuduPpZJQA
My fave;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whs1FAkPbTM
The world's hardest game. You've been warned.
http://hardgame.notlong.com
Make sure you always have your
Baloney Detection Kit.
http://baloneydetect.notlong.com
A cool tool. http://ccdrive.notlong.com
Law advice. http://www.nolo.com/index.cfm
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 372.
This issue's collection of online news, blogs,
magazines, videos and/or other informational
sites. These are chosen for maximum diversity
regardless of 'spin' and in some cases may
have offensive or questionable content.
http://www.icfj.org/
http://www.ifla.org/
http://journal.elnet.com.au/index.php/impact
http://www.inderscience.com/
http://www.io-port.net/
http://www.irel-open.ie/
http://library.rit.edu/
http://www.librariesagency.com/
http://www.methodspace.com/
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/index.html
http://www.nactem.ac.uk/
http://www.newbusiness.co.uk/
http://omeka.org/
http://www.academicmatters.ca/
http://www.parse-insight.eu/
http://www.projectbamboo.org/
http://publicationslist.org/
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/
http://www.funambol.com/blog/capo/
http://www.fiercevoip.com/
http://redmonk.com/
http://www.macobserver.com/
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/
http://www.preservationnation.org/
http://www.tpl.org/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8674401787208020885
http://www.resonancemag.com/index2.html
http://weburbanist.com/
http://gprime.net/index.php
http://epinfo.us/
http://failblog.org/
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/
http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/
http://www.breakupgirl.net/comics/index.html
http://politicalmavens.com/
http://www.lawattstimes.com/
http://www.absentmindedhousewife.com/
http://proteinwisdom.com/
http://www.metafilter.com/
http://www.livitluvit.com/
Section Three by Don.
In this publication we mainly focus on the incredible
wealth of internet resources which are without material
cost but there are a few commercial sites which have
become important to us. I can't always find the book
I want on paperbackswap...
http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php
...but I can usually find an afordable used copy at
amazon. http://www.amazon.com/
We cook with wonderfully fresh spices and drink copious
amounts of tea (hot and cold) which come from sfherb.
http://sfherb.com
We use numerous alternative flours, because wheat and corn
are toxic to Lisa, which come from Bob's Red Mill (we also
buy terrific sea salt from Bob). http://www.bobsredmill.com/
I've purchased ink, computers, computer parts and assorted
musical equipment from numerous online venders.
http://www.abacus24-7.com/ (ink)
http://www.newegg.com/ (computer stuff)
http://3btech.net/ (computer stuff)
http://www.ebay.com/ (everything, you name it)
http://www.parts-express.com/ (speakers, connectors)
http://www.zzounds.com/ (musical gear)
http://www.pickfactory.com/index.php (guitar picks)
The few vitamins and mineral supplements we take come from
drugstore.com. http://www.drugstore.com/
The stuff which controls ticks and fleas on our dog
(Advantage) comes from kvvet. http://www.kvvet.com/
I don't exactly know how to list these next few sites;
I don't buy things from them but in most cases, they're
not exactly non-commercial either.
Mapquest is still my personal favorite place to find how
how to get somewhere from here... http://www.mapquest.com
...but I really like the way google maps gives me the
chance to actually take a look at the place I'm going.
http://maps.google.com/
When I'm looking for new computer or electronic gear,
whether to buy or just to compare with the probable
cost of used products on eBay (believe it or not, new
gear can be more affordable) I often visit pricewatch.
http://www.pricewatch.com/
When I want to check out the weather I usually visit
the Weather Underground site... http://www.wunderground.com/
...but during one severe storm, a few months back,
the Weather Underground site was offline so I visited the
Weather Channel site. http://www.weather.com/
I'm not content to simply guess when I don't know how to
spell a word. Dictionary sites abound but, perhaps due to
my age, for me the word 'dictionary' is irrevocably bound
to the word 'Webster' so there's only one dictionary site
I regularly visit. http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Wikipedia is like an encyclopedia on steroids. I love it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
As I've often mentioned before, I couldn't afford
to support my reading habit without paperbackswap.
http://www.paperbackswap.com/
Love them or hate them, blogs and social media sites are
becoming permanant fixtures in our culture so you may as
well get your own myspace and/or facebook account...
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
...a blog... https://www.blogger.com/start
...and a twitter account. http://twitter.com/
I'm sure most of of visit one or more sites which are
of specific interest to us but might not be so interesting
to others. For me, that would be Linux specific sites
like distrowatch and tuxmachines...
http://distrowatch.com/
http://www.tuxmachines.org/
or the home pages of my favorite Linux distributions.
http://www.us.debian.org/
http://www.pclinuxos.com/
http://www.kateos.org/
Then there are several sites I use for getting short
URL's when a link is too long to use in this ezine.
http://notlong.com/
http://tinyurl.com/
http://snipurl.com/site/index
http://www.linkasa.com/
Sometimes I just need a laugh so I check
out the latest additions to the lolcats...
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
or one or more of the associated sites
on the 'More Lolz' menu, like loldogs.
http://ihasahotdog.com/
So, which websites, frivolous or serious, commercial or not
do you find valuable enough to visit often? Why not send me
your list so I can share it with our readers?
Normally, when I ask for reader input, I'm not overwhelmed
by your responses but I'd really like to hear from you on
this so, just in case you don't know how to copy/paste a
link into an email, one of these sites may be helpful.
http://www.wisegeek.com/how-do-i-copy-and-paste.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_5091197_copy-paste-url.html
http://www.webmasternow.com/copyandpaste.html
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/shared/copypaste.htm
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Section Four by Lisa.
Software originally developed for the
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project can
now be used on any old PC.
http://sugaronastick.notlong.com
Ever wonder if it's feasible to stay home
with the kids? Find out.
http://www.parents.com/app/stayathomecalculator/
More and better Cool Tools.
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/
The Small Business Administration has lots
of ways to help the small business person.
http://www.sba.gov/index.html
The Union Pacific Railroad has a long and
interesting history.
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/index.shtml
Healthy Weight for life.
http://www.shapeup.org/
Stand up for Net Neutrality.
http://www.savetheinternet.com/
Lessons, trainers and utilities
in Music Theory.
http://www.musictheory.net/
How to fight spam and related web abuse.
http://www.abuse.net/
Generate and share your own "word clouds".
http://www.wordle.net/
A nice site for canoeing and kayak enthusiasts.
http://www.paddling.net/
Reference site for electronics applications.
http://www.epanorama.net/
I love the Flylady.
http://www.flylady.net/
End of Section Four.
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Section Five by Don.
Getting children involved in peace.
http://www.playforpeace.org/
Or maybe just one child, doing what he can
http://www.iplayforpeace.net/Site/Welcome.html
Still don't believe in UFO's?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T87tdVUtLV4
This is a somewhat commercial site but who knew there
was a market for antique telephones?
http://www.telephonearchive.com/
Living green is becoming the wave of the future.
http://www.greenlivingtips.com/
Vintage automobile images and information.
http://www.seriouswheels.com/
News from the medical front.
http://www.modernmedicine.com/
Healthcare is in trouble in the U.S., that's a given.
What to do about it is a question nobody seems to have
an answer for but there are plenty of opinions out
there. http://www.businesscoalition.net/index.htm
Let's talk about the issues.
http://www.westernskiescoalition.org/
A search engine for articles, research, journals
and/or archives. http://www.highbeam.com/
Government contracts (which way did the money go?)
http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/
Want more politics? http://primaryplace.org/
A homework resource for young students.
http://www.schoolwork.org/index.htm
I'm not sure there isn't an oxymoron at
work here but the site looks interesting.
http://www.freeadvice.com/
A site for modern women. http://www.blogher.com/
What's your favorite word? http://www.myfavoriteword.com/
More on words. http://wordie.org/
A place where you can share videos or images with
your twitter followers. http://yfrog.com/
End of Section Five.
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Section Six by Lisa.
A costless anti-bot service that
helps to digitize books.
http://recaptcha.net/
A cool bug site. http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740
Create your own newspaper.
http://crayon.net/
Study guides and strategies for learners.
http://www.studygs.net/
Master the Internet.
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html
Resource for the exercise professional,
coach, or fitness enthusiast.
http://www.exrx.net/
Photos that are costless to use.
http://openphoto.net/
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
http://www.freephotos.com/
Asthma, allergy and intolerance information.
http://www.allallergy.net/
Internet safety geared toward young people.
http://www.getnetwise.org/
Insect photography by Alex Wild.
http://www.myrmecos.net/
Reviews of snacks. Yum!
http://www.taquitos.net/
The Gluten Intolerance Group of North America.
http://www.gluten.net/
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
For me, one of the most frustrating things about being a
Linux user is the periodic bouts of intermittent and/or
unpredictable operation brought on by distribution
upgrades. For example, I was essentially without a
computer for a couple of weeks when Debian Etch replaced
Debian Sarge as the stable version of Linux. A routine
update, using Synaptic, broke my OS and it took me a
couple of weeks to figure out that all my problems would
be solved by a new, fresh install of Debian Etch. That
didn't happen when Lenny replaced Etch as the current
stable version of Debian but suddenly my nicely working
system is no longer current and is, in fact, rapidly
becoming a quaint but out-of-date Operating System.
Of course indications are that Lenny won't completely
suit me but I can't be sure and I don't want to wipe
out my perfectly working, tuned and tweaked Etch system
just to give Lenny a test-drive.
Lisa's PCLinuxOS system was broken by the upgrade to
PCLinux 2009. Because she needed a leading edge distro
and doesn't care for Ubuntu or Kubuntu I installed
Sidux on her computer. It worked beautifully for a few
weeks until there was a major distribution upgrade which
broke her system. Oh I cobbled it back together but it's
still not right. Meanwhile PCLinuxOS has gotten the
kinks out of 2009 (PCLinuxOS 2009.2 was just released)
and it's really nice (seriously, wow!) so I'll probably
reinstall it on her machine soon (her machine also runs
a fully legalm registered copy of Windows XP, inside Linux,
with an application called 'Win4Lin').
Linux is in the throes of a major growth spurt and may
be experiencing some difficulties but hey, having been
'born' in 1991, Linux is only eighteen years old.
It's normal for a rambunctious teenager to experience
growing pains and, despite a few problems for users like
me, who're a little short on technical acumen, Linux is
maturing into a wonderful Operating System with enormous
potential.
I didn't simply replace my Windows Operating System with
Linux and I don't recommend anyone else do that either.
I started with an older computer, which I bought on the
cheap, and tried several Linux distributions on it until
I found one I liked. Then I got a KVM switch...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch
... (a gadget that let me use one monitor, mouse and
keyboard on two different computers) so I could switch
back and forth from Windows to Linux until I because
so comfortable with Linux that I rarely used Windows
any longer. At that point I 'held my nose and jumped
in' by installing Linux on the newer, nicer computer
which had, up until then, been my Windows computer.
In fact, I'm still using that computer, as I type
this, and have no plans to go back to Windows for so
long as Linux meets my needs.
If you've been tinkering with Linux, let us know how
you're doing. If you've been thinking about it but
need some moral support, drop us a line.
Our feedback form and contact info:
http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html
A Little Humor.
From our 'other brother' Beeyil (Bill) Lanoue:
Recently I was asked to play in a golf tournament. At first
I said, 'Naaahhh! I already play 4 or 5 times a week.'
Then they said to me
'Come on, it's for handicapped and blind kids.'
Then I thought...
Heck, I could win this.
From our friend and Linux mentor Lee Parmeter:
You know you are living in 2009 when....
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of fifteen phone numbers to reach your
family of three.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and
family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone
to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the
bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you
didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life,
is now a cause for panic so you turn around to go get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before
getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
14. You actually looked back up to check that there
wasn't a #9 on this list.
and now you're laughing at yourself.
From our good friend Dee Jordan:
A young boy had just received his driver's permit and
asked his father if they could discuss his use of the car.
His father said he would make a deal with his son. 'You
bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your
Bible a little, get your hair cut and we'll talk about
the car.'
The boy thought about that for a moment, decided he'd
settle for the offer and they agreed on it. After about
six weeks his father said, 'Son, I've been real proud.
You brought your grades up and I've observed that you have
been studying your Bible, but I'm real disappointed you
didn't get your hair cut.'
The young man paused a moment then said, 'You know, Dad,
I've been thinking about that, and I've noticed in my
studies of the Bible that Samson had long hair, John the
Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair; and there's
even a strong argument that Jesus had long hair.'
To this his father replied, 'Did you also notice that
they all walked everywhere they went?'
Tips for This Issue.
Kitchen hacks. http://snipurl.com/l8cmw [lifehackery_com]
A fairly commercial site which nevertheless has some
worthwhile information which doesn't come with a fee
attached. http://www.tips4pc.com/
A wealth of computer tips from computer hope.
http://www.computerhope.com/tips/
Lots of geeky computer help for Windows users.
http://malektips.com/
Ergonomic tips for senior citizens.
http://snipurl.com/l8dds [www_spineuniverse_com]
Cooking and household tips from Winn Dixie.
http://www.winn-dixie.com/Wellness/Helpful_Tips.asp
Contributions From Our Readers.
Links from readers are always
welcome and you can even write
your own link descriptions if you
like (just tell me when you send
them if that's what you intended).
Guidelines are available here:
http://www.don-guitar.com/descriptivetext.html
From our web-sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ )
Regal theater's family film festival.
http://tutheex.notlong.com
Patrick has, for a very long time, been questing
for the ideal fast-loading media player. He says
the jury is still out on musikCube but it's the
current favorite. http://www.musikcube.com/
From our web-sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
A Roman photoblog. http://eternallycool.net/
This is cool. I want one for my chevy pickup.
http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/
Interesting images. http://www.freakingnews.com/
Steve Brodner's person of the day.
http://drawger.com/stevebrodner/
How did I miss this movie?
http://newline.com/properties/bekindrewind.html
Interesting reading and images. http://www.well.com/
'56 Geeks' is an image, hosted on flickr.
http://tinyurl.com/2l22vh
Visual oddness. http://www.rathergood.com/
Yesterday's tomorrow, today.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/
A delightful blog.
http://rocksinmydryer.typepad.com/shannon/
Seems to be a social network for the politically
inclined. http://mondoglobo.ning.com/
Consumer revelations. http://consumerist.com/
A Welshman's (woman's?) blog.
http://xo.typepad.com/blog/
Urban street art, abandoned places and amazing designs.
http://weburbanist.com/
An advertising blog and community.
http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/
From our web-sibling Jerry Fox.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
performs 'The Good the Band and the Ugly).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gp7B8WC4Q
A time for silence.
http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-dont_talk_to_the_cops.html
From our good friend Dee Jordan.
Dee sent me a link to this wicked little game about a
month ago. Lisa's become totally addicted to it. Trapping
the cat isn't always easy but it can be done.
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/chatnoir/chatnoir.swf
Where did our numbers come from?
http://www.slideshare.net/scanman/numbers-1184617
Underground town/s which are over 2000 years old.
http://snipurl.com/l70e2 [en_wikipedia_org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu
http://www.cappadociaturkey.net/derinkuyu.htm
Animal banditry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ZwceZWu_o
Our web-sibling Norm Koedkritz suggests, of the U.S.
Federal Reserve, that the light is on but there may
not be anyone home.
http://snipurl.com/l70vy [www_silverbearcafe_com]
From our 'other brother' Bill (Beeyil) Lanoue.
( Bill's blog http://ncvietvet.blogspot.com/ )
What's good about your favorite U.S. city...
http://www.bestplaces.net/
and how does it compare with other U.S. cities?
http://www.bestplaces.net/city/default.aspx
From our web-sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
A video of guitarist Roy Buchanan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z4hEjbA5Dc
A heartwarming story from American Public Media.
http://snipurl.com/l8531 [thestory_org]
Many more wonderful stories. http://thestory.org/
I suppose this cartoonist is somewhat artistically
challenged because all his characters are invisible
but it's still a cute comic. http://invisibules.org/
High definition lunar images from the Japanese KAGUYA
probe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW1mc42J76Q
Here's the Kaguya website. http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/en/
The art and wisdom of Maira Kalman.
http://snipurl.com/l85q9 [kalman_blogs_nytimes_com]
It's mildly amusing that Steve is willing to eat so many
really 'yucky' things. It's hilarious that the one thing
which totally grossed him out was human milk from his wife's
breasts. http://snipurl.com/l85y9 [www_thesneeze_com]
A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station
allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev
volcano. http://snipurl.com/l8637 [www_nasa_gov]
Apollo 11, the true story of the lunar landing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSPQTfp5vJE
Our friend and Linux mentor Lee Parmeter discovered
this cool fast food place that Linux users might find
interesting. http://www.penguinpoint.com/
From our web-sibling Randi Simon-Serey.
( http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x53/chowchowgrl/ )
A fun site for senior citizens.
http://www.suddenlysenior.com/
Here's a good site for anyone who's interested in
losing weight. http://www.sparkpeople.com/
Of Charlie Grace, our web-sibling Dan
Urban said 'This guy is gooood!'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqqqLtaerl4
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Jerry, Dee,
Norm, Bill, John, Lee, Randi and Dan.
Last word, from Lisa:
Well, apparently I've found a recession-proof
job; housekeeping. It appears people will always
need their houses, apartments, rental units,
vacation homes, etc. cleaned. I'm taking on
all the work I can handle. Since the job is
quite strenuous, I'm thinking ahead to the day
when much of my job will be administrative.
Gee...I wonder where I can find out more...
'Til next time,
Lisa
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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