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Posts Tagged ‘ODD thoughts’

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  • HONK EM DAD

    Friday, July 23rd, 2010

    My son was emphatic, his patience growing thin at the slowpoke ahead of us. Traffic was thick and blowing a horn would do little good but that cuts no ice with the young. I think he may have wanted to just hear the horn. This trait repeatedly surfaced over the years. When I first started using a cane he got a big squeeze horn and attached it. I couldn't really use it since I only had one useful hand. Later when I was confined to a wheelchair he complained about the wimpy horn on the chair. If I listened to my son he would have installed a big aah-ooga horn.

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  • Norton Computer Attack

    Monday, March 29th, 2010

    Norton virus attack

    This post is not a story I normaly post because my Internet Service Provider (Comcast) changed from a McAfee virus detection program to Norton. I thought VISTA was a piece of s**t but Norton is even worse. After installing Norton my computer runs markedly slower which should have been my first clue but I persevered. I shouldn't have.

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  • BAG LADY

    Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

    baglady

    Sometimes you see or read things that just make you wonder. Not too long ago I read an article in our local paper about a bag lady in a nearby town that was found dead. Apparently she was a well know figure in the town and the paper had a short biography of her life that struck a tragic cord in me.

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