delmer on July 29th, 2009

I’ve over at It’s Me Penelope, lending a hand while she’s vacationing in Rhodes.   Technorati Tags: Blogging,It’s Me Penelope

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delmer on July 26th, 2009

How do you suppose you might use the item Samson is rowing himself around in? Australians might think: “I suppose I could set up a little booth at the edge of the beach and do some freelance lifesaving work with a boat like that.” Americans may say: “I’m going to hook up the Evinrude Bobby’s [...]

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delmer on July 25th, 2009

Local cyclist, Steve Barbour, was struck by a pickup truck on Saturday July 18. He died from his injuries several days later. Barbour was hit right around 6 a.m., near at the intersection of Norwich Street and Cemetery road (which, per Google is .4 miles from my home). It is not hard to imagine that [...]

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delmer on July 23rd, 2009

The boys and I are back. And yes, I know, real men blog about their vacation while they are on vacation. Or, at least, line up guest bloggers in advance. Or blog a little bit sooner when they got home. Anyway, as you know my biological children and I recently visited our new family members [...]

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[This is the note I sent to my coworkers, just in case they need to contact me.] Ladies and Gentlemen, I’ll be out of the office from Wednesday, July 15 until Thursday morning July 22. I’ll be in Vancouver visiting my wife. My cell phone doesn’t do the best job of getting calls up there [...]

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delmer on July 14th, 2009

There are tasks we’ve all done over and over.  Tasks that are simple enough if you’ve done them just once or twice. Tasks that should go from step one to completion without any big problems or surprises, in a nice, simple progression. Unless someone is watching you do them. Not long ago I replaced the [...]

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delmer on July 10th, 2009

This is the way it should be. One of our Dell Optiplex computers failed to boot up yesterday morning. And I mean absolute failure… when the power button was pressed nothing at all happened. (Though the power button was happy to flash amber at me.) I took the computer to my office and popped out [...]

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delmer on July 8th, 2009

One of the nice things about the Internet is help is never too far away. I turned to the Internet when I needed help with Ray’s Mail Filter and when my testosterone went to hell – both times I sought and found the information I needed. One of the other nice things about the Internet [...]

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delmer on July 6th, 2009

Let’s see, it’s been more than a week since I’ve been married. In that time I’ve been a horrible blogger. What can I say? The wife has been keeping me busy since the wedding… if you know what I mean. And if by “if you know what I mean” you think I mean “the two [...]

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delmer on July 5th, 2009

I’ve not done a state of the blog address for quite a while. The quick update goes like this: It’s still here and I wish I had an eye for making the brown parts of the template shades of blue. A longer version of the update goes like this. I’ve recently read through each and [...]

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