delmer on September 30th, 2009

Second column… third item down.  The link points back to What’s a Delmer Look Like. With that in mind, if you are a serious writer, you may want to consider one of the other publishers. (But really. How does something like this happen? They’re located in Hong Kong.)   Technorati Tags: McBarron Book Company

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delmer on September 29th, 2009

That you can run an iPod Shuffle through your washing machine TWICE and have it still work. You have to let it dry off first, and each time I’ve blow high-pressure air through it. As a matter of fact, this last time it didn’t work after about a week of drying out. It took me [...]

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delmer on September 28th, 2009

As men all know, any job worth doing is worth doing in such a way as to make it as big a job as possible. This thought goes hand-in-hand with the idea that if there are two ways to do a job and one involves using motorized equipment while the other does not, motorized is [...]

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delmer on September 27th, 2009

A while back (July 5) I mentioned I was going to republish some of the things I liked as a way to help out new and old readers alike. And then I did absolutely nothing about it. Today comes the first in republished entries. Originally posted September 21, 2005. This one is as bad as [...]

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delmer on September 26th, 2009

Today was one of those delightfully dreary days. It rained, lightly, most of the day but it wasn’t too cold. It was delightful as I had to go to work and having to be at work on the weekend hurts less when the weather is dreary. Last Saturday it was beautiful outside. And I was [...]

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delmer on September 25th, 2009

(or Cultus Lake: The Finale Finally. Click your way to yesterday’s entry for if you want for the cast of characters.) Canada is vast. So vast, in fact, that “vast” is too small a word to describe it. “Huge” contains a “g” — and one of those odd-shaped lower case ones at that — which [...]

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delmer on September 24th, 2009

It wasn’t my intention to have the Cultus Lake story span multiple months.  But, um, I’ve been busy. By way of a recap for anybody stopping by for the first time: Ten of us – two adults and eight children … six Canadians and four Americans (of the Ohio variety) … six females and four [...]

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delmer on September 23rd, 2009

Last Friday Diane had a meeting in Vancouver. I’d planned on going in to town with her and as Emily, my new oldest girl (or “Nog” as I called her the other day before realizing that particular naming methodology wouldn’t work as well for my new oldest boy), was home from school we decided to [...]

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delmer on September 22nd, 2009

At Wii bowling, anyway.   Click to make larger.   Technorati Tags: Wii Bowling,Wii

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delmer on September 21st, 2009

Just the other day Mike O asked if I was going to let WADLL die. Posting – something that I’d done daily (or often enough that I could tweak the “date posted” so it appeared I posted daily) had become a bit sporadic. it wasn’t that I didn’t have a lot to drone on about, [...]

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