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Thursday April 01, 2010 · 1:08 PM PDT

2010/04/01 · 13:08

This will a short diary. Since my world is being turned upside down, even as we speak (or as I write), my message must be brief and to the point.

If you read those incredibly tabloidistic Palin diaries on this site, you will often see my comments virtually begging people to please stick to the political realm and not to drag rumor and innuendo into the diaries. I have been called a Palin lover on several occasions.

Today I became one in truth. If she runs, I will vote for her. I must vote for her.

Why? (Have a strong drink at hand; this is going to shock you.)

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Sunday July 26, 2009 · 12:04 PM PDT

2009/07/26 · 12:04

A short diary for I need to run. Litter box duty calls.

I'm seeing lots of diaries here and there : predicting the end of the recession, predicting no end to the recession, predicting there never was a recession(well, maybe I haven't seen that one lately). Always lots of charts and analysis by very well-informed and intelligent people.

And comments. And arguments. And some name-calling.

I'm not as well-informed. My intelligence has been called into question. I've made my share of good and bad economic decisions.

And to me this is when the recession will end...

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Sunday July 19, 2009 · 10:12 AM PDT

2009/07/19 · 10:12

This is about a trip three men made into space, on a voyage to the moon. Maybe it is about more, but that is up to you.

Where I grew up in North Carolina, baseball was big. Not major or minor league, but high school and American Legion baseball. Rowan County had some of the best teams in the state in the late sixties and early seventies and games were always well-attended by enthusiastic crowds who focused on every aspect of the game.

I remember one game which was different. A game where people kept gazing upward...

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Monday April 20, 2009 · 3:41 PM PDT

2009/04/20 · 15:41

For all those hung up in the torture diaries(no pun intended), maybe you have missed this

Stephen Hawking Rushed to Hospital

I'm sure someone with better writing skills will write a longer diary later.
But I know all the science people and those who have suffered with disabilities like Hawking has, will be sorry to hear this and will want to keep him in their thoughts.

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Friday April 03, 2009 · 12:54 PM PDT

2009/04/03 · 12:54

We still don't know how many. We don't know why. But their families and the people of Binghamton are hurting.

Mass murders and murder-suicides seem to be in news every week. Sometimes, hate is the motivator, but often it's some kind of desperation: a failed relationship, a lost job, a need to be seen and not ignored. Sometimes, there doesn't seem to be a reason. Why would a father or mother kill his/her children?

Even though we don't know who the victims were, they're someone's children, someone's brothers or sisters, maybe someone's parents.

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Tuesday March 31, 2009 · 1:57 PM PDT

2009/03/31 · 13:57

I am just beginning to reread one of my favorite books, The Priceless Gift, by Cornelius Hirschberg. Hirschberg was a salesman in New York, who loved learning more than just about anything else. He had no college education, but taught himself science,art, music, history,etc., by lots of reading, mostly on his way to and from work. His book tells his story and gives a guide on books to read and places to go for other self-learners.
It was written long before the Internet (1960), but it's still an inspiring book.

I also am a self-learner. Unfortunately, I tend to want to study everything at once. I'm not a jack of all trades, master of none; I'm more of a 3 or 4. I am hard to beat at Trivial Pursuit though.

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Friday March 13, 2009 · 10:42 AM PDT

2009/03/13 · 10:42

I am surrounded.

By this:

Hubble Top 10

And this:

She Walks in Beauty

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Tuesday March 10, 2009 · 4:20 PM PDT

2009/03/10 · 16:20

Do you think wars are only started by one side?

Do you really think the other side doesn't love this country as much as you do?

Is this what you want? Do you think anyone does?

http://en.wikipedia.org/...

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Friday March 06, 2009 · 6:27 PM PST

2009/03/06 · 18:27

I stand at the window and I watch the snow. It's falling in big, fluffy flakes. They've covered my entire world with a sort of fairy dust.

I'd forgotten everything about snow, except its whiteness. I'd forgotten how soft and cold it felt on my face, the squeaking crunch of it under my boots. And I'd forgotten the sound of its falling - like the crystallized voices of long ago librarians all whispering "shh" to long dead children.

I had a visitor yesterday, an old, old friend. Like me, he is taking 'a walk through the woods'. We sat by the fire and talked of the past and of the present. The future was best left unsaid.

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