Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Everyone!
A few years ago, when I started this blog, my intention was to compose regular updates as things happened and then, at Christmas or New Years, simply send out greetings and point folks to those blog entries to let them know what had happened over the past year. Yeah, you can see how well that has worked!
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After the Dig
The Deobald Hacienda – December 23, 2009
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Considering that I haven’t done an update in quite a while, here are some highlights from the past two or so years …
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December 24th, 2009
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When you reach a certain age, you just don’t have to pull punches any more. I laughed until my throat was sore.
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November 29th, 2008
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Sitting for nine hours in Terminal 4 gives a person the luxury to do silly things, like tally the frequency of flights out of Heathrow.
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July 4th, 2008
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Getting sleep on an airplane shouldn’t be this hard.
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July 3rd, 2008
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In an idle moment, I stumbled upon this quote from JFK on wikiquote.org: “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
That got me thinking.
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December 20th, 2007
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Tonight on the news another international health study reveals that body weight is not only a determinant – or least correlative – of such ailments as heart failure, other cardio-vascular diseases, and diabetes; it is also connected to incidence of cancer.
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October 31st, 2007
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Well, it’s a bluejay, actually. And it’s on the deck, but that’s quibbling.
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December 3rd, 2006
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