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A Day Away And A Journey Home

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I woke up yesterday morning in yet another hotel bed, several hundred miles from home. I only took a change of shirt and underwear with me, so getting up, sh...

Thoughts About Blogging

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I began blogging before the word had become part of the common vernacular. In the early days, people wrote about their daytheir life. Online journals formed ...

Monday Night Hotel Club

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So, here we are again. Two hundred miles from home, holed up in a hotel for the night, ahead of a day sitting in an office pretending to be clever once more.

Sleeping Under The Stars

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Our younger children slept out under the stars last night (my idea). I checked the weather forecast and suggested it. I think the deciding factor was the sug...

Change Is Good

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It feels like we’ve been here before. Several times. I guess at least this time there is a reason for the scorched earth goings on, and the migration between...

The Endless Limbo Continues

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Kicking my heels at home again. I was supposed to be working from home today, but one of our children was spectacularly poorly last night. My other half had ...

In Limbo

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It’s the day after breaking the news of my father-in-law’s death. I’m in a curious kind of limbo - making breakfasts, packed lunches, doing chores around the...

Rest In Peace

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My father-in-law passed away last night. We knew it was coming, but it didn’t make it any easier. The first warning came while at a friend’s barbecue the nig...

An Piano A Drink And A Bad Memory

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We were invited to a barbecue at a friends house last night, and after eating too much, and drinking too much, I spied an old upright piano in their lounge. ...

Windows 10 Arrives

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This marks something of a departure. This blog is usually filled with nonsensical posts about daily life. Today I’m going to talk about Windows 10. Unless yo...