What's this? An actual update? I have become used to a certain routine ("Rut") here at LiveJournal. It goes something like this: I get all in a tizzy about something, and slowly a long-winded dissertation begins to form in my head until I feel that I have enough content to write it down here. Rarely...

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There are two kinds of e-mail users.

Users who keep their e-mails for a few days or weeks, until they are no longer relevant, and then they delete them.

Then are the other users. You know who you are.

You save every bloody piece of trash that comes into your inbox. You save meeting notes f...

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The season 'tis upon us again. The season of rampant consumerism, family feuding and driving (or flying) hundreds of miles to see relatives that you don't really remember and probably could do without seeing.

Here it is no more than a few days after Thanksgiving (at the time of this writing) and t...

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In Des Moines, I have a friend.

Not just any friend. One of those people who they're talking about in the dictionary when they define the word friend. Not just a superficial relationship marked by occasionally talking to each other by the water cooler, but someone who knows me intimately.

Ever m...

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It was last Friday night when I visited the Kroger's on Brentwood Ave. with one thought in mind: I was hungry. I hadn't eaten since lunch, and it was now close to 23:00, and I was starving. I thought about my various options...get a TV dinner, pop it into whatever microwave I could find - but I didn...

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