tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82041022012-01-05T14:56:35.467-05:00How's that working out for you?Gocknoreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204102.post-61753209114568460322010-02-24T15:09:00.004-05:002010-02-24T15:37:40.198-05:00

Among the requirements for a US citizen to apply for residency as a retiree in Costa Rica is a criminal background check. (citation needed)To initiate this background check, you need to get a fingerprint kit from the GBI, take the kit to any qualified law enforcement office in the State, and return the kit to the GBI, along with the applicable fees (including the one for the blank fingerprint kit

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When you have 15 minutes available to watch and listen First check this out:Then watch this one:

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Mostly as played on Amarok:table.lfmWidgetblogger_chart_bbc91f54189d158f6f32a704a3049d22 td {margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;border:0 !important;}table.lfmWidgetblogger_chart_bbc91f54189d158f6f32a704a3049d22 tr.lfmHead a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/header/chart/weeklyartists_regular_blue.png) no-repeat 0 0 !important;}

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How to provide a summary of your Blogger.com blog entry:Configure the HTML of your posting template:Navigate your browser to your Blogger Dashboard.Click on the "Settings" link under your blog in the listYou will be on the "Basic" page of your blog settings. In the second title menu, click on "Formatting" to navigate to that page.Scroll to the bottom of the Settings-Formatting page, to the Post

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Moosemom: "Hey, can I call you Joe?"Me: "Oh, crap. 'Hey, can I call you Joe?'"Mel: "Huh? Did she say that?"Me: "Yeah."Mel: "'No, bitch, you can call me 'Senator'.' What the hell is wrong with her?"Me: "She's going to refer to him as 'Joe' condescendingly at some point."Eventually, Moosemom broke out "say it ain't so, Joe."I can't believe those buffoons went to all that trouble to orchestrate that

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These memories can't wait. I feel like there is an inexhaustible supply of events from my life that assert themselves in my memory with a force inversely proportional to a reasonable measure of their importance.Example: Several years ago I had a neighbor that I traveled with socially on occasion who owned a video rental store. On some occasion during that period of time, probably at least 5 years

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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."— E.B. White Of course there is also a fair amount of utter crap, which I won't quote just yet.

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"If I had known, I wouldn't have fired - not on him," said the 88-year-old former Luftwaffe fighter pilot Horst Rippert.I have mixed feelings about sharing this bit of information. It's not really pleasant to contemplate the tragic demise of the author of such beloved works, yet it's somehow compelling to investigate the details.

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At Conseco FieldhouseIndianapolisFIRST ROUNDThursday, March 13...At Conseco FieldhouseIndianapolisFIRST ROUNDThursday, March 13Game 1: No. 8 Iowa vs. No. 9 Michigan (Noon)Game 2: No. 7 Penn State vs. No. 10 Illinois (ESPN2, 2:30 p.m.)Game 3: No. 6 Minnesota vs. No. 11 Northwestern (ESPN2, 5 p.m.)QUARTERFINALSFriday, March 14Game 4: No. 1 Wisconsin vs. Game 1 winner (ESPN, noon)Game 5: No. 4

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And the Bush Crime Family thwarts attempts by a GOP congressman to investigate."The terrorist bomber of the first World Trade Center attack, the nephew of al Qaeda 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, made phone calls to the same row house that was occupied by Terry Nichols' cousins-in-law just 2 months before he exploded the bomb in the garage of the World Trade Center 15 years ago." Is Dana

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What you need a fancy suit for, Charlie...?(Yeah, I couldn't actually find a link with that in it.)What the hell you watching that for...?What did you have in...?(Feel free to provide your own for others to solve.)

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And another career-high scoring night from a freshman. The Boilers keep rolling along. They also avenged their sole conference loss.

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Purdue 72, Wisconsin 67Purdue got spanked on the boards, and look at those freethrow numbers! But that's a road win (and a season sweep) against a top-ten opponent.

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I discovered an old copy of Catcher in the Rye that I didn't recognize, much less know that I had, so I decided to re-read it. I really don't know when I read it before - I'm certain it was before 1975.I didn't remember any of it, though. I really didn't.The relationship between Holden and his sister Phoebe really reminded me of Anthony and Grace in the movie 'Bottle Rocket'. That killed me. It

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Starting tonight (home against Penn State), surprise Big Ten co-leader Purdue has five games over a two week span, including trips to Indiana and Wisconsin.This mid-February stretch is notoriously taxing, particularly for young teams. Purdue has nine players on the roster averaging between 20 and 22 minutes a game; Four of them are freshmen, and two of them are sophomores.Further, they have put

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I happened to hear a review of the 2007 Super Bowl the other day.Of course, it started with the first-ever return of a Super Bowl-opening kickoff for a touchdown, by the electrifying Devin Hester.That took me back to the most amazing (for me) day of the Bears' 2007 season: week 6 at home to the Vikings on Sunday, October 14.Incredibly, it was my first ever visit to Soldier Field, even though I

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Gocknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204102.post-1145255949334538382006-04-17T02:34:00.000-04:002006-04-17T02:39:09.346-04:00

http://www.smithsrock.com/Focus_01.jpghttp://www.smithsrock.com/Focus_02.jpghttp://www.smithsrock.com/Focus_03.jpghttp://www.smithsrock.com/Focus_04.jpghttp://www.smithsrock.com/Focus_05.jpgA funny thing happened on the way to the post office to mail those fat tax checks on Friday: I got rear-ended, and ended up in a 4 car fender bender.The one shot above that isn't of my car is of the

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Coinciding with the re-(re-re-)release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Byrne and Eno have put up this website with, well, stuff on it. Not the least of which is the chance to download portions of the original work for you own remixing.The site will be interesting to:- people who consider that album to be a critical jumping of point in popular music toward genres built on "tribal" rythms- people

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Guy playing "Subdivisions" on electronics (Yamaha, maybe?)

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Christmas gifts

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Funny, funny stuff.

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The rhythm is captivating.

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After a couple of days of being pestered about it, I finally caved in Monday night and ordered a halloween costume for my daughter from www.frightcatalog.com.We were really careful to select an item that they indicated was "in stock" (see where this is going?), and, even though their standard shipping charts showed it would arrive by Saturday with their normal ground shipment method, I specified

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I think it's all official now. We will be leaving our clocks alone on Sunday, October 30, which will put us on Eastern Standard Time. We will stay with the Eastern Time Zone on April 2, 2006, by moving our clocks forward one hours.

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I'm going to try to figure out how to put it on a DVD.

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Eh?

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Amy was just cool.

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Um, not looking very good.More concrete news within 48 hours.

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I just heard a story about an episode in which a mother did an adult daughter a generous kindness, and, reasonably soon thereafter, won an amount of money, playing bingo, fairly near the expense incurred.(I heard the story from the daughter, for what it's worth.)The mother attributed the windfall to "God's reward", considering it a literal payback for having done the kindness with no

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A couple of years ago, my friend Jim (maybe yours, too) put together a three-disk set of mix CDs. The last song on the "Sea Life" disk was listed as only as a "surprise". I really liked the song, but never did know who or what it was.That was also one of the songs that grew on my daughter from those disks. Recently, she even mentioned on a couple of occasions that it might be fun to use as a

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Now I'm trying to get someone on the phone to help me get the credit applied.My first call was to their automated customer service number.I navigated the phone tree until I determined that1) there was no way to get my credit in the menu system2) there was no way to get to a human in the menu systemMy next call was "to purchase a ticket within U.S. and Canada.After plodding through a few menu

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The guy can play.

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I would like to participate in a project that brings recorded music to the masses in a more ethical manner. I think that the current dominant system is terribly exploitive of both the artist and the listener. I will add more thoughts later, but I'm at work now...I'm at a point where multiple threads of concern/interest of mine are sort of converging. The link from the title is to the "business

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I like to comb around ebay now and then, and I encountered one of this guy's instruments while looking for other touchstyle guitars.Wanna see some really realy pretty guitars? Well, do ya?Look at some of these: http://www.godinguitars.com/godinproductlistingp.htmI had heard of them before; I think Robert Fripp has played their Roland-ready models before, but I stumbled on a particularly nice one

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I posted what follows in a discussion thread about the linked column.I observed afterward that Gerstein worked for Lieberman's campaign as a strategist.That's rich. First off, I would hardly look to the WSJ editorial staff for people who "have a finger on the pulse" of the American cultural tos and fros. There is a reason that the fringe right considers even the WSJ *news* division to have a

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Specifically, Ian's posting of today (April 14) lays out the details of what we have been hashing through for the past month or so. Exciting times, indeed.

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Compare and contrast:"It puts the lotion on its skin."and"He never heard of corduroy."

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Sometimes I have to give the enemy a listen. On this particular day, garrison and his guest adopted a posture about circumstances in Iraq that are quite telling.Things are going swimmingly in Iraq. To the extent that there are "problems", they can be traced to "bad guys" coming in from Iran and Syria. The fraction of the active troops that are actually Iraqi nationals is steadily increasing,

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Man, is he bold, covering the likes of Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter. When did Rod 'jump the shark'? "...one more time..."

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You know, if Jesus Christ were alive today, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be willing to sign a loyalty oath. Hence, he couldn't even get into one of Chimpy McFlightsuit's rallies. Not that a young middle-eastern man would have a chance anyway.

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This could be bordering on...stuff one shouldn't put on the internet kind of thing. Just over 10 years ago, my father's father passed away. He was truly a wonderful loving man, who was loved in return. Lots and lots of family came in from here and there to attend to funeral in rural Georgia. My dad's brothers were all there, one older and two younger, and all of their kids. That took some

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Excerpt from an interoffice email received today... "A friend of mine from Spain, Amaya (last name redacted),is in town for the next couple of weeks..." Anybody have any ideas about what we might do to benefit from having an English-speaking native of Spain sort of available to me? Seems like I could get perspective on a few things about life in Spain, but I probably ought to start any dialog

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Lesse...two pieces of news. I mopped the upstairs bathroom last night. Maybe that doesn't sound like much (unless you've seen it, then you probably get the idea), but...I've been living here for 15 months, and that was the first time I had ever mopped it. So I had the "quantity of filth" component of difficulty way up there.Further, there is a lot of *stuff* in there, and I had to drag it all

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It's all over but the shouting. We are just hanging out here at the crib. OML will be heading to KOF-town about noon tomorrow. I'll drop him at the airport on my way to work.

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I'm listening to my daughter and my younger brother in the family room the "TV room", voice training a robotic dog that has been collecting dust for months (like much of what I own). My brother has been in Europe for what seemed like forever, but has actually been...almost three years? It's really great to have him back, if just for a short while. He will return to Germany on September 11,

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