Category: life
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: dear sir or madam :
If I was a machinist, a truck driver, or a welder, I’d have my pick of jobs. Even in this burg, skilled labor positions are readily available. Oh, and anything to do with healthcare — RNs, sonographers, radiology techs. They can write their own tickets. A writer? Not so much. Nobody, and I mean nobody,…
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: nothing is impossible :
Really, nothing. And I can prove it: See? Cartoons can teach us a lot, if we pay attention. There’s many a life lesson to be learned at the knee of Popeye and Daffy Duck and Yogi Bear and Road Runner; perseverance being chief among them. Keep that in mind the next time you fall short…
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: you can hear it ticking :
That thing on your nightstand? That’s not an alarm clock, it’s a miniature terrorist, a tightly wound package of pandemonium and chaos.We all have one, although none of us like them. In fact, alarm clocks may well be the most disliked of the small home appliances. Right now, at this very second, one is ringing…
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: duck and cover :
Heads up, a six-ton satellite the size of a double-wide is headed our way. But stay calm, NASA has done some calculations and concluded that the odds of a human getting hit by debris are 1 in 3,200 — not astronomical, but fairly unlikely. The odds of it being you, personally, are much, much lower,…
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: get me superman :
Have you bought anything lately? I have. And I’m still trying to get it out of the damn package. Unbelievable as it seems now, opening a package used to be a breeze. Little kids did it, unsupervised, there wasn’t any skill involved and the big danger was a papercut. You’d yank open a flap or…
the whirly girl 