Sammy spent most of the day with us yesterday and he was a bit out of sorts; I think he is cutting his first tooth. He just turned three months old, gnaws his fist, and slobbers like a dieting chef. I tried to make some photos but didn’t have enough light and he wasn’t about to hold still enough for a 1/60 sec. shot.
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The squeeze is getting worse as banks create or raise fees on every service affecting the middle class and poor. Maintaining overly-high profit margins is the New America. Bank of America pretty much told President Obama to mind his own business when he complained about the unreasonable increases. He seems to have taken their advice.
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I want to do another story but am having a case of writer’s block compounded by memory corruption. I’ve found a couple of places in my last story that need a bit of work, mostly in the important opening paragraph.
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Sean Connery or Roger Moore as 007? Best 007 movie?
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I mentioned yesterday that old-time hillbillies didn’t care for classical music. They didn’t much like Shakespeare, either. In fact, they didn’t much care for anything British; after all, they are of Scots-Irish ancestry and there has been bad blood with the English for hundreds of years. They have also been told how the English treated the Watauga settlers during the Revolution by inciting native Americans to attack and kill people who had no interest in supporting either side and that added to the animosity toward the Crown. When Lord Cornwallis threatened to send troops over the mountains to wreck the settlements because they would not side with the English, settlers from the Wolf Hills (now Abingdon, Virginia), the Cumberland Gap area, the Nolichucky settlements, and the Watauga settlements mustered at Fort Watauga and hiked into North Carolina to take their brand of war to the British. They whipped a Red Coat army which had taken defensive position atop King’s Mountain; it is considered by many historians as the turning point of the American Revolutionary War in the south. Personally, I like the British; they are probably the best friends the U.S. has in the world and they gave us Monty Python! History lesson over ... class dismissed.
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Have a good day!
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The squeeze is getting worse as banks create or raise fees on every service affecting the middle class and poor. Maintaining overly-high profit margins is the New America. Bank of America pretty much told President Obama to mind his own business when he complained about the unreasonable increases. He seems to have taken their advice.
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I want to do another story but am having a case of writer’s block compounded by memory corruption. I’ve found a couple of places in my last story that need a bit of work, mostly in the important opening paragraph.
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Sean Connery or Roger Moore as 007? Best 007 movie?
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I mentioned yesterday that old-time hillbillies didn’t care for classical music. They didn’t much like Shakespeare, either. In fact, they didn’t much care for anything British; after all, they are of Scots-Irish ancestry and there has been bad blood with the English for hundreds of years. They have also been told how the English treated the Watauga settlers during the Revolution by inciting native Americans to attack and kill people who had no interest in supporting either side and that added to the animosity toward the Crown. When Lord Cornwallis threatened to send troops over the mountains to wreck the settlements because they would not side with the English, settlers from the Wolf Hills (now Abingdon, Virginia), the Cumberland Gap area, the Nolichucky settlements, and the Watauga settlements mustered at Fort Watauga and hiked into North Carolina to take their brand of war to the British. They whipped a Red Coat army which had taken defensive position atop King’s Mountain; it is considered by many historians as the turning point of the American Revolutionary War in the south. Personally, I like the British; they are probably the best friends the U.S. has in the world and they gave us Monty Python! History lesson over ... class dismissed.
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Have a good day!
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