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April 20, 2008 |
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I just spent the better part of the weekend tweaking my server's spam filters. This is an ongoing battle for anyone who's dealing with the internet. Lately we have been flooded by a new wave of junk mail from these indescribable morons who must believe the whole Western world is as stupid and greedy as they are. |
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April 09, 2008 |
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Last year I was almost mesmerized for a couple of months watching American Idol. I laughed through the ridiculous auditions, amazed at the whole process. Sure, I know there are hundreds of thousands of people out there who have dreams of becoming famous. |
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Last Updated ( April 09, 2008 )
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April 03, 2008 |
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This week I had some new activity at my window birdfeeder. We were visited by some starlings (or are they grackles? I have to get that bird book out again and look) and a cowbird! Cowbirds are interesting critters. They don't build nests. |
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Last Updated ( April 03, 2008 )
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March 29, 2008 |
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This morning I had the NRV scanner channel on, listening for word on the manhunt in Giles County. Naturally the scanner was broadcasting more than just that one event, so I could hear bursts from Pulaski, Montgomery, and Floyd counties. That's how I came to be listening when the call came through about a pickup truck down an embankment in Belspring. |
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March 22, 2008 |
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One of the songs I sing says, "the more I learn, the more I know, I don't know anything" and that sums up how I feel today. There is so much to learn and discover, there just aren't enough years in this life to get into all of them. |
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March 11, 2008 |
 One of the things I bragged to my friends back north about when we moved here was "the wave." I even proposed to some friends that you could make a great commercial promoting Floyd about this. A brochure about Floyd County once touted the county as having some of the highest elevations in the state (er..um..Commonwealth...gotta get used to that!) So picture this: a video of a drive around the backroads with people waving as you pass. Old people, young people, farmers on tractors, people in pickup trucks, people on a porch swing, kids in the front yard, just waving as you pass. And in the background is the Beach Boys' song playing. The narrator says, 'get away from the noise and the crowds and the traffic. Come back to a place that still remembers the old values, where people still matter." And then fade in the Beach Boys singing, "Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world..." |
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Last Updated ( March 11, 2008 )
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March 10, 2008 |
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We actually had tornado watches in the Blue Ridge Mountains last week. Over in Franklin and Henry Counties they had tornado WARNINGS, which are much worse. The National Weather Service visited Big Stone Gap (a bit south and west of here, but still in the mountains) and said that an EF-1 tornado did indeed touch down there, and did some minor damage. |
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Last Updated ( March 10, 2008 )
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