July 2009

I asked…and I received

July 30, 2009

In April of this year, my pal @Daethian on Twitter introduced me to the wonderful snarkfest that is Ask And Ye Shall Receive.  Described as a “self-imposed quixotic quest to improve the quality of the blogosphere,” the folks at AAYSR make it their mission to evaluate (at the blogger’s request only) various blogs and provide [...]

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Italian Beef – Go Dipped Or Go Home

July 29, 2009

If you are local to Chicago, pick up a copy of today’s RedEye, and turn to page 4. There you will see an article debating the relative merits of “dipped” vs. “undipped” for the Chicago delicacy known as the Italian beef sandwich. For the uninformed, a “dipped” beef sandwich is one in which, after the [...]

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Fussy Follow Friday – @KellyG5

July 24, 2009

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for Fussy Follow Friday again! My Twitter follow recommendation for this week is one of my all-time favorites…@KellyG5. If you like your Twitter full of inspiration and hilarity, then you need to follow @KellyG5 immediately. Seriously. Do it RIGHT NOW. You can come back and read the rest of [...]

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One Number to Rule Them All…Google Voice!

July 23, 2009

When I was a kid, it was easy to remember phone numbers. For one thing, we didn’t care about area codes. But also, everyone had one phone number – and it didn’t change. My parents’ home number is the same one that I grew up with – even when we moved across the street, our [...]

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Making progress…

July 22, 2009

Things are progressing nicely with my fitness/weight loss program. I am into Week 4 of Couch to 5K and have been eating reasonably for a few weeks as well. I’ve also been educating myself and reading a lot of nutrition literature – as well as a lot of really useful comments I got from you, [...]

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Fussy Follow Friday – @mominreallife

July 17, 2009

For those of you not familiar…Fussy Follow Friday is based upon the concept that instead of a glut of Twitter follow recommendations, I will make one, and ONLY ONE, follow recommendation per Friday. For more information, the Library of Congress recommends this blog post. It’s Friday…so you know what that means…it’s Fussy Follow Friday time! [...]

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This is driving me crazy…

July 17, 2009

For some reason, last night, while I was reading, I thought of a passage from a book. A book that I cannot, for the life of me, recall the name of, or even what it is about. All the I remember is that there’s apparently some type of magic or other fantasy type action – [...]

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