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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Big Bear Surprises.

On Sunday I took, or should I say, I was “told” I was going to take “A” to the father and daughter dance by the Burlington Junior Women’s League. When “A” asked to go, I told her I would put in for a vacation day at work so I could go. But at the time [...]

R.I.S. #4 - Easter Lilly Smells

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This Week:
Hillary’s differing stories on Bosnia visit.
The smell of the Easter Lilly.
Egg McMuffin inventor dies.
KBUR radio station news site back up, better than before.
Computer game warnings in the U.K.
Eastwood fired by Gov. Arnold.
Motorola spins off mobile phone division.
Richard Widmark, actor dies.
Wilkins Ice shelf disintegration.
Web cam changes.
SD+LL/mlm

New Firefox and IE

I downloaded and installed Firefox 3 beta 4 on both my windows and Ubuntu machines. Will let you know how that goes. Also I downloaded the IE 8 beta. And already I had to run IE 8 in IE 7 mode, just so my website would show up right. I have to remember it is [...]

Kids sick again

Once again with the famous Iowa up and down weather, my two kids are sick once again. Knock on wood, I’ve been lucky so far. “C”’s grades this quarter are not so good and he has been put on notice. He needs to pull his head out of his A#%! and do the work. [...]

R.I.S. #3 - Nothing going on

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This week I wasn’t really prepared so it was by the “seat of my pants”. Talked about being near the confluence of 41′N and 91′W. Can learn more about confluences at Confluence.org, I also spoke about the high prices of diesel fuel. I am saving Pepsi caps for free music from www.amazon.com by way [...]

Where does your station get its gas?

I friend of mine sent me an email that listed gas stations that bought their oil from middle eastern countries and those that didn’t. After I did research on www.snopes.com I found out some interesting facts and a link to here http://tinyurl.com/1zsk that shows exactly where each oil company gets its oil from. NOTE [...]

Test taken - Nice Day

The trip to Davenport was a nice trip as it was a nice day outside. The technician who did the test did a much more thorough test then I have ever seen GRMC do before. We stopped at Culvers on the way back and had lunch. It was pretty good. Afterward we went over to [...]

R.I.S. #2 - Daylight Savings Time

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IRS Spends $41.8 Million on letters :
Obama, Clinton, and McCain on NAFTA :
MS IE 8 Public Beta is out :
Apple SDK released, who cares? :
County Roads really bad this Year

R.I.S. #1 - Iowa’s Smoking Ban

Rural Iowa Speaks (RIS) Episode #1 - Iowa’s Smoking Ban
Iowa’s Smoking Ban
Presidential Elections
New Photos
Phesants in back yard
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Davenport Trip

Took my son to Davenport yesterday afternoon for a checkup. Couldn’t tell too much because when they sent us the letter to call for an appointment they screwed up and forgot to tell us he had to have a test scheduled before hand as the Dr. needed the test. So basically we made a trip [...]