What a way to welcome in the New Year!
 

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It’s always fun to start the New Year looking forward and thinking about what might come to be.  It’s a day full of high hopes and lofty goals.  A day when I’m charged up and ready to change myself and the world.
Somewhere during the course of the year, and it’s usually sooner rather than [...]

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I spent a very quiet and relaxing holiday, partly by choice and partly because winter weather kept people from traveling.
Christmas Eve was spent with extended family, playing games, listening to music, having dinner and opening gifts in front of the fireplace.  How all that can exhaust me I’ll never know, but it did!
Yesterday was spent [...]

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A Very Merry Christmas to you!
 
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Some photos from my snowy yard
I can only take being snow-bound so long before I’ll start going crazy.  I’m rapidly approaching that point.

photos from personal collection

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Snow and more snow, with the occasion interruption for snow flurries.  What a messy, miserable day here in Seattle.
Although my road were sanded in the wee hours, they’ve since been snowed over.  A couple of times.  I’m guess there’s around six inches of the white stuff in the yard and deck.
I’ve spent most of the [...]

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It only happens every few years – snow heavy enough to bring things to a screeching halt around here – snow in Seattle.  Evidently this is one of those years!
There’s been a couple days now of snow and ice, but tonight the blizzard appears to have hit in full force.  I was out doing [...]

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One of my favorite television shows signed off last week, Boston Legal.  While not a big television viewer, this show was always on my Tivo record list.
I discovered the show in its third season, and had to rent the previous season’s episodes to quickly get up to speed.  After only a couple of episodes, I [...]

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

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On a recent trip to Las Vegas, I stayed at the Mandalay Bay Resort.  When it came to choose an evening’s entertainment, it was easy to choose the musical comedy MAMMA MIA! since it was playing in the theater at Mandalay Bay.
While I’m not a huge ABBA fan, I’d heard so many good things about [...]

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