The Free Rice Game

This is a great way to learn vocabulary while helping someone else. Bookmark this page and come back to it every day and not only will you begin to sound like you have more brains than you really do :), but you will also be helping a lot of very needy people. A [...]

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The Customer is Not Always Right

I got a kick out of this post from Violent Acres . Working daily with the public, I can identify. You might be taken aback a bit by the language (doubtful in today’s world, of course), but in this case, the customer who deems themselves as “always right” deserves a few choice words, me [...]

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Jobs and eyesight

Well, it’s been over 2 months since I’ve posted something, so thought I’d better let folks know I’m alive. Been trying to hunt down a decent job without any great success over the past few months. Working at a bookstore seasonally and may continue further past the seasonal work, but no place to [...]

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Refreshing

Having just moved into a new neighborhood and not knowing anyone, it’s always kind of nice if someone actually introduces themselves, but having lived in neighborhoods before, I don’t hold my breath. So it came as quite a refreshing moment when a neighbor across the street came up to us and enthusiastically greeted us. [...]

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Zooming back in Time

Spent most of the night transfixed by Google Earth, zooming back to old places I used to live in Germany back in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Brings back a ton of memories.
I could even zoom in on the old Herbst Brauerei (brewery) where I used to slam them back as a 16 [...]

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Time for a change

Blogger was giving me fits lately and so I decided to give WordPress a try.  And besides, it coincided with my move from the mountains to the city.  Seems like every 10 years or so, it’s time for a switch in our lives.  From being a host of a B&B to being unemployed - doesn’t [...]

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