This week’s Friday Five touches on several themes I’ve covered in this blog for a long time:
1. Who is your favorite singer/musician? Why?
Overall, my favorite is Billy Joel. His songs have always told stories that resonate with me.
I still remember listening to the Glass Houses album over and over on a car trip to Florida [...]
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look! cute little kittens! blogjam random kitten generator
Since I’m such a cat lover, this site had me cooing over photos repeatedly.
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This week’s Friday Five:
1. Is the name you have now the same name that’s on your birth certificate? If not, what’s changed?
It remains the same, although my full name of Jeffrey I usually shorten to Jeff.
2. If you could change your name (first, middle and/or last), what would it be?
I would take my original middle [...]
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Well, 9-11 wasn’t as difficult to get through this year – although the fact that it was dealt with so off-the-cuff by many, only two years past, disturbs me.
- Oh: I had the casualty numbers much higher than they really were… there were nearly 3100 lives lost, not 8000. Still, anything over 0 is [...]
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It’s now the eve of the 2nd anniversary of 9-11… I suspect it will be a very emotional day for me.
I couldn’t help but find it “convenient” that a new tape of Osama bin Laden was “discovered” just on the eve of that horrible day.
Regardless of my feelings about G.W. Bush (you’d have to [...]
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CNN.com – Bush to ask billions more for Iraq – Sep. 7, 2003
When ‘Dubya’ was named President (I don’t say elected; the popular vote was won by Gore) my words in this blog were:
I hope we live through this mistake. – or words to that effect.
Now, while the American economy is in the dumps, what [...]
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