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I just got word from the Butcher that our overly-tattooed friend is coming to visit!  Next week.

This should make for exciting blogging.  Just to recap, the overly-tattooed friend does not speak or read Chinese, but has a tattoo on the back of his neck that says, he believes, pain.  And yet, it is made up of two characters.

Well, two and a half.

My apologies for being a slacker this past week on the blog.  Once I got back to town from vacation, it has been nothing but work up to my eyeballs.  Thank goodness for being busy.  But it’s meant zero time for blogging.

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The light blogging of the past week was due to our family vacation in Florida.  Between the beach and other diversions I tried to keep tabs on what was going on here, but Orlando news proved to be more fun.  Take for instance the troublemaking University of Central Florida student who decided to commit a

If you follow me on Twitter (twitter.com/r), you may have caught me mentioning I’m planning to go “Neo-Amish” for a few days.

You experience it wherever you go. It’s there when you flip on your TV, as you tune across the radio dial, and browse the internet. You can’t escape it, yet most of us never feel trapped. It’s part of our lives, and we accept it. What is this, such a pervasive, penetrative object? The answer is shockingly simple. Advertising.

I approach the blog nowadays with a head full of nothing. If a blog to me is really just about connecting with a certain circle of friends, then Twitter has been taking care of that need lately. I type out my limited little thought of the moment on my phone, send it out, and I'm a part of whatever in the world all of this social media stuff is about.

I want to follow up to my post yesterday regarding hitting the lottery jack-pot. It seems that at least one blogger out there felt as if I was out of line by promoting gambling, and leading people astray.

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