Waiting for a meaty book to arrive from Amazon, I found myself at the library doing some browsing for items short and sweet. I hopped onto Goodreads, waded through my “to read” list, and came to this title. I have no idea when or how it got to my list as I hadn’t recalled ever hearing of it, but I had to have put…

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Disclosure: I haven’t had a prescription drug in a decade. I haven’t gone to the doctor for an ailment other than physical (destroyed hamstrings) in that same period. I rarely get sick, and if I do, I let my body repair naturally…  I do use over-the-counter stuff from time to time, but only if absolutely necessary for proper sleep or daily function. Typically, a medicine…

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In one of Mom’s early post-op MRI’s, the doctors saw another small mass elsewhere in her brain. Could have been a fatty deposit, calcium deposit, or… another tumor. If it was another tumor, that bodes really badly as, obviously, the cancer is spreading. We just received confirmation that it is in fact another tumor. This one is located right behind her eye so while…

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No joke. No, I don’t think it will change my outlook on religion. Yes, I hope to learn something. No, most religious folk have no idea what’s inside it, but they believe, and that’s all that counts in the end, right? That’s just so darned convenient, eh? Starting with the gospels of Mark and Luke. If I still have interest after those, I’ll soldier…

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As most of you know, I need to know how everything works, and am also a grammar nazi… This can probably be summarized best as “I like to be right.” I look A LOT of stuff up. Today, I was faced with using “toward” or “towards.” I always use “toward,” but I didn’t know why, or if it was even correct. A quick Google…

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The text should tell you what’s going down, but the quick of it is I bought something from this guy, told him I didn’t know when I’d be there to get it (made it clear it would be a while), he sold it in the interim, and refuses to refund my money. I’m giving him a day to resolve this. Afterward, I’m sending the…

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