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Okay, after experimenting with several different design ideas, I came up with my current/final design while trying to create a DIFFERENT design I had in my head. It often happens that I stumble upon something I like on the way to something else. I guess life is like that though. You never know what you're going to find, but it's all about the journey. Anyway, philosophical rambling aside, here

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Okay, I have now changed my photography business name from "FMD Photography" to "Matt Fulkes Photography." I did this for a couple reasons, but the main ones were because no one really knew what the FMD stood for, and there wasn't any mention of my name so no one knew who the actual photographer WAS. So while it's not as cool sounding as FMD Photography, hopefully the new name will be beneficial

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Suspended above rock bottom by a gossamer thread; I feel like a caged beast, Trapped within the bars of his own undoing. Times are tough at the moment, REALLY tough. And I'm just talking about OUR life, yet alone the state of the Nation, and all the political nonsense that's being carried on around us. We need Sir Richard Branson to take our failing economy/country and make it prosperous again.

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I went to DC4U yesterday and practiced taking some portrait shots in the studio. Amanda, the niece of one of Mason's best friends (if I understand correctly,) was there with Mason's wife and one of his daughters, and Mason asked her to pose and be my model so I could practice taking some shots under controlled lighting situations. That was probably the worst photography session she's EVER had,

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Okay, so I just left a job that I've been doing for the past 5 or so years. I ran the print center at 2 different OfficeMax stores, one in Acworth (now closed apparently,) and the other in Athens (which is the one I just left.) The job was heading in directions that I didn't want to go, with more responsibilities being added to the position for no additional pay (and I was already earning less

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They rolled out a new template designer here at Blogger, so I decided to change the overall look of my blog (I'll change my other one(s) soon.)If I can't visit the beach, I can at least look at it. *smile*

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It's been a long time since I've posted to this blog, because most of my posts lately have been predominantly photographs I've taken recently. And that's what this blog post is about, but I probably won't post any pictures right now, because I still have to sort and post process them, and that's going to take a while.At any rate, Monica and I participated in the I HEART Faces Photo Walk at

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Well, today is the 2nd day in a row I've been home sick from work. I feel better than I did yesterday, but after another rough morning, there was no way I was going to go into work today. My ASM called a little while ago and asked if I was coming in tomorrow, and I've already committed myself to doing so, sick or not. Too many important things happen on Friday, most of which I'm responsible for.

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I went to meet Clare and the kids at Memorial Park today, braving the finger numbing temperatures and overcast skies that threatened freezing rain at any moment. It was SUPPOSED to have been bright and sunny, and around 40 degrees in Athens today, but it was nowhere near that this morning! Now of course the sun is shining blindingly bright, and I'm sure the temperature's warming up to above

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MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities

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I got my new camera today, and I'm itching to try it out. I just need to get some time off when it's not raining! *sigh* I want to go back to Watson Mill Bridge State Park and take some more pictures of the covered bridge, but I would like to find some cool places closer to Athens/Winder to go and take pictures. I'm sure I'll go to Fort Yargo at some point, probably when the weather gets a bit

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So today marks the advent of a couple things. First and foremost, today is the first official day of winter, the longest night of the year, the winter solstice. The season has finally arrived, despite the fact we've been experiencing winter-like temperatures for some time now (interspersed with the spring-like temperatures of course!) At any rate, winter is upon us, and it looks to be a pretty

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Enough said. Woohoo!!!

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My new blog header image is of a large (about 6") preying mantis that was clinging to the outside of our house, beside the window over the front door. It has been given the name of Mandi Mandibles (or just Mandi for short), and is one of our new guardian spirits. It's watching over us and our house, keeping us safe (or at least keeping the bug population to a minimum.)Anyway, we're getting

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To thee we'll soon draw nigh...

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This whole home buying saga is nearly at an end (or more technically a beginning, I suppose.) After weeks of dragging things out, the lenders (and everyone else involved), have finally locked in a time and date for the closing. As of 4 PM next Thursday (or whenever all the paperwork is finished and everything finalized), Monica and I will officially be home owners. :)I wish we would have closed

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Today, after I got off work, I had to zip up to HD to pick up Monica, then fly over to Regions Bank to get a print out of an account summary, then take it BACK to HD so Monica could fax it to the FHA people. Earlier today we were informed that we were one of the "lucky ones" that were "chosen at random" to undergo an audit, with regard to our loan. Lucky us! We did find out that we have until the

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Hello all. I know it's been a long time since I've written on this blog, a fact that I intend to remedy once we get settled in the new place. It might be a little while though, because we still don't have a definite closing date yet. We're still hoping for this coming Tuesday, but that's looking less and less likely as each hour goes by. We HAVE to close before the end of the month, or we lose

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It looks really weird in this picture, but oh well. :-)

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Well, as most of you know, it's been raining for days, and it looks like it's going to keep on raining for a few more days still, before we get some drier weather. Now while most of this rain has been light to moderate, without any lightning, thunder, wind, etc. (namely dreary and depressing), tonight we've had some decent lightning.Photographing lightning has always been something I've been

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Or at least the driver's seat! I got my car back today. (Thanks, Paul!) Monica, Louise and I drove to Alabama to meet up with Paul and Kristi, to drive my car, which Paul so kindly fixed for me, back home. It's good to be behind the wheel again, and even though it was a 3-4 hour drive back home, I didn't mind it one bit (except for all the police that were out and about.)Paul still has our other

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I watched an excellent movie tonight. It's called Into The Wild, and it's based on a true story, and the book written by Jon Krakauer. Sean Penn directs the movie, and it features evocative music by Eddie Vedder, and amazing scenery from Alaska and various other states around the country. It's the kind of movie that really makes you take a close look at your life; where you're heading, and where

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A monster meat loaf I made, prior to being cooked. I can feel my cholesterol rising already!

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Some of the stuff Monica and I baked today! :-)

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Okay, so here's a brief rundown of what Monica and I made today.1) In the crock pot, we have a roast of beef, slow cooking with vegetables, which will be for dinner tomorrow.2) We made soft tacos for dinner tonight.3) We made quiche Loraine x2 (with wonderful peppered bacon this time!)4) We made an apple pie/crumble with one of the first pie crusts that shrank too much to be used for the quiches

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Okay, so I did go out yesterday and do some running around. I drove up to work on my day off to take care of a printer issue they were having, and to print a 16"x20" picture enlargement for a customer. Then I went up to Home Depot to say hello to Monica, running into my Assistant Manager from work, who was there in his hours off before he had to go into work, buying tile for his bathroom. After

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Today has been one of those rare days (lately anyway) that Monica and I have both been home (and awake) at the same time. So we've spent the day cooking together, something we haven't done in a long time.I got the grill going, and slow cooked a couple racks of short ribs, which we'll be having with corn and mashed potatoes for dinner. While they were cooking, Monica and I worked in the kitchen

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Well, I printed out the mailing label to ship my PS3 back to Sony, to have them fix it, or send me a Best Buy gift card to go buy another one, but when I talked to the customer service people the other night, and informed them that I had a Netflix DVD stuck in the Playstation, the lady I spoke with told me to go to Best Buy to see if the Geek Squad could get the disc out for me. So that's what

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Well, right in the middle of watching Wild Hogs on Blue-ray with Monica tonight, my PS3 decided to lock up. It just stopped working, the disc stopped spinning, and it went into and "error" mode with a flashing red light. There's a small, white "post" that's across the entrance to the slot where discs are inserted, and it's preventing the DVD that's in there from coming out, and stopping me from

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Well, the Griffin Day 5K and Concert was a great success, and thanks to everyone's support, thousands of dollars were raised to help out the family. I don't know the exact total yet; I'll leave that up to Clare to post. Needless to say, it was a fair amount.The day started with a 5K run/walk along a trail cut through the Adams' property. Then some people left while others stayed and socialized.

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I'm checking out a new Twitter application for my Windows Mobile based phone. It's calle Twikini, and you can view screenshots of it here:http://www.trinketsoftware.com/twikini/Screenshots.aspxI don't have a snazzy iPhone or a Blackberry, but Twikini received high ratings as a Windows Mobile Twitter app, so I'm going to check it out. For more information about the program, visithttp://

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Well, Monica has been in RI since Thursday, and will be there through July 4th. As for myself, I'm here at home, going stir crazy. I have all this time on my hands, and nothing to do with it. I don't really know anyone up here (other than my sister and her family, and some friends of hers), and I'm not into the whole partying/drinking scene (that starts in December, when I hit "middle age.") It's

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It was really this afternoon, after work, but "movie afternoon" just sounds kind of stupid.At any rate, Monica and I went to see a matinee showing of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen today after we both got off work. It's an awesome movie, and excellent soundtrack, and a great movie score! I would definitely see that movie again, if anyone is interested in going to see it! :) It's another one

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It's been almost 2 weeks since I've posted a blog on here, so I thought it was high time I checked in with my handful of readers. For those of you who know me personally, or have been following my blogs over the past few weeks, you know why I've been a bit lapse in my postings. I've had a lot on my mind. Also, I finally got a new computer, and I've been in the process of getting it set up the way

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I received the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection in the mail today. I get these programs so I can get jobs on the side that pay better than my actual job. The problem is, I need to get one of those jobs to earn money to buy a new computer that's capable of actually RUNNING these new programs without crashing. Half the time I can't even install them! So unfortunately, it's one big, vicious

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Here are some more pictures from our day out on the lake yesterday (Saturday) for Dad's birthday. To view the others, check out Clare's page.

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Monica sent me this picture from her phone today. She was out with her sisters and her family, somewhere in the Miami/Miramar area. She informed me that the Sea Monkey was definitely part Limey, because fish 'n chips were the only thing she'd been craving all day, and that she'd eaten that for lunch. I asked her where she'd eaten fish 'n chips and she was like, "Oh, at the bar at the pool..."I'm

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This year's Atlanta Walk to Defeat ALS is Saturday, November 14th. We're getting an earlier start on things this year, and getting better organized. Monica and I will be walking, along with various other friends and family members, and we'd love to have all of you come join us in walking for this worthy cause. It's a simple 2 laps (I believe) around Centennial Olympic Park and the surrounding

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And it's called The Royal Peasant (kind of an oxymoron, but oh well.) In case you haven't heard, there's a new place to eat in town (well, in Athens anyway.) It's called The Royal Peasant, and it's located in Five Points, where The Mean Bean Mexican restaurant used to be.I found out about it today, when one of the waitresses came into OfficeMax and handed me 25 menus to laminate as quickly as

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Well, we found Shadow's kittens. They're next door at the neighbor's house. As far as we know, there are 4 of them, 3 solid black ones, and one gray one (the odd one out of both litters.) We tried to get them from the back of the house, but they're not used to people yet, and ran for cover then hissed and spat at us from their hiding places (the gray one especially.)The neighbors (at least the

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I guess posting to FaceBook made it official (or something. That's kind of sad to say that. lol) The rumors are true though - Monica is pregnant, and we're going to have our first child sometime around the end of this year/early next year, if all goes well! This will truly be a miracle baby, because the doctors have told Monica for years that there was basically a one in a million chance that

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These are the last of the pictures I tried to post from Memorial Day. My computer crashed before I could upload them, and this is the first chance I've had. :)   

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We had planned on having roast chicken for dinner tonight, but it stayed in the refrigerator a day or so too long (it was a "reduced for quick sale" buy to start with), and now it smells like eggs; and I'm NOT eating a chicken that smells like eggs, even if that's where eggs come from!So now I have decide on something different for dinner. [This is one of those "pointless" blogs, in case you were

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We still have 5 (maybe 4 if we decide to keep Milk Man) cute and lovable kittens that need a good home! They're amusing little bundles of fur, 2 black, 3 white. They're getting more and more adventurous (some of them anyway), and I don't want anything to happen to them.If necessary I'll take them to the Humane Center, and try and get them adopted through the pet store next to where I work, but

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I've got a pork shoulder cooking in the crock pot right now, destined to become a few day's worth of pulled pork. I haven't made any in awhile, and it's different each time I make it (although I have a particular way I LIKE to make it, if I can.) With these unusually cool nights and windy days, it will be a delicious change in table fare for us. And if it comes out well, I'd be glad to share, if

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Okay, it's about that time. The kittens (featured in the various pictures below) need good, loving homes. The 2 "pairs" will go first (hopefully IN pairs, but individually is fine too.) The last one to go, if we decide to give it up, will be the runt of the litter (the smallest white one.) We really like that one (even though it's a bit noisy), and we MAY keep it (it's the one we've dubbed "Milk

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These kittens will need good, loving homes very soon! Contact me if interested. Thanks! :-)

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Today was another wonderful (and cooler) spring day that I spent primarily indoors. This is not by choice, but rather out of necessity. This time of year, the more time I spend outside, the more time I spend suffering with horrible allergies which lead to bronchitis, and can end up putting me in the hospital with a dangerous case of pneumonia or something similar. This is a major nuisance for me,

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Just checking out a simple tutorial for converting digital color pictures to black and white pictures, without using a program to simply desaturate the image, or convert it straight to gray scale. Here are a few samples.

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The kittens have finally emerged from under the house, more or less. There are 5 of them that survived, and 4 of them are paired off, one white one with one dark grey one. Then there's the runt of the litter, left alone because the other half of his "pair" didn't make it past the second day. So he's the odd one out. He's also the most adventurous of the bunch, and the post people friendly (the

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I ask myself this question more and more often these days. Why DID I go to college? I have a Bachelor of Science degree, but it's never done me any good. Any of the skills I've used to get and keep a job have been ones I taught myself. I'm still earning ridiculously low wages in my "real jobs, " and the only time I earn halfway decent money is when I freelance, again using skills that I, for the

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Well, they're somewhat blurry and "painted looking" again, but here are 2 more pictures I took today of one of the Ruby Throated Humming Birds on the feeder at Clare and Josh's place. I used a different camera setting this time, and managed to capture a couple still images of it's wings; wings that beat anywhere from 50-80 times per second! Check them out. :-)Also, if you look carefully at the

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I went over to Clare and Josh's again for a little while this evening, and while I was there I took some pictures of a couple humming birds and a bee gathering pollen on some large, yellow irises. The pictures once again look like paintings when I crop them down so you can see the smaller details, but oh well. One of these days I'll get a nice dSLR camera with a high-powered zoom lens, and I

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Monica asked me to bring her camera out onto the porch earlier tonight, because there was a Luna Moth on the wall. I used to take pictures of them all the time when I worked/lived up at the Len Foote Hike Inn, but it's been a while since I've seen one, so I grabbed my camera too, and went out to try and take some pictures.Patches was in on the fun too (unfortunately trying to EAT said Luna Moth

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While Clare and Josh were out on the town, having dinner and getting interviewed for a news article by some friends of theirs, Monica and I stayed at their house and kept an eye on the kids. Clare put Esme to bed right when we got there, and after 10 minutes or so of crying, she finally settled down and went to sleep. Jack stayed up with Monica and I, and over the course of the night we played

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I've been having a serious chocolate craving for the last couple days (possibly due to all of Clare's mentioning of YPPs.) At any rate, I raided my change jar today, and drove down to Bells grocery store to get my fix. Normally I would have driven to Wal-Mart, but the comparative distance between our house and Wal-Mart, and our house and Bells made the decision a no-brainer today.In addition to

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Ah yes, I love alliteration! :) Here are some pictures I took when I was over at Clare and Josh's place this morning/afternoon.

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MyHeritage: Celebrity Morph - Free genealogy - Blank family tree

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A few pictures I took this evening.

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MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities

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Earlier this evening I finished up a virtual "meeting" on Skype with some of the people I am now business partners with. We have formed an LLC, and are in the process of planning our company infrastructure and site design/launch. We still have a lot of work to do, and I can't really say much about it yet, due to non-disclosure agreements and "hush-hush" specifics such as those, but with a lot of

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As I sit here at my computer, eating chips and Tex-Mex dip from yesterday's wonderful Easter lunch and listening to the on and off rain, I can't help but wonder if we're entering a "flood period." Here in Georgia at least, we've been under drought conditions for so many years, but from what I've heard, we've come out of that now, due to the extreme amount of rain we've been having over the past

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Okay, this will make blog #7 for me!I was reading an article about creating a blog to use as a job hunting tool, so I did just that. My new blog, entitled Matt Fulkes - Searching For The Perfect Job, can be found at the following URL:http://mattfulkes.wordpress.com/Like a few of my blogs, this new blog is in a state of infancy, so don't expect much yet. I hope to turn this into a successful job

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I finally got a haircut today. The only thing is, the lady who cut my hair cut most of it off. My beard is now longer than the majority of my hair. I have mole hair! (Why "mole hair?" you ask. Well, how long is a mole's hair? Exactly. Now you know what I mean!) I am NOT looking forward to tomorrow when I have to get ready for work. With all my cowlicks, I'm not sure WHAT my hair is going to do.

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Well, I had posted an entry with this title on my blog a little earlier, but I decided it and the previous entry needed a new blog of their own. So I created one (that makes 6 of them for me now, I think.) Just like this blog post title, and the original post that I moved to the new blog, it's called Like Kryptonite To Superman. I plan to use it to talk about my day to day battle with spring time

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That's the movie count so far (of the movies I've actually listed anyway.) I watched 2 more today, one by myself (because it wasn't Monica's sort of thing), and one when Monica got home, while we were eating the wonderful dinner I cooked (venison roast with potatoes, carrots, celery and onions.) *g*Once again I extend the invitation to my readers to join me some night for a movie. Without having

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In my daily random searches of the Internet, I occasionally find sites that I think other people might be interested in, so I post them on my blog. Here is a site that I found today. It's basically like eBay, but a bit more "live and interactive." (At least I think it is. I haven't really looked at eBay in a LONG time.)Anyway, it's another online bidding site called Swoopo. One downside to the

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In an effort to get away from Blogger and it's limitations, I've set up yet another blog on my "business" Web site. I may move all my blogger posts over to the new site, or I may just start posting less and less on this blog and more often on the new one. OR, I may just forget all about the new one, and keep on with the way things are here.At any rate, here's the URL for my latest blog:http://

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For those of you who may have been following my Twitter stream as of late (yeah, right), I feel a word or two of explanation is necessary.As many of you know, I was the ImPress Supervisor at the Acworth OfficeMax, but when I transferred up here to the Athens store, I dropped back to a regular Associate, because this store already had an ImPress Supervisor - Stacey. Anyway, Stacey was in her first

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I'm not kidding. I was just looking at the Tractor Supply Company Web site, after taking their survey to win a $2,500 TSC gift card, and they have the oddest assortment of products for purchase. They have to be one of the only stores where you can purchase an ATV, and then in the same transaction, get a brand new cover for your Bible (to protect it while you're riding around with it on your brand

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Okay, in my continuing quest towards Supreme Geekhood, I have added my Twitter feed to the sidebar of my blog. I've never really used it that much since I signed up, but it's kind of a fun way to keep in touch with people, and I can post updates from my phone (like I can for Blogger, FaceBook, and various other time-wasting Web sites. lol)So if you want to know what's going on in my life lately,

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...That didn't make it. The other 5 kittens appear to be hail and hearty. Quite the opposite of what we were expecting after the first night.We thought we'd end up with 1 healthy kitten, and 5 dead ones. Four of the "near dead" ones were able to survive, with a little help from us and lots of TLC from Patches, but the last one just wasn't strong enough to compete for food with it's brothers and

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I haven't posted any kitten pictures yet, because we're still waiting to see if they all make it. Six were born; for various reasons 1 ended up being singled out for preferential care last night, and this morning I thought we had 1 very lively one and 5 rather dead ones on our hands. With a lot of TLC, the current count is - 1 extremely lively one, 4 lively ones, and 1 that wasn't do so well, but

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Patches had her kittens this afternoon. (It's about time too, because she'd gotten SO big that it was hard for her to move around, and jump/climb up on things!) At any rate, there are 6 tiny balls of fur (quite a lot for a first litter!) Three of them are basically solid black (with at least 1 having dark stripes/bands on it's legs (the back ones at least)); and the other 3 are solid white, with

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I added some new pictures to my FMD Photography site from Watson Mill Bridge State Park. I went out there again today and walked along the other side of the river this time. It's not quite as interesting photography-wise (to me anyway, although it has better access to some great rocks to sit on out in mid-stream), but it's got a great bike trail. Now I just need a mountain bike...

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We sell these things at work from time to time, but I've never checked out their Web site. Watch the video on the home page, it's hysterical! lolDespair, Inc.This site basically offers the same thing (sans the amusing video), but is intended for ACTUAL motivational purposes:MotivatorI found these sites on a cool photography Web site called Photojojo, which I in turn found out about on the I HEART

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I found this quite randomly while I was browsing the COLOURlovers Web site. It was a "modern art experiment" performed in London, to try and add a little cheer to a dreary world, and bring a smile to everyone's face. This would be so much fun to try! :)HappyClouds

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Man, that took forever!The pictures are finally online on my FMD Photography blog though. They spread over 2 pages, so once you get to the bottom of the first page, you have to click on the "Older Posts" link to go back to the first page and view the rest of them.Due to the various filters and whatnot that I ran on the pictures, many of them look more like painted pictures than photographic

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Monica just called from outside her hotel room in RI. It's freezing cold there, but she arrived safely, and is about to tuck into a warm bed to get a good night's rest. Ryan (I believe that's what she said his name was) will be there to pick her up around 10 AM in the morning, and then she'll have meetings with the agencies, and dinner with everyone before returning home via Charlotte tomorrow

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