Because companies should not tell you how much data you can use. I consider myself virtually addicted to my iPhone. I obsessively check my e-mail on it (4 accounts!); I listen to streaming music as I type on my computer at work; I surf the Internet fairly often; and I’ve got dozens
Author: Skippy-San
A good hand poorly played…..
By Yukio Hatoyama who resigned yesterday-one year after winning election by a huge electoral majority. The S.O. has been grabbing every chance to watch the news coverage. It is kind of nice to see it in the original so to speak-not so filtered by American perceptions and biases. However in the
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Ah, this is the life. Jack Daniels in the glass, and hot water shootin’ up your ass! –from the beginning of the movie, Middle Age Crazy. While I am not normally in the habit of carrying a drink into the restroom-the S.O. and I did have a chance to experience the
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No internet access for a day or so. We are off to check on the S.O.`s apartment. Picture posts tomorrow evening.
Continue readingDennis Hopper RIP.
Dead at 74. I have always been a fan of his. Spike has a pretty good piece on his life. He was a unique actor who brought a voice to many of us Boomers.
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That`s what you say when you return home in Japan-coming in the door to let the S.O. know that you are home. So I`m letting Japan know I`m back even if it is just for a week. Trip over was OK. We flew out to LAX, then the next day
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Tomorrow begins the Memorial Day weekend. The S.O. and I are on the first leg of a pilgrimage to the correct side of the International Date Line. With the exception of one glorious week last year-this is my first time back to that location in two years. TWO YEARS! That’s
Continue readingThere goes the neighborhood…..
Seems Sarah Palin begrduges members of the press-the same freedoms she espouses elsewhere. Can somebody explain to me how this isn’t a despicable thing for Palin to do? She describes McGinniss as the author of “the bizarre anti-Palin administration oil development pieces that resulted in my Department of Natural Resources
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First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! Do whatever steps you want, if You have cleared them with the Pontiff. Everybody say his own Kyrie eleison, Doin’ the Vatican Rag. Follow the link to see pictures
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When a Canadian understands the Constitution better than a lot of Arizonans or teabaggers do: I haven’t objected to the new Arizona “papers please” law, SB 1070 (PDF), on the basis that its racist, although it probably is. I object to to it because it violates the Supremacy Clause (Article
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