Elaine’s Place

I hesitated writing about this but the entire incident just seemed “weird” to me. Early yesterday evening I was on the deck watering the flowers and tending to the flower pots.  The house next door has 4 young children, ages 5, 3, 2, & 1. The Mother is rarely outside, she stays indoors with the [...]

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Does your trash collection offer those plastic recycle bins? You know for newspapers, milk jugs, cereal boxes ect. My service does but very few people in my neighborhood use them and for a good reason. THE WIND. Where I live is the highest elevation in the county. It’s almost always windy here. So what happens [...]

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You ever have one of those Murphy weeks? You know, "anything that can go wrong will go wrong".  Man I had a doozy of a one last week which is why I have not posted in my blog for quite a few days. I really don’t want to rehash my week from hell but the [...]

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Seems we can forget about passenger bill of rights. A federal appeals court today  struck down a state law requiring airlines to give food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passengers stuck in delayed planes, saying the measure was well-intentioned but stepped on federal authority.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said New York’s [...]

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I am back in Michigan after spending the week in North Carolina. My flights were uneventful and on time which is always an added bonus. Plus I wasn’t seated anywhere near the bathroom, double bonus for that one :-)  On the way back there was an elderly gentleman in front of me going through security. [...]

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The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously Tuesday to require all city chain restaurants to post calorie data on their menus.
The order requiring New York chain restaurants to post calories on their menus comes after months of litigation.
Chain restaurants already must make the calorie counts of their menu items publicly available, but [...]

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Well since Kirk over at “Just Thinkin’ beat me to it I’m going to post his write up (with his permission of course) about Google’s asinine decision to allow only those with Blogger accounts to leave their link when commenting.
If there’s one main thing that the Blogosphere revolves around, what would it be?
Back links! That’s [...]

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My allergies are kicking my butt! Even with the Allegra-D and Singulair I’m still miserable. When they get too bad I usually go to the doctor and get an injection of Kenalog which is a long acting steroid. It calms down the inflammatory response in the body and typically lasts for several weeks, thus [...]

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When the temperature is 60° one day and the next it’s a whoppin 92°!
When you have on shorts, your car has  leather interior, it’s been in the sun for hours then you try to get in? I think I might have burned my legs today.
When the nice cold bottle of water you left in [...]

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This has not been a good day in computer land. Had many problems getting this new version of WLW writer to work. I have gone through all my plugins, disabled scripts in the header.php file. Not even sure this will publish. Not to mention my problems with the theme update.
Good thing there is no delete [...]

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