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Almost won the battle with the blackberry brambles. Silly things propagate via underground roots so I had to follow them around digging them out. Not fun, but very satisfying.
And the squee was for my cherry tree. I’ll have cherries this year if the birds don’t get to them first.
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I’ve been spending time weeding and cleaning up the backyard. And I thought I’d share some of the wonderful in pictures.
There’s youth, beauty, innocence, betrayal and inter-species sex.
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Got this in the mail:
A proposed Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit alleging that AT&T failed to deliver DSL Service to its customers at the speeds promised…
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you may submit a Claim Form, and you may be entitled to a one-time payment of $2.00. Claim Forms must be submitted online or sent by U.S. Mail postmarked on or before July 1, 2010.
Whew. That will pay for a whole cup of tea at Muddys and let me use their wifi for as long as they let me sit there! Thanks ATT!
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I was laid off on Monday. Over the phone. While I was visiting a friend of mine who had recruited me into this job back in 1997.
I went in today to pick up my stuff and get the details on the severance package from HR. While driving home after that, my ipod, which is on random and annoys people when it plays individual tracks by Kishore Kumar; Liz Phair; Scorpions; Abba; Mozart; Iron Horse and Julie London, started playing Happy days are here again.
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