Tag: random musings
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June 21, 2009 11:07 AM EDT --
Now, I was reading that Gather has changed the algorithm for calculating Gather point earnings such that you earn far less points for rating & commenting than before, and more points for posting. . . .
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June 29, 2009 07:59 AM EDT --
I posted my 100th update on Twitter today. http://twitter.com/BOBESHERMAN
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January 14, 2009 07:45 PM EST --
As I am getting closer to retirement, I am attempting to come up with ideas on a way to retire from my present position and work from home. I have heard of these "you can make 2,000 a month . . .
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July 04, 2009 07:54 PM EDT --
I had a wonderful 4th of July. I wasn't grilling out or watching fireworks. I was sitting in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center watching The Phantom of the Opera. It was better than I . . .
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February 28, 2007 12:42 PM EST --
In my previous article, Rare Allurement, I posted part of an old poem that was found on an old cabin door. The author of this timeless poem is unknown but I imagine it was someone who loved his time . . .
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March 18, 2007 03:50 AM EDT --
Are you a woman over 55? I would like to know what makes you tick. What are you doing with your life? Are you content with where you are or would you like to be in another place? . . .
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March 21, 2007 12:58 AM EDT --
I will take this bold step and ask you what you did today, the First Day of Spring. It is a day that I usually celebrate in some fashion. I did at least burn sage and light a candle I . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
Have any of you ever put a message into a bottle? You printed your name and address, screwed on the cap or corked it and threw it into the water. Then, you forgot about . . .
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March 31, 2009 04:36 PM EDT --
Just when I was gaining some confidence, this was on the front page:
http://news.aol.com/article/conficker-worm-virus-april-1/402022
Will it ever end? Worry worry.
Maybe we should all stay . . .
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June 10, 2009 01:36 AM EDT --
A few nights ago, I did part 1 of my experiment; to see how ratings and comments affect points; if at all. I have still found my points increasing, even though I closed that post to ratings and comments. . . .
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March 30, 2007 11:45 PM EDT --
Naturally, I have loads of stuff. Once I had a friend over who kept talking about my Shotskis...well, honey, as soon as she left, I looked it up in the dictionary. Of course, if you can't . . .
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December 01, 2007 01:53 PM EST --
A sunny good morning to all of you in the Gather world. The day's hours are gold and the minutes silver. There are rubies in my dustbin and I just have to sweep the house to find . . .
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May 12, 2006 10:40 AM EDT --
Slowly he trod over the barren sand, in search of his prey. His finely tuned instincts born from centuries of breeding at full-force. He was a German Shorthair Pointer by God. The world's greatest . . .
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June 04, 2006 08:25 AM EDT --
In a dream, she walks to me. Her eyes glistening in a darkened room. There is history between our two souls but I don't know her name.
We pause before we touch. The pain melts away as fingers intertwine. . . .
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July 05, 2006 12:51 PM EDT --
To write or not to write. That is the dilemma which has troubled me recently.
When I came to gather, I never imagined that I would end up writing for the "Jerry Springer Show" contestants. Yet . . .
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July 24, 2006 10:05 PM EDT --
It's been raining all day. My mind is almost as mildewed as the porch rocker cushions. I am sitting here thinking about my name. I was named Maria Ana after my Aunt Maria Louisa and . . .
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October 01, 2006 11:41 PM EDT --
I would like to be a better writer. I know I don't have the vocabulary. It would take too long to really increase my vocabulary and I know I won't take the time to try. I have always felt that . . .
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December 27, 2006 08:16 PM EST --
Finally after much searching, my parents found a house on a rural dirt road. It was formerly owned by a school teacher named Mrs. Cook. She had lots of cats and the house reeked with the smell.Mom put . . .
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January 09, 2007 11:56 AM EST --
On the broad road to nowhere - in a strange familiar land ,
I chanced upon a March Hare . . .
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January 19, 2007 11:33 PM EST --
Everyone has been flooding my mailbox with reasons they are leaving or considering leaving, or why someone else is leaving. I felt I'd just advertise my opinion to everyone. You don't need to feel . . .
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