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You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .
Here is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word. That word is ‘UP‘.
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? [...]
The English language is one of the strangest and hardest languages to learn. Do you remember being in school and having your teachers tell you that there were rules to the English language? Then they have the nerve to tell you that there are many exceptions to the rules. What’s the point of the [...]
I was reading an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves" and in it Charles Sykes has 14 rules for students. Having done some research it appears that the first 11 are often attributed to Bill Gates but they are indeed part of the book written [...]
April 20th, 1999 was a day that most people remember. That was the day 2 young men walked into Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado and shot 13 people before committing suicide. A day that went down in American history. That was until yesterday. Almost 8 years to the day.
Yesterday a 23 year old [...]
Here are my thoughts and recollections from the past week:
I had my new technician start on Thursday so I am no longer alone in the department. Now maybe I can start doing some more planning for the future. Spring Break is coming so that means 2 weeks to get some more major work done.
Patti spent [...]
Al Gore’s documentary on global warming “An Inconvenient Truth” seems to have started some controversy in the good state of Washington. It appears that a school board in Seattle has put a “moratorium” on the showing of the movie it its classrooms. The Federal Way School District made it known that this is just a [...]
I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and that Santa brought you everything you deserved.
I was at the store 2 days before Christmas buying some buns for lunch. There was a 14 or 15 year old girl at the till and she rang the buns in for me. $4.49. I handed the young girl [...]
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