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Quote: Looking Back

Posted in quotations on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

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Quote: Wisdom and Experience

Posted in quotations on July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
African Proverb

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Commute?!?

Posted in soapbox, tagged on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

OK, you knew I couldn’t let this one pass by. Bear in mind that I am writing this in the days after it actually happened.
I honestly didn’t think the administration would stoop this low. Not only did they use a fall guy for a bad situation, but then commuted his sentence outright.
Sure, this administration really [...]

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Quote: Two-Faced

Posted in quotations on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln

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The Miracle of the S’mores

Posted in musing, tagged , , on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

We went camping on Memorial Day weekend with a group of people from our church. Normally not available to our believers in the use of reason, a miracle occurred.
Four Families shared the group site, which featured a large fire pit. Sunday night we made a roaring bonfire and let it be known there were s’mores [...]

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Quote: Wisdom

Posted in quotations on July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban

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Workplace Contagion

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on July 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »

My reading recently turned up an article Web Worker Daily » How do you Deal with Jerks in the Workplace? «, which quotes a study saying that negative emotions in the workplace spread like wildfire.
I find this apt because I recently survived (barely) a situation where a toxic person came onto our team. Her backstabbing [...]

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