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opinion-aided

I have gotten into the habit of writing frequent letters and emails to my elected officials. Particularly to my congressmen and senators, as these folks are apparently supposed to be the ones making the most amount of difference for me and my state.
One thing that I have noticed in doing this… is that none of [...]

18Feb2008 | Jim | 4 comments | Continued
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Rising City, NE

A fellow ‘Rising’ from the Nashville Area Wine Enthusiast Meetup Group that we’re a part of told me about this place today. A little postage stamp of a town in the middle of nowhere, but it’s got our namesake! A quick look around at the school system, and the white pages, reveals all of 2 [...]

5Jan2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Murfreesboro Athletic Club

the gym melissa and i have a membership with makes it really easy on folks. they are open 24 hours, and they have a ‘cardio theater’ where they play movies while you bike, run, or eliptic? i hate those eliptical machines. i just don’t have the coordination for them… and the treadmill hurts my knees, [...]

4Jan2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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if diets were religions

my dad would be a hindu. he has successfully found salvation (and has frequently lost weight) in just about all of them. he even says ‘any diet can work as long as you stick to it’. if that’s not Dharma, i don’t know what is.
in his time as a radio announcer, i even heard him [...]

4Jan2008 | Jim | 1 comment | Continued
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can’t wait for spring!

we had just gotten into kayaking before winter hit… and only got a couple of chances to take the boats out. we spent some time at the Buffalo River and managed to put in twice at Crazy Horse, where we camped. it was just so relaxing out there on the water!
pictures here! 
this next year i’m [...]

1Jan2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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learn how to read!

someone asked me the other day how i manage to find time to read so much with all of what i’ve got going on, so i thought i might write about some of the ways that i do it.
1) read several books at one time.
i have quite a few books in my ‘currently reading’ list [...]

1Jan2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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GoodReads.Com

a guy i work with turned me on to this the other day…
 www.goodreads.com
it’s a great way to organize your reading library, and there is a plugin available for wordpress that allows you to show your current reading list. (note the icons to the books i’m currently reading on the right of the homepage) it even [...]

31Dec2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Barfield Crescent Park

melissa and i took the dog for a walk to Barfield Crescent park today. we’ve been there before, but never with Güenther. i have to say that i am really enjoying having a dog, and ours is especially fun. we let him off the lead for a bit when we got further into the woods, [...]

31Dec2007 | Jim | 1 comment | Continued
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Adobe onAir Event

I’ll be leaving this evening for the Adobe onAir event in Atlanta. I’ll be there all day tomorrow. onAir is Adobe’s 18 stop bus tour where they code while on the bus, and stop in these cities and show off what they’ve done while on the road. It’s all about Apollo and Flex (Apollo is [...]

13Aug2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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M-Audio Keystation Pro 88

 
I’ve been thinking of getting back into music again. It’s been several years (read that as ‘decade’) since I’ve played piano. I’ve been playing around with B4-II by Native Instruments… which is a pretty cool Hammond B4 emulator. Anyhow… I’ve been looking around at the different options for Midi controllers, and the M-Audio Keystation Pro-88 [...]

11Aug2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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