Quick Takes, Volume 22

Here's some quick takes. Linked to Conversion Diary.

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Went to the doctor Monday, cholesterol is down a bit. Need to keep up with the long walks. So, I have walked twice since then. This blog will probably host some more pictures of the walk, as taking pictures makes it more interesting.

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Check out Dawn's little blog shop for some neat templates and buttons and such. Dawn is a computer whiz. she designed the logos for the Boring Posts for Saturday. Don't forget to blog tomorrow with the Boring Posts for Saturday.

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I am hoping to have the painting in the great room under way by next week this time. It has only been ten years in the making. If I get that done, then on to carpet and kitchen flooring. Something without the blue, the threadbare and the separating seams would be my preference. I am not the home designer by nature and the shows I've been watching aren't helping.

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I realize that I have reached that point in summer where I am tired of reading, sick of decorating shows, have given up trying to clean everything (anything), haven't started some of the things I have dreamed of doing this summer, am finding it less and less likely that I will get to go out of town on a vacation. I think the only way out is to plan a staycation. But, where to go? I will have to think about that.

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I think I fixed the problem I was having with blogger, not the scheduled posting problem, which seems to crop up in the summer, but the one where my whole post would be gone when I hit the publish post button and wouldn't even be there when I tried the back button, just gone. I had a wee bit of frustration and might have used bad words, if I had known any, luckily, I didn't. I had to clear my cache and cookies. Figures, too many cookies. The story of my life.

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Did you ever wish you could pursue a reader who showed up in stats and only looked at you for zero seconds? Or wish you could find out who they are? I had a viewer from Pearl Harbor, HI the other day, and since I used to live there, I wanted to say--wait, wait, tell me about what you are doing in Hawaii! Somebody from Chicago is clicking in from time to time and I wonder who it is. I love Chicago. I KNOW PEOPLE in Chicago. But, alas, it is a one way street. They see me, I don't see them.

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I was cleaning my office/guest/junk room the other day wondering what in the world I was going to do with some of the stuff when it hit me. OW had said she would take a book I was giving away and nobody else wanted it, so once again I can send a surprise package to the Shoe. If I could do the cross out thing, I would write "load 'o crap" and cross it out, but I can't find my directions for that, so use your imagination, it is crossed out and replaced with fabulous prize package. Sorry, OW, but if you send me anything bigger than a postcard I will send it back. I am trying to get rid of stuff. Stuff just sneaks into my house and I have to send it somewhere. This stuff was begging to go to Oklahoma.