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Happy Holidays and Year-end Thoughts

Published December 24th, 2008

Wow, December 24th is upon us!  We were busy dealing with a health scare with one of the dogs in our extended family over the last week, and have completely lost track of time.  Thankfully, for now, everything seems to be okay, and we have a whole evening to wrap presents, catch our breath, and […]

I’m back in action!

Published September 28th, 2008

I just wanted to take a few minutes to thank everyone for their kind emails and comments over the last week.  As many of you know my laptop suddenly died and I was checking the site from my local library until I could get things sorted out and up and running again.  The Toshiba laptop I […]

When technology goes bad…

Published September 20th, 2008

Dear readers,
I’m currently writing this post from a terminal at my public library.  Why?  Two nights ago my laptop started making strange whirring noises and some kind of a disk boot error message came up.  After several attempts at re-starting, it eventually worked.   I had a bad feeling that the hand-me-down laptop from my brother was near the end […]

Congrats Amazon Gift Card Winners!

Published August 17th, 2008

Just a quick post to announce the winners of the Great Galapagos Contest.  Thanks for all of your comments, email subscriptions, and trivia question answers over the last 6 weeks!  I would say that the contest was a great success and the challenge wasn’t fully accomplished, but we still made a great effort considering the […]

Weekly Best Blog Carnival Links

Published July 17th, 2008

This week I participated in four great carnivals, and was honoured to have my posts about my recent career plan change and our family’s own pet insurance plan chosen as editor’s picks in three of them! Without further delay, here are my picks for this week, and also links to the wonderful sites who did the hard work […]

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